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Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

Advanced Practitioner (Part Time)

Business ServicesCPV 79000000
Value£44k
Deadline15 Sept 2023
Published11 Sept 2023
RegionWest Midlands
Timeline
Published 11 Sept 2023ClosedCloses 15 Sept 2023
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£44ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

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Job Title Advanced Practitioner Rate of Pay: £19.85 per hour (Inside IR35) Hours: 18.5 hours per week Location: Hybrid/Sandwell Council House, Oldbury, B69 3DE Start Date: ASAP Contract type: Agency, 12 weeks from start date Job Description and Personnel Specification are attached, which also provides more information above the role.

Brief description: We are looking for 1 x temporary agency Social Care Lead Officer, for 3 months, 18.5 hours a week (Wed (PM), Thursday & Friday) to cover the Young adults Team (YAT) in the Adult Social Care while we recruit a permanent worker to fill that post.

Person should be a qualified Social Worker with Adults Social Work management experience, to bring your knowledge, skills, and attributes to lead a team of qualified and unqualified staff to make a difference to the lives of young people of Sandwell.

You will need to be motivated and flexible with high professional standards and sound knowledge and experience of current legislation and practice including the Care Act 2014, Safeguarding Continuing Health care, Community DOLS/LPS and Mental Capacity Act 2005, and Mental Health Act.

Have knowledge of working with young people, transition from children to adult service/adulthood and be able to engage with partners such as Children's Services, Health services, housing etc. in the process You will be expected to support your staff to work with vulnerable adults with mental health issues, learning disability, physical disability, and older people.

You need to be able to work with a diverse group of individuals and partner agencies.

You will work alongside a supportive and experienced team of managers with regular supervision and development opportunities.

Key features of this role: *Managing the day to day operational business of the team *Ensuring the successful delivery of team and service objectives *Managing expectations in terms of the Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, statutory safeguarding duties and corporate policies *Driving the improvement and performance frameworks, with regular staff supervision. *Implement, monitor and review the use of Prevention and Re-ablement services and the use of community offers CVs required urgently please.

JD and PS attached.

Please can the agencies send over a CV, 2x up to date references and a copy of Terms and Conditions.

You will also need to include your agency on cost details to each submission.

Stated rates must be inclusive of all known costs.

An Enhanced Adults Barring DBS check is required for this role.

Please note this advert is also out with our Master Vendor You will receive further information regarding invoice terms if your candidate is appointed to this role.

Invoices must be sent electronically on a weekly basis to templink_1@sandwell.gov.uk along with your workers authorised timesheet supplied by your agency.

Payments are then released 14 days from the date of the in...

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Person should be a qualified Social Worker

Person should be a qualified Social Worker with Adults Social Work management experience, to bring your knowledge, skills, and attributes to lead a team of qualified and unqualified staff to make a difference to the lives of young people of Sandwell.

02

You will need to be motivated

You will need to be motivated and flexible with high professional standards and sound knowledge and experience of current legislation and practice including the Care Act 2014, Safeguarding Continuing Health care, Community DOLS/LPS and Mental Capacity Act 2005, and Mental Health Act.

03

Have knowledge of working with young people

Have knowledge of working with young people, transition from children to adult service/adulthood and be able to engage with partners such as Children's Services, Health services, housing etc. in the process.

04

You will be expected to support your

You will be expected to support your staff to work with vulnerable adults with mental health issues, learning disability, physical disability, and older people.

05

You need to be able to work

You need to be able to work with a diverse group of individuals and partner agencies.

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