Advanced Practitioner - Children's ServicesCity of Wolverhampton Council
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£33.30 per hour Umbrella | Agency Opportunity
Position: Advanced Practitioner - Children's Services
Location: City of Wolverhampton Council (Flexible Working)
Pay Rate: £33.30 per hour Umbrella
Contract Type: Agency
DBS: Enhanced DBS required
Are you an experienced social work professional passionate about driving excellence in practice and improving outcomes for children and families? City of Wolverhampton Council is seeking a highly skilled Advanced Practitioner to join its Children's Services team and play a pivotal role in shaping and developing high-quality social work practice across the Families Directorate.
This is an exciting opportunity for a confident practitioner who thrives on supporting others, influencing practice, and leading continuous improvement whilst remaining closely connected to frontline social work.
The Role
As an Advanced Practitioner, you will be a recognised expert within Children's Services, providing leadership, mentoring, and professional guidance to social workers across the service. Working alongside Team Managers, Service Managers, the Principal Social Worker and wider partners, you will drive best practice and help embed high standards across assessment, planning, safeguarding, and intervention services.
You will play a key role in developing practitioners through mentoring, reflective practice, coaching, training delivery, and quality assurance activity, ensuring children and young people receive the highest standard of support and protection.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide mentoring, coaching and reflective supervision opportunities to social workers, including those completing ASYE and CPD programmes.
- Model and promote exceptional social work practice across Children's Services.
- Support practitioners in developing skills in assessment, analysis, planning, decision-making, direct work with children and risk management.
- Lead reflective practice sessions, workshops and training programmes to support continuous professional development.
- Act as a specialist consultant on evidence-informed social work practice, legislation, policy and research developments.
- Support quality assurance processes to improve the quality and impact of social work interventions.
- Work closely with managers to drive service improvements and contribute to practice development initiatives. xgikmsk
- Assist with the implementation of local improvement plans and strategies to strengthen frontline practice.
- Support less experienced practitioners through co-working, case c...
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