Advanced Practitioner - MASH

Wirral Council is a place where you can genuinely make a difference, guided by strong organisational values that shape everything we do. Our values - ambitious, professional, resident-focused and accountable, act as our organisational DNA, influencing how we work, lead and support one another every day. We take pride in delivering great services, acting with integrity, building positive relationships, and always putting residents first, creating a supportive and inclusive culture where everyone can “be the best we can be”. With our beautiful surroundings, ambitious future plans, and a commitment to empowering staff to #BeTheDifference, Wirral Council offers an inspiring environment to grow your career and make a lasting impact.

About the Role: An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Advanced Practitioner Social Worker to join our Adult Safeguarding Team in Wirral. We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and self-motivated person to work as a key leader of our team ensuring the highest quality of professional social care practice is delivered in line with legislation, policies, procedures and best practice. If you have a passion for making safeguarding personal and protecting vulnerable people from harm through a joined up interagency approach, this post gives you the opportunity to express an interest in becoming part of the MASH Team and to be integral in supporting the development of its guiding principles.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensuring a co-ordinated multi-agency approach which allows early identification of threat, risk and harm and a focus on early intervention at the right level and at the right time.
• Adopting a making safeguarding personal approach to manage individual needs and improve the user experience and outcomes of those receiving safeguarding services.
• Speeding up informed, consistent safeguarding decision making.
• Working with key stakeholders (including Police, Health and Strategic partners) at the start of an enquiry and during collaboration of safeguarding services.
• Reducing the number of inappropriate referrals into safeguarding functions and making the right onward referral decisions to the most appropriate agency as early as possible.
• Ensuring that the business intelligence arising from MASH services works together to improve consistency, address gaps and duplication in service provision, and improve outcomes for those in need of services.
• Creating an environment which encourages feedback and shared learning across agencies to improve service provision.
• Providing a consultation service to professionals seeking safeguarding advice about thresholds, referrals and early assessments.
• Providing professional supervision to several Experienced Social Workers and Care Navigators.
• Driving and supporting improvements within the service, contributing to better outcomes for the people we serve by upholding and promoting high professional practice standards.

About the Candidate: If you are an experienced safeguarding professional who thrives on fast-paced decision making, high-quality analysis, collaboration and problem solving, we would like to hear from you.

This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS check, including a check of the relevant Barred List(s). Eligibility to work in the UK will be verified in the final stages of the selection process. All candidates must either already have a right to work in the UK before commencing employment or meet the Home Office criteria for Visa sponsorship.

Working at Wirral: Our values are more than just pieces of paper on our walls! We believe in ensuring staff are well looked after, and staff wellbeing is a priority for us. We’re serious about recognising and rewarding people for the great things they do. You’ll benefit from our track record of developing, growing and investing in our people. We have a range of staff benefits including staff discounts, enrolment into the local government pension scheme, immediate life cover and ill-health protection. We have a strong flexible working approach, hybrid working, family-friendly employment initiatives and an annual leave package starting with 28 days leave plus public holidays.

We embrace diversity in our workforce and recognise it is critical to our success. We support an inclusive culture that champions differences and nurtures a sense of belonging. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds, who share our values and our commitment to inclusion to apply for roles with us.

If you’d like us to do anything differently during the recruitment process to make it barrier-free and as accessible as possible please contact recruitment@wirral.gov.uk.

Please note that in accordance with the Council’s policy, employees who are in a formal redeployment situation will be considered in the first instance for all vacancies. Applications will be accepted until midnight on the closing date. We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the specified date should we receive sufficient applications.