Advanced Practitioner

**The job itself**:
The East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Children’s Services have been rated GOOD by Ofsted following our recent ILACS inspection. Since the last inspection in 2019, the leadership team has made significant and sustained changes in all the practice and leadership areas identified for improvement. Through extensive engagement with external partners and scrutineers, the improvements in the service mean that children and young people in East Riding receive a timely and effective response and intervention when they need it. Senior leaders and councillors are clear about what their strengths are and what still needs to be improved in service delivery, and their self-evaluation is accurate. They have ambitious plans and have secured significant investment to develop their services further as part of their continuous improvement journey. Senior leaders lead by example, and this has supported practitioners to embed the relational model of practice with the families they work with.

A great and exciting opportunity has arisen within the Participation, Innovation, and Improvement portfolio for an Advanced Practitioner (non-social work qualified) to support our continued improvement activity in driving strength based and relational based practice in our work with children, young people and their networks. The role will primarily work directly in a modelling and supportive approach and indirectly in a consultative approach with practitioners within the five portfolios across the Children and Young People Safeguarding & Support Services (CYPSSS) and Early Help and Prevention Portfolio but with particular focus on those areas within the practice system which are primarily staffed by non-social work qualified practitioners. This is a one year fix-term/secondment opportunity due to the current post holder moving to another post within the practice system.

The role will be based within our Effective Practice Learning and Development service and will work alongside two social work qualified effective practice consultants, one non social work qualified effective practice consultant, one senior learning and skills officer and four learning and skills officers to develop, facilitate and embed our holistic training, learning and development offer across the holistic workforce. The role will also work closely with those staff based within the Effective Practice Academy and our Quality of Practice Service.

We are looking for a practitioner with a passion about strength based approaches and forming a relational based approach to securing good outcomes through supporting practitioners providing interventions to children, young people and their networks. We are looking to develop and build upon your experience of working with children and young people in an exciting role that is central to the development of a culture of driving up practice and improving the lived experience for those children and young people we work with. This is a specialist role in a large and extremely ambitious service, working across multiple portfolios, multiple complexities and with multiple users and partners.

**Our model**

**_ ‘You can, I can, We can’_**

We have created a bespoke practice model that reflects and connects our vision, our value base and our behaviour as one East Riding of Yorkshire approach to working with children, young people and their families, which is nurtured and grown from within East Riding of Yorkshire CYPSSS and owned by our workforce.

We remain committed to Signs of Safety as a practice framework, but this will be set within a much wider, values based, model of practice that clearly connects Signs of Safety much more clearly with the East Riding value base, and our overall approach to making and sustaining relationships with children, families and communities.

Without a well embedded model, there is nothing to centre our practice on to ensure that, while the work may be different, all our teams are grounded in the same values, beliefs, theories and approaches. Having a well-developed practice model helps to create a common language for the service and enables everyone to understand how we go about doing the right things, in the right way and for the right reasons for children and their families.

You will contribute to the Quality of Practice agenda within the Directorate to help embed and promote a culture that leads to high quality and impact focused outcomes for children, young people and their families in East Riding of Yorkshire.

You will be required to work with service leads, front line managers and front line practitioners to agreed outcome focused requirements in driving up practice across CYPSSS.

You will demonstrate good experience of front-line practice, within a children’s practice system with an ability to identify what good practice looks like.

You will have advanced working knowledge of childcare legislative framework, strength based and restorative based approaches, as well as,