Advanced Practitioner

People
Children in Our Care
Advanced Practitioner

**Ref**: 000940
**Contract**: Permanent.
**Salary**: £45,718 to £49,764 per annum (Grade 9)
**Hours**:36.66 per week
**Based**: Floor 8, OMBC Offices, Childrens Social Care, Spindles Shopping Centre, West Street, Oldham, OL1 1LF
**Closing Date**: Monday 25th August 2025
**Shortlisting & Interview Dates**: TBC.

**Role Overview**:

- To have responsibility for a smaller caseload, including cases which can be of a complex and challenging nature, and to provide high quality interventions for those vulnerable children and young people which ensure their safety, and ensure they achieve improved outcomes.
- To work alongside partner agencies to undertake various assessments, to co-produce and implement plans, and to lead on evaluating and assessing progress, to ensure the best possible outcomes for children, young people and their families.
- Alongside a smaller caseload you will be present to support staff, including reflective and group supervision, giving advice and guidance to staff as a team and as individuals.
- Assisting the team manager in making sense of quality assurance feedback and data, promoting a learning culture sharing good practice and strengths as well as identifying areas for development and finding ways to ensure consistent high quality and practice improvement.
- To model continual professional development and be accountable for the promotion of social work good practice and learning from research.

Oldham offers a development pathway for Advanced Practitioners to develop their leadership skillset, which includes a point of competence recognition and approval to authorise elements of our service delivery.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Lead and co-work cases and specific areas of work that are complex and sensitive, ensuring high quality service delivery. Chair multi-agency meetings as appropriate.
- Drive practice improvement plans, and lead on action plans for consistently good practice. Leading a culture of high support and high challenge, identify issues interfering with delivering an efficient service, and inform managers and the team promoting solution-finding and opportunities for improvement. Assist the development, implementation and monitoring of quality assurance standards.
- Provide shadowing and mentoring for colleagues to support their learning and training. Also, offer advice and guidance to help develop their knowledge and with regard to decision-making for work with children and their families; demonstrate robust analysis and evidence-based planning, with due hypothesising and critique of possible solutions. Accompany less experienced workers in new and complex experiences such as court attendance, fostering panel, legal gateway and Access to Resources Panel.

**Key Requirements**:

- Experience of undertaking accurate and sensitive assessments of Service Users, Carers and Families, where their situation could be complex and high-risk
- Skills in engaging Children and Young People, hearing their voice and gathering their views to understand the child’s lived experience, and maximising opportunities for participation.
- Detailed knowledge of the relevant legislation, codes of practice, National Guidelines and Government initiatives connected with service delivery in this area of social work

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and therefore expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

**About Us**:
We want Oldham to have vibrant, safe neighbourhoods where people are proud to live with opportunities for healthier, more fulfilled lives; and a sustainable, thriving economy. As we look to the future, the challenges may be significant, but so are the opportunities. We’ve identified three missions with our residents and partners, focusing on what will deliver the biggest impact:
A Great Place to Live, Healthier, Happier Lives, and Green and Growing.

**Our Values and Behaviours**:
By driving innovation, investing in our people, and championing our communities, we will ensure that Oldham continues to be a place where everyone can live their best life. To support this, we have three core values which define who we are and how we operate. These are ‘**Proud, Ambitious,**and** Together’**, and they shape our culture, inform our decisions, and inspire us to deliver on our commitments to the people of Oldham.

We have translated these values into five behaviours which guide our actions and are the standards we hold ourselves to, day in and day out:

- Work with a resident focus
- Support local leaders
- Committed to the borough
- Delivery high performance
- Take ownership and drive change

You can find out more about our values and behaviours on our greater.jobs Oldham page

**Our Benefits Package**:
At Oldham Council we offer a great benefits package for our employees, which includes the following:

- 25 days annual leave which increases after 5 and 10-y