We have an exciting opportunity for an Advance Practitioner – Better Together Lead position, in the Learning Academy.
The Learning Academy is an innovative approach to enabling practice excellence and ensuring recruitment, retention and development of outstanding practitioners. The Tower Hamlets Learning Academy is a centre that seeks to influence and build the organisational culture to achieve excellent outcomes for children and families. The key objectives of the Learning Academy are:
Relationships at the heart of practice – embedding the ‘Better Together’ Practice Framework
Enabling Practice Excellence- High value and byte sized accessible training, coaching, mentoring and practice improvement drives
Ensuring quality of practice – relational approach to audits to enable learning and practice excellence
Relational approach to recruitment and retention – the first three year programme for newly qualified social workers and career progression pathways for experienced practitioners
Creating a culture of innovation – supporting and enabling practitioners to innovate and work with services users to find solutions
Key Responsibilities
The Advanced Practitioner lead for ‘Better Together’ is a new role that has been created to strategically support and enable the embedding of the practice framework across the Supporting Families Division. The key expectations of the role are
To lead on embedding the Practice Framework (Better Together) across Supporting Families Division
To ensure effective training, mentoring/coaching and professional support to social workers, managers and senior management to embed the agreed Practice Framework.
The post holder will be proactive and raise practice standards as a champion across key practice priorities set out by the service leaders in line with the Practice Framework.
To contribute to the CSC quality assurance framework, delivering remedial practice learning where required.
To contribute to the workforce development strategy, raising practice standards.
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The post holders will be based in the Learning Academy and will report to the Principal Social Worker/Head of Learning Academy.
About you
You will be an experienced social worker who understands the service needs and good practice across Early Help, Young People’s Services, Youth Justice and Social Care.
You will have a good understanding of practice frameworks and how to embed it across a large organization.
You will be a good communicator, who feels confident supporting others to improve their practice
You will be at ease designing and delivering training, and will be able to respond to competing demands
You will work in accordance with national and local policies and procedures, and use the law, regulatory and statutory guidance to inform practice decisions.
You will prepare and produce a variety of high-quality professional reports and guidance documents and will be able to deliver presentations to staff and partners.
You will work as a strategic lead with schools, health, and partner agencies and represent the Council at a range of meetings, proceedings and reviews as required.
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Tower Hamlets offers the best of London in one borough.
We believe the best place for children is to be raised within their own families, immediate or wider, wherever it is safe and appropriate to do so. Social Workers are at the core of our work with children and families. Our approach is about enabling social workers to build relationships and strengthen families by working with people in a compassionate and understanding way.
We are determined to continue our journey of improvement and deliver outstanding services for children and families of Tower Hamlets, and our offer to staff includes:
The opportunity to work in a richly diverse, challenging and supportive inner London Borough
Competitive remuneration package
Investing in the workforce with end-to-end career support
A manageable and diverse caseload and good quality reflective supervision
Steps to Success, coaching, and bespoke learning and development support from the Learning Academy to develop your practice, with a clear framework for career development and progression into leadership.
Travel card/season ticket loan, Cycle to Work scheme, Local Government Pension Scheme
Opportunities for agile/flexible working
Discounted gym membership, access to free eye test, rent deposit scheme and & You at Work discounts as well as many other benefits
Generous annual leave package and wellbeing service
Smarter Working with new modern technology
If you have any questions about applying for this role, please contact Saima Tahsin, Project Officer at Saima.Tahsin@towerhamlets.gov.uk. For an informal discussion about working in Supporting Families at Tower Hamlets please contact Sam Nair, our Principal Social Worker at Sam.Nair@towerhamets.gov.uk