Opus People Solutions on behalf of Northampton Children's Trust have an exciting opportunity for a Advanced Practitioner to join their Support and Safeguarding team.

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The safeguarding teams are working to focus on creative problem solving and keeping children and families together. There are 14 safeguarding teams, across Northamptonshire, each team consists of a Team Manager, Advanced Practitioner, who holds complex cases and supports 5 or 6 Social Workers and a Newly Qualified Social Worker within their team. We are supporting excellence in Social Work practice, with a signs of safety based approach, and clear personal development opportunities for the right candidates.

Location of the roles are ;- One Angel Square, Daventry, Wellingborough.
Salary: £47,664 to £49,753

The Advanced Practitioner will be confident in their analysis and decision making to deliver purposeful and effective social care.  You will be skilled in supervision, performance management and improvement techniques to ensure high quality of practice.

Benefits

We are committed to continuous improvement, building a skilled, knowledgeable, and flexible workforce alongside promoting innovation and creativity whilst keeping children, young people and families at the heart of all we do.

We really value our workforce and offer you a great benefits package including:

• 2 Day Induction Programme

• 2 days Signs of Safety training (social care colleagues)

• £6,000 Welcome Bonus

• Retention bonus

• Social Work England registration costs

• Flexible working practices, including home working, flexi time and job share

• The opportunity to personally contribute to improving the service

• Monthly high quality supervision

• Up to 28 day’s annual leave plus bank holidays (with service rises to 32 days plus bank holidays)

• Opportunity to buy back up to 5 weeks of additional holiday each year

• Subsidised local authority Pension Scheme

• Additional 12 weeks of maternity leave at 50%

• Employee discount schemes

• Up to £8,000 relocation allowance

• Signs of Safety training

• An onsite academy delivering a variety of learning & development opportunities

• Heavily subsidised city centre parking

• Regular engagement opportunities with the CEO

If you thrive to make a difference and this is the role for you, then we would love to hear from you.