Senior Practitioner

Job Description

The Service & Team:

Following the successful promotion of the existing post holder, we are recruiting for a permanent, full-time Senior Practitioner: Autism within the Learning Disability and Autism Our Futures Team. This position provides an exciting opportunity for a Social Worker ready for their next challenge.

The Post Holder Will Work Collaboratively Across The Integrated Care System To Develop a Social Work Practitioner Response Within Adult Social Care In Order To

• Improve the workforce understanding and acceptance of Autism within Adult Social Care and partner agencies within the Local Authority
• Improve the experience of transitions/preparing for adulthood for Autistic young people
• To support Autistic people into the pathways into employment enabling them to navigate the support to maximise economic and social wellbeing
• To work in partnership with Cornwall's health providers to improve and tackle health inequalities
• To build the right support for Autistic people and the families in their communities, with particular focus for Autistic people who have been or at risk of inpatient Mental Health care

To build and strengthen partnership to better support Autistic people who are in contact with, or at risk of entering into the criminal justice system

This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

This position will be subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check.

Working Pattern

This is a permanent full time role. Flexible working requests will be considered.

What You’ll Need To Succeed

You must be a qualified social worker registered with Social Work England, and have prior experience of working with Autistic people. The role aims to implement and embed Social Work Practice to ensure that Cornwall Council Adult Social Care works in line with the National Strategy for Autistic Children, Young People and Adults.

The post holder will need to possess leadership and management skills in terms of both processing case work, embedding the role within the wider integrated system and to effect change within Social Work practice.

This post is a permanent position and is currently advertised on our recruitment website where you can find the role profile and closing dates.

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert.

What You’ll Get In Return

Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our Core Employee Rewards And Benefits Include

• a competitive salary.
• a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
• a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.
  
  

Additional Information

This role attracts a market supplement of £3,500 per year, for three years

Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role

The full role profile is attached here

For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Kate Dilworth kate.dilworth@cornwall.gov.uk

Application Process

Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process .

Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careers@cornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.

About Us

Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Working here - Cornwall Council

We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options .

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce tha

t is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender reassignment status, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.

Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.