Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Advanced Clinical Practitioner

£49,056 - £55,323 per annum

Permanent, Full – time, 36 hours per week

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can‑do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

We live by five core values:
Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It’s about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem‑solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.

This is an exciting opportunity to become part of the Specialist Intensive Support Programme. We are a multidisciplinary team benefit ting from the joint knowledge and experience of parenting practitioners, advanced social workers, clinical psychologist, and systemic family therapists.

In the role of advanced social worker in SISP you will be afforded the opportunity to hone skills in systemic practice and develop your own area of specialist knowledge/expertise as a clinical social worker.

The post requires you to work closely and collaboratively with other team members and to take a lead in compiling specialist parenting assessments for court and in pre‑proceedings. There is further opportunity to develop your skills in offering case consultation, supervision and working creatively in time‑limited child‑focused interventions aimed at preventing children from becoming LAC.

In SISP your professional skills can be enhanced and developed whilst working as part of a highly motivated and supportive team where all contributions are valued, and supervision and training is prioritised.

SISP is a well‑established multidisciplinary team providing a wide range of services to children and their families in the London Borough of Hounslow. The team has been established in the borough for over twelve years. It is positioned within Children’s Specialist Services. SISP offers specialist interventions to families i.e., independent parenting assessments for court or PLO; psychological assessments, parenting support and therapeutic services led by the systemic family therapist.

The team utilises a range of evidence‑based practices in their work, PAMs Together and Apart…