Advanced Social Care Practitioner; SW

How you'll make a difference

As an Advanced Social Care Practitioner (Social Work), you will support adults to maintain independence, safety and wellbeing within a collaborative, multi-disciplinary environment. Playing a key role in reviewing care and support arrangements, you will ensure plans remain outcome-focused, proportionate and compliant, while promoting choice and control for the people we support.

Using a strengths-based and person-centred approach, you will deliver statutory adult social work and work collaboratively with partners to ensure individuals receive the appropriate support from the right provider, enabling them to live as independently as possible.

• It will be your responsibility to manage a caseload, ensuring timely, quality reviews, needs assessments and support planning.
• Drawing on your experience and knowledge, you will review and adapt care and support plans to ensure they are strengths-based, proportionate, outcome-focused and promote independence, wellbeing and choice.
• A key aspect of the role will be working collaboratively with a wide range of colleagues across different functions and partner organisations.
• Using your professional judgement, you will manage risk and complexity appropriately, recognising and responding to safeguarding concerns in line with policies and procedures.
• You will maintain accurate, up-to-date and confidential records, ensuring all information is recorded clearly and stored securely.
• As an Advanced Social Care Practitioner, you will also support the day-to-day management of the team by ensuring staff have clear work programmes, receive appropriate support, and are provided with ongoing training and development opportunities.

• It is essential you have 2 years’ experience in a relevant area of statutory or voluntary sector work in the health or social care field and hold an NVQ Level 4 (or equivalent).
• You will have a sound understanding of relevant legislation, policies and procedures, including safeguarding.
• You will have the ability to gather information, contribute to assessments and complete high-quality reviews.
• We are looking for someone who can commit to person-centred, values-based practice, aligned with strengths-based and proportionate approaches.
• Given the nature of the role, you must have excellent communication skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships and engage confidently with adults with varying needs.

• You will be expected to travel throughout the authority and surrounding area so you must have a full, valid driving licence with regular access to a vehicle or have an alternative means of travel.
• Business insurance will need to be added to your insurance policy and you can claim back mileage expenses.
• Please note that due to the nature of this role, it is a requirement of employment that an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is obtained.
• This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Badminton Road, working from home and working within the community.

Interviews will be held on 25th August 2026.

• As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts
  , including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
• We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
• If you want develop a specialism, you’ll get the support you need and your cases will be aligned with your areas of expertise.
• What’s special here is the strength of the team ethos
  . We are a relatively small local authority, so managers know staff well. They can plan their services to ensure teams have manageable caseloads and have effective supervision so feel supported to make decisions which are right for the people they work with.
• We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the safety and welfare of…