Senior Practitioner

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Job reference VAC
008980 Date posted 23/10/2026 Final date to receive applications 08/11/2026 Location City Hall College Green City Centre Bristol BS1 5TR
Salary BG13: £48,738 - £51,928 Package Blank Contractual hours 37 Basis Full time Job category/type Social Care Attachments Job  Person

Full Time, Permanent This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Practitioner to join our team as we continue with our multidisciplinary offer for young people transitioning between children’s services and adults. We are a multi-disciplinary team working with Social Workers, Occupational Therapists and Social Care Practitioners.

As a Senior Practitioner in the service, you will be an important part of the leadership team.

You will work alongside the Senior Practitioners and support the Team Manager to further implement the Transition Hub model and provide day to day consultation, direction, and support to the practitioners.

You will need to have a flexible, adaptable and strong clinical reasoning skills. Along with being able to problem sole and manage competing demands and priorities.

You may carry a small caseload of challenging and complex cases and lead by example to model best practice. You must be legally literate in the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act, Safeguarding and other key relevant legislation.

The Young Adults Transitions Service are a citywide team who can work with young people with additional needs from age 14-25 to support them to be as independent as possible as they reach adulthood.

The team operate across the city and further afield (where the local authority continues to hold funding responsibility). We complete Care Act assessments and support our young person through their transition into adulthood.

We also complete support planning to support the commissioning of services to meet the young person’s needs, and we will utilise other sources of non-commissioned support like external agencies, charitable organisations and provide technology and equipment to maximise young people’s independence. We work alongside families and carers where we can as we understand the value in supporting a whole family approach.

The teamwork from a multi-disciplinary perspective and work in partnership with a wide range of agencies and professionals including health, education, children’s services, housing, provider services and the police. You will receive regular profession specific supervision.

A registered Social Worker or Occupational Therapist – ideally you will have previous leadership experience, experience working in the community or have an interest or previous experiences of working with young adults/transitions services. (advantageous but not essential).

We would expect you to be working within the statutory structure of the Care Act 2014 legislation, undertaking Care Act Assessments, Carer assessments, Mental Capacity Assessments and Best Interest Assessments.

You will work closely with internal and external agencies and departments across all Adult Social Care. You will collaborate with partners across Children’s, Education and SEND partnerships.

You will have a strong passion for Equalities and Inclusion to ensure people who draw on care and support are strengthened from their individuality. You will have a varied caseload with complexity.

You would need to be able to travel across the city either from home or from City Hall where the service is based. Currently, working from home is permitted but you would be expected to work from the office a minimum of 2 days per week.

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