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Hampton's Resourcing
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London, Greater London
Advanced Practitioner - Adults
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Job Type: Full-time |
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Salary: £30 per hour |
Overview
Advanced Practitioner Adult Social Care London Purpose of the role Provide professional support, leadership and line management/supervise to staff that form part of an integrated multi-disciplinary team that includes qualified and unqualified social worker, occupational therapists, rehabilitation workers and related support services. Provide leadership on risk and safeguarding and professional social work matters and to promote personalised care pathways ensuring choice and control for all eligible individuals. Work with others to influence and shape the local environment, to promote social inclusion and accessibility and ensure that identified needs are understood individually, by locality and fed into strategic commissioning. Monitor budgets and performance to ensure that Business Plan targets are met. Promote the benefits of, and shape, integrated working with health colleagues. Assist Team Managers in the day-to-day operational management of the assessment and care management service. Alert the line manager to any increase in risks to individual service users on a regular basis, or immediately as required, and will seek advice on appropriate action. Take accountability for the quality of your work and take responsibility for maintaining and developing your professional knowledge and skills and contributing to the learning and development of others in accordance with their relevant professional body’s Code of Practice. Main Duties and Responsibilities Ensuring that staff provide the highest possible standard of service within available resources to promote the independence, dignity, choice, self-esteem and wellbeing of eligible Customers Managing a high-quality front-line duty service, ensuring appropriate access to the public, any referring agents and other professionals and ensuring that emergency situations are dealt with in a timely manner. Ensuring that service users and carers needs are identified, and appropriate support arrangements are made to a consistently high professional standard, within available resources Ensuring that all support plans meet assessed support needs and make best use of available resources to achieve agreed outcomes. Monitoring implementation of packages of care and support and adjust them as appropriate and to ensure that individual care packages, including funding arrangements for any services, are thoroughly reviewed in accordance with statutory requirements and Council policy to ensure highest quality of service and best value Authorising care packages up to agreed limits and screening for suitability of residential/nursing home placements where necessary Working jointly with health and other key agencies; ensuring implementation of CPA, risk assessments, person centred planning, health action plans and compliance with clinical governance, as required Ensuring that all individuals’ support needs are met through the use of personal budgets and the promotion of Self Directed Support. Promoting excellence in customer care amongst all staff.