Advanced Practitioner Support and Safeguarding

The safeguarding teams are working to focus on creative problem solving and keeping children and families together. There are 14 safeguarding teams, across Northamptonshire, each team consists of a Team Manager, Advanced Practitioner, who holds complex cases and supports 5 or 6 Social Workers and a Newly Qualified Social Worker within their team. We are supporting excellence in Social Work practice, with a signs of safety based approach, and clear personal development opportunities for the right candidates.

What will you be doing?
The Advanced Practitioner will be confident in their analysis and decision making to deliver purposeful and effective social care. You will be skilled in supervision, performance management and improvement techniques to ensure high quality of practice.

Both roles the candidate will have a strong desire to develop social work expertise to support the Children's Trust with its improvement journey.

About you
You will be a qualified social worker, who has completed your ASYE, and have the commitment and passion to be at the forefront of delivering best practice and support to children and families. You will be able to manage a complex and diverse caseload to the required standards.

Our benefits
We are committed to continuous improvement, building a skilled, knowledgeable, and flexible workforce alongside promoting innovation and creativity whilst keeping children, young people and families at the heart of all we do.

Northamptonshire Children's Trust was established in November 2020 to deliver Children's Services to the newly established North and West Northants County Councils. The Trust is wholly owned and funded but operationally independent from the Councils; this provides the organisation with unique opportunities to explore new ways of working and to be more agile and adaptable in its approach to service delivery. We are developing a culture that allows the very highest quality of professional practice to flourish and evolve, delivering at the cutting edge of new innovation., About NCT

Northamptonshire children's trust delivers children's social care and targeted early help services on behalf of the council. We are on a journey to improve services through Northamptonshire Children's Trust.

We take our responsibility seriously alongside everyone who works with and cares about children and young people. We are committed to do all that we can to ensure children, young people and families live safely, are safe, fulfil their potential, develop resilience and enjoy good health and wellbeing. This includes being involved and respected at home, at school, in their communities and, most importantly, being part of all decisions that affect them. We want to send a clear message about how important their welfare is to us and how important they are to our future.

Our vision is to put children, young people and families at the heart of all we do, in every decision we make and every action we take. We are ambitious for all Children, Young People and Families of Northamptonshire and we have a critical role to making a difference to their outcomes.

Our ambition is to make a sustainable improvement to the lives of children, young people and families

Working with key partners within local communities, we aspire to deliver outstanding social care services for children and young people in the county, ensuring families receive early help to prevent difficulties escalating, and creating the conditions for social work to flourish.

We really value our workforce and offer you a great benefits package including:

• 2 Day Induction Programme


• 2 days Signs of Safety training (social care colleagues)


• £6,000Welcome Bonus


• Retention bonus


• Social Work England registration costs


• Flexible working practices, including home working, flexi time and job share


• The opportunity to personally contribute to improving the service


• Monthly high quality supervision


• Up to 28 day's annual leave plus bank holidays (with service rises to 32 days plus bank holidays)


• Opportunity to buy back up to 5 weeks of additional holiday each year


• Subsidised local authority Pension Scheme


• Additional 12 weeks of maternity leave at 50%


• Employee discount schemes


• Up to £8,000 relocation allowance


• Signs of Safety training


• An onsite academy delivering a variety of learning & development opportunities


• Heavily subsidised city centre parking


• Regular engagement opportunities with the CEO