Senior Practitioner - Short Term Pathways - West Kent

Kent County Council, Kings Hill, Tonbridge and Malling

Senior Practitioner - Short Term Pathways - West Kent

£49989

Kent County Council, Kings Hill, Tonbridge and Malling

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted 2 weeks ago, 17 Oct | Get your application in now before you miss out!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 82f589a16b4e460680e221ed1032405f

Full Job Description

  • Practice and supervisory service to a designated group of professional staff in the Short-Term Pathways team, ensuring effective safe practice, high quality case work / service and performance in the designated team through the application of professional expertise to the team and wider teams. Ensure adherence to the operating framework for OP/PD clients and related policies, procedures, and practice guidance.
  • Management of a client caseload made up of highly complex / safeguarding cases that require a high level of specialist expertise to ensure that a proportionate assessment is undertaken to identify required needs, risks, and outcomes, to promote enablement and ensure an appropriate level of resource allocation is made to meet people's support needs.
  • The ability to work closely with other social and health colleagues, including the teams Occupational Therapists to promote independence throughout recovery.
  • Our team in Short Term Pathways is creative, energetic, dynamic, and diverse. The team are proud of the high standard of service we provide to our customers at their most vulnerable times. This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification. We are increasingly accessible to the public outside of traditional office hours, as we move towards an 8 am to 8 pm, 7 days a week service to ensure service needs are met.

    We are looking for motivated, experienced professionals who are interested in working within the Short-Term Pathways, and keen to work with Acute, Community Hospitals. The successful applicant also needs to be flexible in their approach and committed to working in an integrated team and ready to embrace new ways of working, to help further shape our services.

    Work that works for you and us - let's talk flexibility! KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work. Please note - if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.