Advanced Practitioner
| Posting date: | 03 October 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 November 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE3 8RA |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6237 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £43,860 - £47,829 per annum, plus market premium
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 15th October 2025
Interview Date(s): 21st October 2025
About the Role
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Practice Excellence Team as an Advanced Practitioner. This role is a key part of our offer to support and develop the practice of colleagues working within Children’s Social Care. You be working within a team including the Principal Social Worker, Learning and Improvement Managers and other Advanced Practitioners. Leicestershire values creating an environment where good practice can flourish and a vital part of that is having a responsive and supportive team such as Practice Excellence to support practitioners and managers across the service in their everyday practice. You would be a link to our Locality based teams and will:
- Provide 1:1 support to practitioners across teams in children’s social care – this could include reflective discussions, helping to develop safety plans, supporting on challenging visits or supporting in chairing network meetings.
- Support PODs across children’s social care teams using the group supervision process to reflect and explore ways of working with children and families promoting an environment of curiosity.
- Support the wellbeing and retention of a skilled and dedicated workforce.
- Take part in the delivery and organisation of our Signs of Safety training offer – this includes the 2-day core training, and also half-day workshops.
- Take part in the delivery and organisation of our trauma informed practice training offer – including the 1-day foundation training and then specific workshops.
- Take part in supporting newly qualified social workers via the ASYE program and international social workers.
- Take part in other key activities such as annual conferences, virtual practice forum events, recruitment activity and quality assurance activity.
An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.
For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement.
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
- Be a qualified social worker registered with Social Work England and have a high level of experience in children’s social work, with substantial breadth of practice and depth of experience across a range of areas in children’s social work including child protection, complex care or risk management.
- Have demonstratable skilled application of knowledge and understanding of the Signs of Safety methodology with being able to describe how practical application of the tools and disciplines are used to affect change.
- Have evidence of coaching / mentoring and supporting workers to develop their practice and confidence
- Have experience of training others
- Have experience of challenging inadequate practice to support improvement.
- Have extensive knowledge of key areas of social work practice including safeguarding children and managing risk.
- Have the ability to proactively develop strong and productive relationships with a wide range of colleagues.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual’s personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Mandy Goodenough – Principal Social Worker
Telephone: 0116 305 9849
Email: mandy.goodenough@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity, and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services, we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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