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Advanced Practitioner

Posting date:	18 February 2026
Salary:	£47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year
Additional salary information:	£47810.00 - £54710.00 a year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	25 February 2026
Location:	Plymouth, PL6 5DH
Company:	NHS Jobs
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	B9832-2026-NM-10167

Summary

Please refer to attached job description for full details Responsibility for people management To provide practice supervision to a range of qualified and non qualified staff working within adult social care To promote continuous professional development and the delivery of high quality support to users by ensuring staff undertake and access appropriate development opportunities To provide advice and assistance to social workers and community care workers in relation to complex case work To support staff to manage their caseloads as well as managing the emotional demands of their workload To facilitate and support the professional development of social care staff by providing professional supervision To provide a clear and responsive practice leadership role within the team including demonstrating best practice mentoring and promoting the highest professional standards via peer reviews and audits To manage performance in line with organisational and service requirements in collaboration with senior and practice management including the implementation monitoring and review of practice improvement action plans for individuals and groups of staff Sustained concentration required when providing supervisions and practice guidance ensuring staff work within legislation national and local procedures This will entail managing competing priorities demands prioritisation and negotiation Conflicting information may require the post holder to use judgement to assess a particular situation and decide on the best resolution and advise the worker accordingly To identify any concerns in relation to risk performance practice wellbeing attendance and mandatory training Ensuring organisational policies and procedures are followed Responsibility for financial and physical resources Implementation of adult social care duties under the care act and delivery of the scheme of delegation Oversight of workforce and recruitment at a team level to be supported by operational and senior management Expectation for the post holder to understand the financial position of the organisation and service to recognise any impact or potential impact on service delivery Undertake delegated financial tasks to support operational responsibilities within the team for example expenses claims staff equipment requests community equipment service requests and monitoring the physical resources assigned to that team which may include mobile phones personal alarms laptops and remote working equipment Responsibility for administration To allocate work across the team daily ensuring consideration of risk effective flow of work and achievement of departmental targets for productivity and quality Audit and maintenance of documentation in line with professional standards Oversight and appropriate response in line with organisational customer services policy to include complaints concerns and compliments Ensure system and process is in place to receive customer and patient feedback and action and share learning including i want great care reviews Responsibility for ensuring system and process in place for monitoring and signing off e roster and shifts monitoring sickness leave and training requests as well as documenting skills in line with practice supervision and line management policies Responsibility for people who use our services To quality assure assessments and support plans To participate in case reviews and assist with deprivation of liberty investigations Delegated responsibility on a day to day basis for supporting staff with issues such as protection of vulnerable adults procedures promoting personalisation and risk enablement To undertake duties based on current professional knowledge as well as legislative and statutory requirements High level of professional competence in health and social care practice recognising national standards adopting a person centred and reflective approach To maintain service knowledge and expertise to contribute to the development of services including best practice systems and protocols which support the delivery of a quality service To support staff in relaying information to service users and carers where proposed support does not meet expectations requiring effective communication skills judgement empathy and negotiation skills Travel to visit service users homes attend meetings and court To have the skills to chair and lead a variety of complex meetings with appropriate outcomes Responsibility for implementation of policy and service developments Assist operational and strategic management to develop the service to meet key performance requirements To have a good understanding of and implement livewell southwest policies and procedures Other responsibilities Correct use of computer hardware and software security processing and generating information creating updating and maintaining information databases Awareness of current social care research trends and to take part in development activities such as safeguarding adult reviews serious incident reviews peer reviews and other learning activity Communications and relationships Maintain positive working relationships and communicate clearly with team colleagues line manager other professionals people who use our service and their families and carers which may include highly sensitive issues Listen to and work in partnership with the people who use our services and families and carers Maintain professional conduct and communicate clearly when faced with competing demands and in situations that are potentially highly emotive such as being challenged by families or other professionals Present evidence based decisions and judgements about potentially complex or ambiguous situations in a manner fit for the audience This includes writing court reports explaining legal requirements to people and their families and projecting health and social care values in a multidisciplinary setting Physical demands of the job Travel between different offices to attend meetings Visit people at home community settings hospital care home or prison Visiting people in their own homes may present risks to health and wellbeing which will require appropriate risk assessment and discussion with manager Some visits may be out of county and on occasion may require an overnight stay Protective equipment may be required such as gloves and face mask in certain settings Sitting at a computer either in office or remote working Take proactive steps to maintain self care and resilience through the use of supervision occupational health services and other support