Advanced Practitioner
| Posting date: | 27 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | £42,839.00 to £47,181.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £42839.00 - £47181.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 May 2026 |
| Location: | Lincoln, LN1 1XX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | F0067-TP1072-2687 |
Summary
As part of the wider Councils objectives your role is responsible for providing statutory professional social work across Adult Care and Community Wellbeing teams that support adults with care and support needs. You will work with people with differing needs to promote independent living and to draw on care and support when required. You will support others to know and understand the local community and embed yourself within place-based services. As an Advanced Practitioner (AP) you will hold the most complex cases referred to Adult Services. Given the expertise this role requires you will be an experienced social worker or Occupational Therapist who has been qualified for at least four years, and who has undertaken continuing professional development. The postholder will be skilled at embedding new ways of thinking and working, developing and maintaining strong, positive working relationships with their teams. You will be expected to work with autonomy and demonstrate a multi-agency approach, integrating your practice with colleagues across the health and care sector. You will demonstrate through practice experience a commitment to strengths-based practice and skills in supporting people to identify and build support networks to achieve their identified outcomes. You will be responsible for assessment, care and support planning, implementing and reviewing packages of care and support on a varied and more complex case load ensuring people are as safe as possible and adult safeguarding concerns are addressed promptly. You will provide advice, support and mentoring to other Adult Care practitioners in relation to their cases. You will be expected to work with autonomy managing a caseload. Work may include travel outside the county. Work independently to hold and manage a varied and complex caseload with supervision and advice from the Team Manager at a level of complexity appropriate to the post holder's experience, and professional capability and be accountable for their professional practice. Work with individuals, families, carers and communities to help them make informed choices and decisions, enabling them to clarify and express their needs and contribute to service planning. Act as a role model to others to help them to manage uncertainty and to respond positively and creatively to changing expectations. Provide reflective supervision, coach and mentor teams / colleagues as appropriate to embed personalisation and strengths and asset-based community practice. Co-work specialist assessments with less experienced members of the team to ensure that they improve and develop.