Location: North Tyneside Council
Pay Rate: £34.45 per hour
Contract: Temporary / Full-Time
About the Role
North Tyneside Council is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Advanced Practitioner to join our dedicated Cared For Teams. This is a pivotal role designed for a social work professional who thrives on delivering excellence in practice while supporting the growth of others.
You will play a leading role in ensuring that children and young people in our care receive the highest standard of support, stability, and advocacy. As an Advanced Practitioner, you will balance high-level clinical practice with a mentoring role, helping to shape the quality of social work across the team.
Key Responsibilities
Expert Practice: Manage a small, complex caseload involving high-level risk and intricate family dynamics, providing a model of "best practice" for the service.
Mentorship & Support: Act as a practice lead, providing formal and informal supervision, coaching, and mentoring to Social Workers and newly qualified practitioners (ASYE).
Quality Assurance: Lead on practice development, ensuring that care plans and assessments are robust, person-centered, and compliant with statutory requirements.
Permanency Planning: Drive forward permanency for children and young people, ensuring their voices are central to every decision made.
Collaboration: Work closely with Team Managers to identify service improvements and foster a culture of continuous learning.
What We're Looking For
Registration: Current registration with Social Work England.
Experience: Significant post-qualifying experience within Cared For/Looked After Children services.
Leadership: Proven ability to lead by example, with the confidence to challenge practice and drive improvements.
Communication: Exceptional interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with children, foster carers, and multi-agency partners.
Why Join North Tyneside?
North Tyneside Council is committed to a relational approach to social work. We offer a supportive environment where practitioners are valued, heard, and given the tools to make a lasting difference in the lives of our "Cared For" children.
Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.
Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.
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