Job Introduction
Job title: Practice Development Officer (Model of Practice Lead)
Salary: £49,764 – £54,916 per annum
Location: Cunard Building/City Wide
A bit about us:
Liverpool is home to vibrant, energetic, and engaged communities, people who take real ownership of their local area and are passionate about making our city a better place. We've got ambitious targets to meet by 2025 and we need people who are driven, dynamic and ready to deliver the very best for our communities. Public service is more important than ever, and this role represents a real opportunity to make a difference to our communities by transforming the way we work and placing our residents at the heart of everything we do.
Working at Liverpool City Council provides an opportunity to contribute to your community and make a positive impact on the lives of residents. Our values shape how we work to deliver public services, and how we communicate with the residents we serve. We care about the best outcomes for local people, through our public services.
We are proud of our world-famous thriving city with its rich culture, affordable housing, stunning waterfront, and our beautiful green spaces – there’s really something for everyone!
Liverpool City Council Children and Young People’s Service is on an exciting journey and the recently created Children’s Workforce Academy is at the forefront of driving high quality practice across the holistic children’s practice system.
This role is part of our ongoing commitment to the development of the Children’s Workforce Academy in implementing its Operating Model to support the practice system to deliver impact and focused outcomes for our children, young people, and their networks via building a sustainable foundation of support to our holistic workforce. This is a great opportunity to be part of an aspirational and forward-thinking portfolio with a priority of ensuring the workforce are equipped with the skills, experience, and knowledge to promote and enable change.
The role:
A great and exciting opportunity has arisen within the Children’s Workforce Academy for an experienced social work practitioner, whose role it will be to support the implementation and embedment of our Model of Practice. This newly created permanent role forms part of our continued improvement activity in driving strength based, relational and collaborative practice in our work with children, young people, and their networks.
The role will primarily work directly in a modelling and supportive approach with teams across Children and Young People’s Services. The priorities of the Model of Practice Lead are as follows:
- To support the delivery of training and workshops to practitioners across the practice system in relation to our Model of Practice
- To upskill and support first line managers to embed the Model of Practice within their teams
- To lead the future embedment of the Model of Practice across the holistic practice system
- To support organisational alignment to the Model of Practice through forms review and review of policies and procedures
- To complete professional observations of practice and provide feedback in relation to practitioners’ use of the Model of Practice in line with the revised Quality of Practice Framework
- To support the implementation and embedment of the Model of Practice across our Partnership (external and internal)
Our Model of Practice has four key workstreams: Family Safeguarding Practice, Restorative Practice, Systemic Practice, and Social Pedagogy.
Our offer to you:
- At least 31 days holiday entitlement, rising to 35 after 5 years’ service – option to purchase further days
- Agile working – a “Flexibility First” approach to agile working, where flexibility is the norm rather than the exception.
- Part of the Local Government Pension Scheme – option to join the AVC Scheme
- Progression – opportunities and training through a wide range of high quality learning
- Health and Wellbeing – including Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to Work and Travel Pass Schemes
- Drive Time – a salary sacrifice car lease scheme
- Family friendly policies with enhanced leave
- Discounted gym memberships
- Employee Volunteering Scheme
- Medicash
Next steps:
Closing date: Sunday 9 February 2025
Interview date: Tuesday 25 February 2025
If you would like to discuss the role further, please contact Harriet Cadman, Recruitment & Retention Lead, via harriet.cadman@liverpool.gov.uk or Helen Lea, Principal Social Worker, via helen.lea@liverpool.gov.uk.
This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service and up to date registration with Social Work England as a qualified Social Worker.
If you are an international social worker candidate and require sponsorship, we have currently closed this programme and are in the process of reviewing it. If we advertise again in the future this will be a separate advert, so please do not apply to this vacancy.
Liverpool City Council is committed to fostering a workforce representative of the communities we serve. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we believe in appointing candidates based on their skills, experience, qualifications, and abilities. To support this commitment, we guarantee an interview to candidates from under-represented groups who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.
If you require any reasonable adjustments in line with the Equality Act 2010, such as an application form in a different format or additional time to complete your application, please contact us at recruitment@liverpool.gov.uk.
Although we advertise on Jobs Go Public, and other websites, your application process will be directed to our Tribepad system. Please note that all communication regarding your application for this post will be sent to the email address that you have registered on Tribepad, including your invite to interview if you are shortlisted. Please check your emails regularly, including Spam/Junk, after the closing dates for notifications. Please ensure you complete your full profile, work and education history in Tribepad.
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