ADULTS ADVANCED PRACTITIONER


Company:	Wax Recruitment Ltd
Salary:	£29.76
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Birkenhead, Merseyside, CH41 2YA
Working pattern:	On-site
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	23 Jul 2026
Closing date:	22 Aug 2026

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Summary

Job title: ADULTS ADVANCED PRACTITIONER

Job Category: Social Care Qualified

Hours per week: 36

Location: 2 Alice Square, Birkenhead, Merseyside, CH412YA, Wirral MBC

Pay: £29.76 per hour

Agency cover for an Advanced Practitioner Social Worker to join our Adult Safeguarding Team in Wirral. We are looking for the right person who has safeguarding experience and has been in an advanced practitioner role. An enthusiastic and self-motivated person to work as a key member in our team, ensuring the highest quality of professional safeguarding practice is delivered in line with legislation, policies, procedures and bes

Purpose

Working within the Standards of conduct, performance and ethics as described by Social Work England, ensuring compliance with legal, organisational and multi-agency requirements. Take a lead role in ensuring that all operational social work practice involving safeguarding, adult protection and high-level risk is of the highest possible standard and in accordance with relevant legislation and agreed policy, procedures and guidance.

Main Duties And Responsibilities

Behavioural:

• Enjoy, achieve, create impact, and thrive in the role and organisation.

• Live our values in the role and organisation.

Adult Social Care service specific duties & responsibilities:

• Manage a case load where circumstances and needs have indicated high levels of risk and complexity, multiple incidents of safeguarding, critical decision making in relation to investigation and protection arrangements and recourse to legal applications (court of protection).

• Work alongside practitioners on cases where there are particularly high levels of complexity or risk.

• Ensure that individuals and carers are involved in timely assessment support planning and review processes, and that care and support plans are person centred and focussed on individual outcomes.

• Ensure that effective risk management, decision making, and preventative work is undertaken to promote independence of individuals and carers whilst taking into account the need to safeguard people effectively.

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