Senior Practitioner - Short Term Pathways - West Kent

Role Responsibility

If you are a registered Social Worker then we would love to hear from you. We are offering an excellent opportunity to join a friendly, dynamic, and supportive team which promotes professional development.

The post would be based in the West Kent area and the focus of the Short Term pathway team is to support people who are on a hospital discharge pathway.

We are looking for motivated, experienced professionals who are interested in working within the Short-Term Pathways, and keen to work with Acute, Community Hospitals. The successful applicant also needs to be flexible in their approach and committed to working in an integrated team and ready to embrace new ways of working, to help further shape our services. 

As a senior practitioner within the Short-Term Pathways team, you will be providing

• Practice and supervisory service to a designated group of professional staff in the Short-Term Pathways team, ensuring effective safe practice, high quality case work / service and performance in the designated team through the application of professional expertise to the team and wider teams. Ensure adherence to the operating framework for OP/PD clients and related policies, procedures, and practice guidance.
• Management of a client caseload made up of highly complex / safeguarding cases that require a high level of specialist expertise to ensure that a proportionate assessment is undertaken to identify required needs, risks, and outcomes, to promote enablement and ensure an appropriate level of resource allocation is made to meet people’s support needs.
• The ability to work closely with other social and health colleagues, including the teams Occupational Therapists to promote independence throughout recovery.

Our team in Short Term Pathways is creative, energetic, dynamic, and diverse. The team are proud of the high standard of service we provide to our customers at their most vulnerable times.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

We are increasingly accessible to the public outside of traditional office hours, as we move towards an 8 am to 8 pm, 7 days a week service to ensure service needs are met.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure and Barring service and registration as a qualified Social Worker with Social Work England.

We also welcome C.V applications from experienced registered nurses and occupational therapists with relevant experience into our Practitioner roles. If you hold a registration with a professional body (Social Work England, HCPC, Nursing and Midwifery Council) and would like to know more about these opportunities please contact: Jane Sargeant
Telephone: 03000 414 673.
Email: Jane.sargeant3@kent.gov.uk

Contact Details

If you would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact:

Jane Sargeant on 03000 414673 or email Jane.sargeant3@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

Work that works for you and us - let’s talk flexibility!

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county’s working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.