Practice Development Coordinator LBHF79452

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Salary range: £52,569 - £55,665 pro rata, per annum (actual salary £26,284.56 - £27,832.56 per annum)

Work location:145 King Street, Hammersmith, London W6 9JT

Hours per week:18

Contract type: Permanent

Vetting requirements: Enhanced DBS Check

Closing date: 25 July 2021

Interview date: Week commencing 2 August 2021

Contact details for an informal discussion: Lukasz Meczykowski, Head of Service Performance and Improvement, on 020 8753 1471, or via email on lukasz.meczykowski@lbhf.gov.uk

Advert Text

Hammersmith and Fulham, rated nationally by Ofsted as one of the top Local Authorities, never stops moving forward. Our ambition is to focus even more on increasing the quality of our practice and the work with children, young people and families in order to sustain positive change. As a department, we promote a highly supportive culture that allows you to do what you do best, encompassing individual mentoring and clear developmental opportunities. We have an established systemic practice model which is embedded throughout all areas of children’s social care. You will be committed to relationship based social work, with a track record of supporting the learning and development of practitioners to improve the lives of children.

We are looking to recruit a Practice Development Coordinator with experience and knowledge of children’s social care to develop and support our practice development programme. The Practice Development Manager is responsible for supporting continuous professional development to positively impact upon social work practice standards and deliver outstanding outcomes for vulnerable children and families.

You Will Be

Role Responsibilities:

• Providing tailored support and expertise to facilitate learning and raise the quality of social work education and social work practice in collaboration with partner universities
• Managing the development of student social workers on undergraduate and postgraduate courses and employment-based training programmes, to generate higher calibre entrants to the profession and prepare them for the realities of social work practice in front line safeguarding teams
• Take responsibility for understanding workforce needs and ensure social work students, NQSWs on Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) are skilled and supported, to achieve improved outcomes for children and their families
• Delivering group supervision focusing on critical reflection, dissemination of research and social work literature to support the development of professional expertise and promote resilience
• Encouraging a learning culture through the provision of strong leadership, and championing core social work values and principles of good practice
• Directly involved in practice learning assessment and assessment within the Post Qualifying Standards
  

People Values

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

How we act defines who we are. At the heart of our organisation is a common approach to defining ‘who we are’. We are looking for people who can build this into everything they do.

We are fair

We treat everyone with compassion, dignity and fairness. We value the views and opinion of others, and promote benefits and opportunities for all.

We are caring

We care about our borough and doing things well. We focus on standards and continuous improvement; learning from our mistakes and celebrating success.

We are collaborators

We work together for a better society. We work with our residents, businesses, schools, third sector and others for better outcomes for everyone.

We are driven

We will only settle for the very best. We seek to continually improve and put our residents, customers and businesses at the heart of everything we do.

Recruiting For Attitude

Your skills and ability are important however, we recruit as much for attitude as we do experience. We are looking for people who have the following attributes:

Complex problem-solving

The ability to work within a complex system and find simple solutions and outcomes that deliver real change.

Critical thinking

The ability to challenge the norms through evidence-based approaches using both numerical and critical reasoning and thinking. You can rationalise decision-making and form views quickly and soundly from a range of sources.

Creativity

You take approaches that demonstrate how doing things differently and creatively changes the dynamic in situations. You can apply creative solutions that deliver hard outcomes.

People management

You can get the best out of people. You have a coaching-style and drive through a commitment to personal and professional development. You are clear in your expectations and have exceptional feedback from your team about their working environment. You recognise and support people as individuals.

Coordinating With Others

You have the knack of working well with others. You have an appreciation of your own presence and approach and can demonstrate how you have developed and continue to develop how you work with others. You can also recognise how others work, think, and feel to get the most out of collaboration.

Emotional intelligence

You have a high degree of self-awareness and self-regulation in a wide range of situations from one-to-one conversations to team and group dynamics. You can recognise motivating factors and demonstrate empathy appropriately applying a wide range of adaptive social skills.

Judgement and decision making

You can take rational and evidence-based decisions and take responsibility for your decisions and actions. Where there is ambiguity or a lack of evidence you can demonstrate the ability to understand the environment and show flexibility in applying your judgement.

Negotiation

You can demonstrate an understanding of the range of skills and techniques required to successfully negotiate with a range of other partners. This includes understanding how to structure and undertake successful negotiation on an organisational-wide level.

Service orientation

You must be unequivocal in your commitment and drive for outstanding service delivery. Both in terms of the quality of products and work delivered as well as the achievement of objectives. You and your team can demonstrate how your overall contribution to the organisation and service delivers to our organisational aims and objectives.

Cognitive flexibility

The ability to recognise the environment in which you work and adapt and shift to this environment to maximise your own personal achievement and lead others in the same approach. Applying cognitive flexibility to situations of significant change and transformation.

Hammersmith & Fulham Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.

Corporate Equalities Employment Policy: In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Qualification (GOQ) applies.

We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.