Hull City Council Jobs Update

Fixed Term until 31st March 2019 - To facillitate 7 day working

The Adult Social Care vision in Hull is of ‘a life not a service’.  Adult Social Care is person centred and focuses on individuals’ strengths to support them to take control of improving their own health, resilience and wellbeing. We want to maximise people’s independence so individuals can achieve their goals and aspirations and live life to the fullest. We work creatively with individuals, local communities and our partners, empowering them to deliver the best possible outcomes for people and to create a positive Adult Social Care culture. Our work is solution focussed, ensuring that those who most need support receive it and that we can continue supporting people in the future.

Practice lead managers will provide practice and /or professional leadership, by supporting the development of research informed practice, delivering a performance and quality assurance function, supporting staff development and contributing to strategic development in the organisation.

Post holders will make a difference by working with people in highly complex situations and supporting or developing staff knowledge to provide better outcomes for people needing support.

Post holders will assist in the management and development of a multi-disciplinary team to ensure staff understand and engage with adult social care values, vision and strategy.   To work with staff to support people to have a life not a service and to safeguard them from harm.

Champion strengths-based approaches to social care.  Be responsible for creating and delivering practice-based discussions which help staff to change practices by explaining new ways of working, supporting them to gain new skills and knowledge, providing context to the changes, and enabling staff to respond positively to the social care operating model.  To enable staff who feel challenged by change to express their anxieties and provide a safe environment in which this can be discussed. To achieve a shift in practice from that based on high intensity care and support provision to practice which prioritises resilience, prevention, and early intervention. 

To understand and support development of solution focused conversations, active listening techniques, enhanced legal literacy, and system-wide awareness.  To work with other senior management colleagues to deliver workforce training as required.

To understand assessment as a process and an intervention in its own right.  To strongly promote joint and trusted assessments motivating staff to recommend creative and innovative approaches to ensure that people are fully participating and in control of their goals and aspirations.

Support the operational manager in their work to make sure that the staff teams are competent and confident in their practice by motivating staff to engage in shared learning, peer support and maintaining/supporting individual and team development.

Deputise for operational manager as directed. Managing performance and quality assurance. The post holder will assist the operational manager to ensure effective professional practice supervision and appraisals take place. They will make sure learning from the staff influence and informs the work of the organisation, providing feeding back to strategic leaders, and supporting and managing change as needed.

Shortlisting: w/c 2 October 2017