Job Title: Specialist Designated Practitioner
Location: York
Salary: Grade 10, level 1-4 (£37,114 – £42,562 per annum)
Job type: Full Time – Permanent.
To support our work around the Transforming Care Programme, we are seeking to appoint two Specialist Designated Practitioners. You will be committed to providing real time support and intervention to those on the Learning Disability Dynamic Support Register to avoid hospital admission and ensure timely discharge.
Do you will have a minimum of 2 years post qualifying experience and will have worked with people with a Learning Disability and Autism? As part of the role, you will work closely with our commissioning partners and key stakeholders in health and Social Care.
You will be adept at managing high demands, with strong organisational abilities and initiative. You’ll manage pressure and competing tasks well, while being able to identify opportunities for innovation to improve what we do and how we do it.
With an excellent understanding and ability to apply legislation including the Mental Capacity Act, Care Act, Mental Health Act and Equality act, and frameworks such as the NHS Continuing Health Care Framework you will be highly skilled at providing support via signposting, undertaking Assessments, Support Planning and Reviews. You will have strong reasoning and sound decision making skills, be able to receive and provide professional challenge, and make recommendations for a course of action for the Local Authority that is legally and ethically defensible. You will also know when to seek further advice and guidance and be proficient at using new information to reformulate professional opinions.
It will be important to you to have or to develop a range of methods to work with people who may have different ways of communicating to ensure capacity and participation in decision making is maximised.
You will work collaboratively with peers, including those in the leadership team to support the Local Authority to meet its statutory requirements and vision to support people with care and support needs to have a good life, free from abuse and neglect.
City of York Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. We require the successful candidate to undertake an enhanced Criminal Record check via the Disclosure and Barring Service.
At the moment due to the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, some of our staff are working remotely from home but a return to a combination of working remotely and physically from the Council’s offices is anticipated in the near future.
Closing date: Sunday 11 September 2022 at 12 midnight
Interview date Week commencing Monday 19 September 2022
If you’re looking for a new challenge, to develop your career, or you’re interested in the diversity of the work in a Local Authority could offer, then we would welcome your application.
Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Support Worker, Carer, Care Support, Care Assistant, Social Worker, Enabler, Care Worker, Care Helper, Care Management, Care Assist, Support Assistant, Care Team Leader, Support Team Leader, Special Needs Support, Mental Health Support, Autism Support, Support Coordinator, Elderly Care Assistant, Care Manager, Support Manager, Care Coordinator, Private Care Assistant, Private Care, Care Home Assistant, Care Home Worker, Support Care Worker, NVQ 2, Health & Social Care will also be considered for this role.
