About the role
Are you a critically reflective social worker looking to take the next step in your career? If so, this is an exciting time to join our team. Cambridgeshire County Council's Learning and Development Team is looking for a Full-time Adult Social Care Practice Development Lead.
You'll be joining a welcoming Adults' team and the wider Learning and Development Team, supporting professional learning, practice development and workforce improvement across Adult Social Care. This is a varied role that combines supporting newly qualified social workers through their Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) with wider responsibility for developing, delivering and evaluating professional learning opportunities, contributing to practice improvement initiatives, and supporting workforce development priorities across services.
The post holder will be able to work flexibly from home or from our Stanton House office in Huntingdon, and other offices around the County when required. We are also able to offer flexible working patterns, allowing everyone to effectively blend their work and life commitments.
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact: Zainab Sulaiman, Adult Social Care L&D Business Partner, at Zainab.Sulaiman@Cambridgeshire.gov.uk.
What will you be doing?
As an Adult Social Care Practice Development Lead, you will play a key role in the delivery, development and quality assurance of the Adult Social Care ASYE programme, ensuring newly qualified social workers receive high-quality support, assessment and development throughout their first year of practice.
You will provide reflective supervision, undertake practice-based assessment activities and work collaboratively with managers and colleagues to promote positive learning experiences and professional development. You will contribute to the ongoing development and continuous improvement of the ASYE offer, helping to ensure assessment processes are robust, consistent and aligned to national standards.
In addition, you will design, develop, deliver and evaluate a range of professional learning opportunities across Adult Social Care. These may include classroom and virtual learning, coaching, mentoring, action learning, reflective supervision and other approaches that support workforce development.
You will work collaboratively with operational services and wider partners to identify learning needs, develop sustainable learning solutions and contribute to practice improvement and workforce development priorities across Adult Social Care.
About you
You will have substantial experience of adult social work practice and a commitment to supporting the professional development of others.
You may have experience as a Practice Educator, ASYE Assessor, supervisor or in another role where you have supported learning and development in the workplace. If you do not currently hold a Practice Educator qualification, you should be willing to undertake it.
You will understand how professional learning occurs in the workplace and how reflection, supervision and constructive feedback can support professional growth.
You will have strong communication, organisational and analytical skills, together with an ability to build positive working relationships with colleagues across Adult Social Care.
You will be able to adapt your communication and support to meet a range of individual learning needs, helping to create an environment where colleagues can learn, develop and thrive.
Most importantly, you will be passionate about supporting high-quality social work practice and improving outcomes for adults and carers.
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
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