87 Advanced Practitioner jobs in the United Kingdom

Advanced Practitioner (NHS Continuing Healthcare) - Devon County Council

Location: Devon, UK

Pay Rate: Up to 40 per hour

Are you an experienced and motivated Social Work professional ready to take on a leadership role? Devon County Council is seeking a dynamic Advanced Practitioner to support our adult services teams with a focus on NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC).

About the Role

The purpose of this role is to provide operational leadership, support, and guidance to ensure the local authority meets its responsibilities for NHS CHC. You will play a crucial part in supporting staff, managing resources, and fostering strong working relationships with key agencies. Your focus will be on ensuring the timely and effective assessment, personalised support planning, and care management for individuals.

A key part of your work will be to champion integrated working across all agencies, promoting a partnership approach to achieve the best outcomes for individuals. This includes ensuring effective protection for adults at risk of abuse or neglect.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and guidance to social work teams on all aspects of NHS Continuing Healthcare.
• Ensure compliance with relevant legislation, national policies, and Devon County Council procedures.
• Support and develop staff to maintain effective working relationships and meet performance expectations.
• Promote integrated working with health services and other partner agencies to deliver seamless, person-centred care.
• Act as a senior point of contact for complex cases and provide expert advice.
• Ensure a high-quality service is delivered to the public that meets required standards.

Requirements:

• A professional Social Work qualification and current registration with Social Work England.
• Significant post-qualification experience in adult social care, with a strong understanding of NHS Continuing Healthcare processes.
• Proven ability to provide professional leadership and guidance to a team.
• Excellent knowledge of relevant legislation, including the Care Act 2014 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Experience in multi-agency working and partnership collaboration.

This is an excellent opportunity for a highly skilled practitioner to influence and improve service delivery across Devon. We are looking for someone who is passionate about collaborative working and is dedicated to achieving the best possible outcomes for service users.

Advanced Practitioner (NHS Continuing Healthcare) - Devon County Council

Location: Devon, UK

Pay Rate: Up to 40 per hour

Are you an experienced and motivated Social Work professional ready to take on a leadership role? Devon County Council is seeking a dynamic Advanced Practitioner to support our adult services teams with a focus on NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC).

About the Role

The purpose of this role is to provide operational leadership, support, and guidance to ensure the local authority meets its responsibilities for NHS CHC. You will play a crucial part in supporting staff, managing resources, and fostering strong working relationships with key agencies. Your focus will be on ensuring the timely and effective assessment, personalised support planning, and care management for individuals.

A key part of your work will be to champion integrated working across all agencies, promoting a partnership approach to achieve the best outcomes for individuals. This includes ensuring effective protection for adults at risk of abuse or neglect.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and guidance to social work teams on all aspects of NHS Continuing Healthcare.
• Ensure compliance with relevant legislation, national policies, and Devon County Council procedures.
• Support and develop staff to maintain effective working relationships and meet performance expectations.
• Promote integrated working with health services and other partner agencies to deliver seamless, person-centred care.
• Act as a senior point of contact for complex cases and provide expert advice.
• Ensure a high-quality service is delivered to the public that meets required standards.

Requirements:

• A professional Social Work qualification and current registration with Social Work England.
• Significant post-qualification experience in adult social care, with a strong understanding of NHS Continuing Healthcare processes.
• Proven ability to provide professional leadership and guidance to a team.
• Excellent knowledge of relevant legislation, including the Care Act 2014 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Experience in multi-agency working and partnership collaboration.

This is an excellent opportunity for a highly skilled practitioner to influence and improve service delivery across Devon. We are looking for someone who is passionate about collaborative working and is dedicated to achieving the best possible outcomes for service users.

Advanced Practitioner - Adults Team

You will be working within a well respected Local Authority based in the Somerset area. The manager is looking for an experienced advanced practitioner to manage staff and the complex situations which arise within the team. You will be skilled in developing others and in proving supportive and reflective challenge to others. This role will be in an acute hospital team.

Benefits for this position:

• Hybrid working
• Competitive Pay rates
• Long term contracts

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Eden Brown Synergy is an equal opportunities employer.

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Advanced Practitioner - Adults Team

You will be working within a well respected Local Authority based in the Somerset area. The manager is looking for an experienced advanced practitioner to manage staff and the complex situations which arise within the team. You will be skilled in developing others and in proving supportive and reflective challenge to others. This role will be in an acute hospital team.

Benefits for this position:

• Hybrid working
• Competitive Pay rates
• Long term contracts

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Eden Brown Synergy is an equal opportunities employer.

Eden Brown Limited is a limited company registered in England and Wales with registered number (phone number removed). Our registered address is 5th floor 4 Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5AR, part of nGAGE Specialist Recruitment Limited T/A nGAGE Talent. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This message is intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to us, and immediately and permanently delete it. Do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. We take reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email but cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage sustained as a result of computer viruses and the recipient must ensure that the email (and attachments) are virus free.

• Job Title:                            Children and Families Advanced Practitioner
• Job Location:                    Tewkesbury 
• Salary:                               £48,226 - £1,356 per annum
• Hours per Week:               37
• Contract Type:                   Permanent 
• Closing Date:                     Ongoing
• Job Requisition Number:   9624 
• Open to job share or part-time hours

We are currently seeking an Advanced Practitioner to join our Children and Families teams in Tewkesbury.

About us

For all your hard work. You will receive the following:

• between £48,226 - £51,356 per annum subje to experience
• welcome payment of up to ,000*
• annual retention payment of ,000*
• relocation package up to ,000*
• flexible and agile working opportunities
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
• an option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff)
• family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family
• supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
• an in-house Occupational Health service
• employee discount scheme
• cycle to work scheme
• links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
• career development and qualification opportunities
• access to our Social Work Academy
• paid SWE registration renewal

Our vision

Right child, right support, right time, every time

In our recent inspection in June 2025, our Children’s Services h ave been officially judged as ‘Good’ with ‘Outstanding’ elements. Ofsted also said ‘Leaders have set out a clear vision for delivering success for children, by modelling values and creating a culture where the workforce, children and families feel valued and heard; risk is managed confidently with bottom lines clearly set out.’

This marks an important step in our journey to improve outcomes for our child ren and young people, and we remain focused on our mission: to continue building on this success and ensure that every child and young person in our county has the opportunity to thrive. 

Gloucestershire offers a range of opportunities to develop your career, supported by a phenomenal Social Work Academy offer, a developing systemic practice methodology, an ambitious leadership team and an award-winning workforce.

We are a local authority adop ting, and training all colleagues in, systemic social work practice. If you would like to be part of an authority that takes a relational approach to working with families and focuses on what needs to change in the system around a child and family to enable children to thrive, then consider a role with GCC.

About you

As an Advanced Pra ctitioner you are at the heart of Gloucestershire’s practice model. You will hold an expert role within your team. Your role includes facilitating the team and service’s ability to develop and deliver complex social work practice through a combination of joint working, practice advice and guidance, and quality assurance. 

You will also model Gloucestershire’s relational systemic practice model and will help promote Gloucestershire’s practice standards across the team.

Advanced Practitioners provide direction to team members around improving the quality of practice. This may include activities such as quality assuring an assessment or attending joint visits with social workers to support their learning.

As an Advanced Practitioner you may provide Newly Qualified Social Workers in the team with monthly reflective supervision and undertake one of the observations of practice, however management of the NQSW will sit with Team Managers. You will also support any Social Work students within the team.

You will have a joint lead for a particular area of practice offering a weekly consultation to practitioners from across the service to book into, to support them to develop their practice in that specific area.

You will work closely with the Social Work Academy through regular forums and training to ensure standardised practice across the teams, bringing new learning and training opportunities to social workers within your team.

As an Advanced Practitioner you will hold a small number of cases, ensuring you have dedicated time to follow your other duties.  

To find out more about this role take a look at our video here: 

As well as your experience as a frontline Social Worker, there are some things we require of you to be successfully appointed to this post:

• Social Work England/ Wales registration
• experience at Senior Social Worker level
• a recognised qualification in Social Work
• to have completed your ASYE year (if you qualified after 2012)
• a full driving licence and willingness to drive
• enhanced DBS clearance  

How to apply

For an informal chat about this role, please email with your name, number and what you wish to discuss, and a member of the team will give you a call within 48 hours.
 

To ensure a personalised and responsive recruitment experience, all applicants will receive a call from the recruitment team to discuss this role, where you would like to practice, and in what area, and to book you in for an interview.

If you would like to find out more about our Children's Services please take a look here: Children's Social Care Careers | Gloucestershire County Council

*Please note, all our welcome payments and retention payments are non-contractual, pro rata for part-time staff and subject to National Insurance and tax deductions.

We reserve the right to close an advertisement earlier than the stated closing date if we receive a suitable number of applications or fill the vacancy/vacancies.

The council will consider sponsorship for this role, in line with Home Office regulations and subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks. 

Under the terms of our Safer Recruitment Policy, if you are invited to interview, we will take up safeguarding references prior to your interview to understand your suitability to work with vulnerable children. These references will then be discussed in your interview. Please give details of at least two referees, one of whom must be your present and/or last employer and the other from a previous employer(s). These will need to cover the last three years of employment/education. In the case of applicants leaving full time education or not having worked since doing so, the Head of School, College or University should be one of the named referees. We do not accept references from friends or family members or workplace colleagues (who are not more senior). To ensure we process your application in a speedy and efficient way, we will contact your referees by DocuSign. Where appropriate, please inform them of your application.

Additional Information

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-

Advanced Practitioner Role Profile

Childrens Recruitment Booklet

This position is subject to a DBS check.

Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities.  Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

• Directly manage and supervise a small number of qualified and non-social work staff.
• Manage a caseload of complex and challenging cases.
• Support team manager in maintaining and developing high professional standards across the team.
• Have specialist knowledge of an area of social work practice with children and families that can be used across the service. To represent the service in developing key service provision or local strategic initiatives.
• Take responsibility for developing skills, expertise and knowledge for a wide range of practice issues and to provide consultation, coaching and mentoring within the team, including effective case management, purposeful evidence- based interventions, analytical assessments and high quality written work.
• Support team development and recruitment process.

• Social Work England registration
• Eligibility to work in the UK
• Social Work qualified (MA/BSc/DipSW/CQSW/MSc/BA)