Advanced Practitioner Safeguarding - Yeovil

Somerset Council · Yeovil, England, United Kingdom

FULL TIME

Job Description

Salary:

Grade 9, ranging from £43,149 to £47,665 per annum.

Contract:

Permanent

Hours:

37 Hours a week

Location

Yeovil

Closing Date:

25/11/2026

About the Role

As an Advanced Practitioner, you'll play a key role in safeguarding children and young people, managing complex cases and delivering effective, evidence-based interventions that reduce risk and improve outcomes. You'll provide specialist advice, guidance and professional leadership to colleagues, work closely with partners across Health, Education and Police, and help drive high-quality, child-centred practice. You'll also contribute to service improvement initiatives and support the Team Manager to ensure strong leadership and excellent service delivery.

How You'll Make a Difference

Your day-to-day work will involve working within the Family Safeguarding Team in Yeovil working alongside dedicated and child focused social workers and Family Safeguarding adult workers who specialise in supporting parents and carers who have experienced domestic abuse, mental health support needs and substance misuse issues. The foundations of all of our work is relationship-based and strengths-based practice and we pride ourselves on doing this well.

As a Senior Social Worker/Advanced Practitioner

in the team, you will hold a caseload of complex work, but also support the team in other ways, including practice educating students, co-working, and mentoring less experienced colleagues, and chairing planning meetings and Strategy Discussions.

You will work closely with the Team Manager and the other AP's in the team to manage the balance of the different parts of the role flexibly, so that it suits you, your colleagues, and the families you support. We will encourage you to develop practice specialisms and link with colleagues countywide and partner agencies, to build your expertise so you can share it with the team.

Case holding complex Child in Need, Child Protection and pre-proceedings/court work

Positive and supportive multi-agency working to ensure plans meet identified needs and are implemented at the right level for the family

Attendance at Advance Practitioner meetings and contributing ideas to build strong social worker knowledge and skills.

QA of care planning in the area teams

What You'll

bring

We offer ongoing support, training and guidance to help you be the best you can be. To be considered for this advanced role, you need to demonstrate the following

You will

be a Qualified Social Worker, registered with Social Work England and have significant post Social Work qualification experience in Safeguarding

be able to develop and grow strong and supportive working relationships with children and young people, parents and carers and professional agencies

Have strong problem solving skills and are able to manage unexpected situations in a calm way

be able to manage and prioritise your workload and any competing demands.

Why Join Us?

At Somerset Council, we're a progressive organisation committed to improving lives and shaping better services for our communities. Based in one of England's most beautiful counties, it's a great place to build your career and enjoy an excellent quality of life.

Generous annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional leave.

Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), one of the UK's most enhanced and secure pension schemes.

Flexible and hybrid working arrangements to support work-life balance, where service needs allow.

Health and wellbeing support, including access to confidential employee assistance services.

Paid volunteering opportunities, helping you make a difference both inside and outside of work.

Find out more about working at Somerset Council

Further Information

Flexible working available, using a hybrid model in line with the needs of the service- working from home and your contracted work base.

30 days annual leave, plus bank holidays

A commitment to your CPD through a bespoke learning and development programme

Great opportunities for career progression in Somerset

Permanent 37 per week, finishing at 4:30 pm on Fridays.

In this role you will require a criminal background check via Disclosure and Barring Service.

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role. We are only able to proceed with candidates who already have the right to work in the UK without the need for VISA sponsorship.

For an informal chat about the role, please contact Anna Miall, Operations Manager on or

We believe diversity makes us stronger and are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences, whose unique perspectives help us better serve the people of Somerset.

When completing your application/CV please provide your full employment history and ensure that any gaps in employment are explained. Please start with your current or most recent employment.

If you have all the information you need, just hit the apply button - we can’t wait to hear from you.

If you currently work for Somerset Council, please apply via the internal SuccessFactors careers page.

Advanced Practitioner Job Description: AG0612 Advanced Practitioner.pdf

Job Number

: 1486/SR (please quote in any correspondence)

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