Advanced Practitioner

Assist the Team Manager in providing high quality services to people, families, and carers in accordance with relevant legislation and policy.

• To operate as the senior professional within the team and deputise for the Team Manager in their absence as appropriate.
• To undertake a range of statutory duties in accordance with legislation with adults and their carers; and provide specialist evidence-based interventions.
  To provide professional consultation, direction and support to team members on existing cases daily.

• Carry a caseload of individual people and families where the problems presented are consistently challenging and complex and require advanced level of skills and knowledge.
• To undertake joint working on cases with team members where these are more complex and/or assisting with the development of areas of practitioner competence.
• To provide practice learning opportunities to social work or occupational therapy students (and, where appropriate, AMHP trainees) by directly supervising/assessing the student