Closing date:23 February 2025 Fixed Term for 12 months due to funding. Are you passionate about making a positive and lasting difference for the people of Hull? Care and support in Hull is transforming and Hull City Council is looking for exceptional individuals like you to join the Adult Social Care team. If you are enthusiastic, motivated and are up for a new challenge, then we have an exciting opportunity for you. There is an opportunity to work within the newly created rough sleeping and making every adult matter team. Changing Futures have incorporated a model with a single point of contact, in which a holistic, strengths-based support plan is created for each individual. This allows those living with multiple unmet needs to be able to have input and support from key partner agencies and services through one trusted worker. Working within the Social Work aspect of this team, you will be responsible for assessing individuals adult social care needs and implementing support as appropriate. Are you an experienced social worker? Changing futures Social Workers provide high quality social work practice and manage a caseload with a focus on supporting people facing multiple disadvantages presenting with complex problems including homelessness, substance misuse, contact with the criminal justice system and mental ill health. Service Vision and Purpose. Community See& Solve are the main front door integrated service for people accessing Adult Social Care via the community. Within Hull Adult Social Care, we are developing an understanding of trauma informed practice. Trauma-Informed Practice is a strengths-based approach, which seeks to understand and respond to the impact of trauma on people’s lives. The approach emphasises physical, psychological, and emotional safety for everyone and aims to empower individuals to re-establish control of their lives. Within Adult Social Care there are several initiatives which require working in delivering a coordinated service for people experiencing multiple disadvantages. This includes the Making Every Adult Matter and Rough Sleeping Initiative. The people who are supported within Early Help Adult Social Care Services will require consistent and person-centred social work support to establish care and support needs and reach their long-term personal goals.  Role and Responsibilities of the job The role will work directly with the housing teams, rough sleepers’ team, mental health homelessness team and other adult social care services to plan, prepare and deliver bespoke services for people with complex needs. To ensure through ongoing case management that these services continue to meet needs and are best value. The Practice Lead Manager will work as a key part of a multi-disciplinary intervention, the post holder assists people identified within the community see and solve adult social care as experiencing homelessness to improve and maintain their health, by identifying and managing unmet health, housing and social care needs by: Providing practice and /or professional leadership, by supporting the development of research informed practice, delivering a performance and quality assurance function, supporting staff development and contributing to strategic development in the organisation. Assisting in the management and development of a multi-disciplinary team to ensure staff understand and engage with adult social care values, vision and strategy. To work with staff to support people to have a life not a service and to safeguard them from harm. Champion strengths-based approaches to social care. Be responsible for creating and delivering practice-based discussions which help staff to change practices by explaining new ways of working, supporting them to gain new skills and knowledge, providing context to the changes, and enabling staff to respond positively to the social care operating model. Enable staff who feel challenged by change to express their anxieties and provide a safe environment in which this can be discussed. To achieve a shift in practice from that based on high intensity care and support provision to practice which prioritises resilience, prevention, and early intervention. Understand and support development of solution focused conversations, active listening techniques, enhanced legal literacy, and system-wide awareness. Work with other senior management colleagues to deliver workforce training as required. Understand assessment as a process and an intervention in its own right. Strongly promote joint and trusted assessments motivating staff to recommend creative and innovative approaches to ensure that people are fully participating and in control of their goals and aspirations. Support the operational manager in their work to make sure that the staff teams are competent and confident in their practice by motivating staff to engage in shared learning, peer support and maintaining/supporting individual and team development. Deputise for operational manager as directed. Managing performance and quality assurance. The post holder will assist the operational manager to ensure effective professional practice supervision and appraisals take place. They will make sure learning from the staff influence and informs the work of the organisation, providing feeding back to strategic leaders, and supporting and managing change as needed. The successful candidate for Practice Lead Manager will have the following: Professional qualification in Social Work (Diploma in Social Work, BA/BSc/MA in Social Work, CQSW as required by Social Work England) and is registered with Social Work England. Experience of working as a social worker with people who have complex needs and require specialist support and interventions to enable them to live safe and wherever possible independent lives. Experience of assessment and planning, initiating, monitoring, developing and providing outcomes-driven services in adult social care. A passion to work with people to enable them to live their life and not receive a service Experience in a leadership role, supporting other managers and supervising social workers. Practice Educator qualification desirable but not essential For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Kate Abba on 01482 612602. 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