Advance Practitioner - Adult Social Care - Hospital Discharge / Step-Down - Brent Council
Job description
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Our client, Brent Council, is seeking an interim Advanced Practitioner to be based within the Residential and Nursing Commissioning Team, specifically focused on the Step-Down Service.
This post will last until March 2027.
Paid at £36 per hour (umbrella).
The role will involve the following:
- Advanced Practitioner required to support system throughput and flow, based within the Residential and Nursing Commissioning Team, specifically focused on the Step-Down Service.
- The Step-Down provision consists of 16 commissioned beds that facilitate timely hospital discharge, support recovery and assessment, and enable safe transitions back into the community.
- These beds are a critical component in reducing discharge delays, alleviating acute hospital pressures, and preventing avoidable long-term care admissions.
- This role will provide dedicated pathway oversight, coordination, and intervention for individuals within the step-down beds.
- Delivering proactive case management, timely statutory interventions, and early identification of risks that may lead to long-term residential or nursing placements.
- A caseload of 16 aligns directly with the number of commissioned beds, ensuring full pathway coverage.
- The Advanced Practitioner level is required due to the complexity of cases (including safeguarding, Mental Capacity Act work, housing instability, and NRPF), enabling autonomous decision-making and reducing escalation delays.
- The role will sit within the Residential and Nursing Commissioning Team to ensure alignment with bed management and discharge coordination.
- This avoids dilution of focus that would occur within traditional operational teams.
Please let me know if you are interested? Or can you refer a friend for £300 if placed?
Requirements of the role:
- Qualified Social Worker
- Fully Social Work England registered
- Must have significant post-qualified experience in adult social care
- Must have demonstrable experience of complex social work including safeguarding, MCA work, housing instability etc.
- Must have knowledge and experience of Step-Down provisions, hospital discharge etc.
Please contact me asap to discuss in more detail. We are offering £250 joining bonus for new starters with Reed.
Alternatively, we are offering £300 if you refer a friend or colleague and they are placed successfully into this or any other QSW role.
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⭐ Highlight your Social Work England registration prominently at the top of your CV as this is an essential requirement
📊 Quantify your hospital discharge experience: 'Facilitated discharge of 45+ patients monthly, reducing average stay by 3.2 days'
🏥 Emphasise your Step-Down service experience specifically as this is a specialised area mentioned throughout the advert
🛡️ Detail your safeguarding and MCA work with concrete examples of complex cases you've managed autonomously
💰 Note the interim nature and umbrella payment structure (£36/hour) when discussing contract preferences
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- •Managed 18-bed step-down unit caseload, achieving 92% successful community discharge rate within 21-day target timeframes
- •Conducted Mental Capacity Act assessments for 45+ complex cases monthly, reducing long-term care admissions by 28%
- •Led safeguarding investigations involving housing instability and NRPF status, coordinating with 8 multidisciplinary team members
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Brent Council's Advanced Practitioner position within the Step-Down Service represents exactly the autonomous, complex social work practice I am seeking. My experience in hospital discharge coordination and Mental Capacity Act assessments aligns perfectly with managing the 16 commissioned beds that facilitate timely community transitions.
My background in adult social care encompasses safeguarding investigations, housing instability assessments, and NRPF cases, providing the foundation needed for this interim role's complexity. I am particularly drawn to the pathway oversight responsibility and the opportunity to reduce discharge delays through proactive case management.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›How do you assess Mental Capacity Act compliance in complex discharge scenarios?
- ›What statutory interventions would you implement for a patient with housing instability?
- ›How do you manage safeguarding concerns within step-down bed provisions?
- ›Describe your approach to NRPF cases in hospital discharge contexts
- ›How do you coordinate with residential and nursing commissioning teams?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you made an autonomous decision that prevented a long-term care admission
- ›Describe a situation where you managed competing priorities across a 16-bed caseload
- ›Give an example of how you've reduced discharge delays in previous roles
- ›Tell me about a complex case involving multiple risk factors you successfully managed
- ›Describe how you've worked with multidisciplinary teams to improve patient flow
STAR answer examples
Model answers using the Situation-Task-Action-Result framework. Adapt to your own experience.
Tell me about a time you made an autonomous decision that prevented a long-term care admission
Describe a situation where you managed competing priorities across a 16-bed caseload