Hull City Council
Practice Lead Manager
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Number of Vacancies: 1 Time Type: Full time Worker Type: Regular Proposed Interview Date: Thursday, July 30, 2026 Hours of Work: 37 Hiring Manager: Melissa Leathley Contact Number: 01482 616361
Job Description Summary
This is a full-time permanent post. This role is not available for sponsorship and is only open to applicants who have the right to work in the UK.
Role and Purpose
The Adult Social Care vision in Hull is of ‘a life not a service’. Adult Social Care is person-centred and focuses on individuals’ strengths to support them to take control of improving their own health, resilience, and wellbeing. We want to maximise people’s independence so individuals can achieve their goals and aspirations and live life to the fullest. We work creatively with individuals, local communities, and our partners, empowering them to deliver the best possible outcomes for people and to create a positive Adult Social Care culture.
Practice lead managers will provide 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.
Principal Accountabilities
1. Strategy
- Maintain an awareness of changes in national and local contexts and their impact on practice, and communicate this effectively within and outside of the organisation.
- Positively influence developments that affect social work practice.
- Contribute to and assists the manager to provide professional leadership of organisational change and development, including the identification of gaps in service.
- Promote positive working relationships in and across teams, using strategies for collaboration and contribute to a supportive organisational culture.
- Facilitates case discussion and quality monitoring to ensure that principles of the operating model are understood and implemented.
- Supports operational manager to nurture joint working across adult social care managing joint allocations and assessments.
- Safeguarding of vulnerable adults, implementing principles of Making Safeguarding Personal.
- Working to legislation, case law, and statutory guidance, implements primary legislation and undertakes assessments/specific pieces of work relating to Mental Capacity Act 2005, Care Act 2014, Human Rights Act 1998, Mental Health Act 1983 e.g. undertaking complex Assessments of Capacity and complex / challenging Best Interest Decision Making; completes Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards assessments and acts as scrutineer for BIA assessments (as a Best Interest Assessor) ; completes applications to the Court of Protection and challenges to the Office of the Public Guardian.
2. Customer Focus
- Co-ordinates a range of strategies/approaches that keep people at the centre of their assessment ensuring that staff demonstrate and evidence effective partnerships that promote peoples self-resilience, choice, and control.
- Distributing guidance and support to enable people to make their own choices and decisions, applying and updating best practice into policy and practice.
- Model and promote confident and critical application of professional ethics to decision-making using a legal and human rights framework, and support others to do this.
- Promote and support a partnership approach to working with individuals, communities, families, and carers, providing clarity and reasoning when this approach is not appropriate.
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3. Performance Management
- Supports operational manager with organising and facilitating team meetings, forums, and workshops.
- Supervises and develops staff through a variety of forums e.g. 1-1 practice development, reflected practice, mentor, coaching including providing honest and constructive challenge/feedback.
- Research and appraise new ways of working including equipment and digital technology providing expert advice to enable staff/team develops competent and confident practice.
- As directed supports operational manager with continuous team development and service improvements.
- Directs the prompt implementation of new guidance, procedures, and structures work plans to enable staff to complete structured learning and development.
- Model and assist the manager in taking responsibility for the positive use of workload tools; using workload data to inform the organisation’s workload management and risk management approaches.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of procedures that are fit for purpose, enhance best practice, and contribute to better outcomes.
4. Leadership
- Provides support, advice, and encouragement to meet principles of legislation, guidance policies, and procedures.
- Validates assessments with quality audits of casework including observation of practice to ensure that staff have skills, knowledge, and competencies to practice confidently.
- Deputises for operational manager to facilitate prompt and responsive service especially during periods of high demand/city-wide escalation.
- Supports operational manager to carry out regular inspections/audits of premises and caseloads to ensure that policies and systems are in place which focus on health and wellbeing of staff and people and support the planning and mitigation of business risks and continuity.
- Assists team manager to promote a culture of professional curiosity embracing research within the area of responsibility, encouraging the exploration of different cultures, concepts, and ideas.
- Promote, articulate, and support a positive social work identity.
- Understand concepts of holistic assessment of professional capability, and be able to apply to appraisal processes/performance reviews of social work teams and individuals.
5. Statutory Obligations
- Meets the requirements of the professional regulator.
- Assists operational manager in ensuring practice is compliant with the law.
- Supports staff to challenge situations where the interpretation of the law seems unfair or disproportionate.
- Supports staff to access professional social work advice/ legal advice to be compliant with the law.
- Provides advice on statutory issues such as safeguarding, MCA, court of protection, human rights etc. to ensure legal literacy and compliant practice.
- Prepares evidence, writes reports to support operational manager in dealing with complaints, workforce issues, court proceedings etc.
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Compensation Grades
- Grades: 10
- Pay Ranges: £45,091.00 - £48,226.00
Job Classifications
- 3- Not Politically Restricted - Designated As Not Politically Sensitive (Politically Restricted Posts)
- 7- Enhanced & Adults Barring List - (Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS))
- Casual - (Travel Allowance Policy)
- No - (Childcare Disqualification Requirement)
- No - (Statutory Post)
- OSP - Other Support Staff (School WorkForce Census)
Benefits of Working for Hull City Council
- A competitive salary
- An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
- Initially 23 days annual leave depending on length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year, and three additional days off, one in May/August and one during the Christmas/New year period
- Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods
- Supportive and forward-thinking culture
- Great career development opportunities
Please ensure that you complete and submit your application by midnight prior to the closing date. Please ensure that your application demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria against the person specification as listed in the job description.
We are committed to increasing the diversity, equality, and inclusion within our workforce to represent the people we serve and build an environment in which everyone can feel like they belong. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We adopt a ‘name blind’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.
We reserve the right to amend the dates associated with this advert, which may include closing the advert early where required. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. Online searches, including social media, may be carried out as part of the recruitment process.
By joining our team, you will be making a tangible difference to the lives of people in Hull. Working with people who are as passionate about our place and public services as you are.
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