Frontline Hiring for Practice Tutor Job at Bristol, England , UK Full Time

Location: Bristol, with travel required throughout the South West

About the role:
Practice Tutors (PTs) work closely as a peer group to share effective ways of working across participant units, local authorities and regions. They play a key role within the development and delivery of our social work curriculum, contributing knowledge and expertise to create a culture that promotes outstanding social work education and enables teams to do their best work.
PTs are responsible for teaching and developing participants at the five-week summer institute, regional recall days and, in the participant units within local authorities. PTs support a number of units, based within statutory children’s social care services. Each unit is led by a Consultant Social Worker (CSW). Core to the Practice Tutor role is the ability to provide support, challenge and guidance to participants and CSWs to ensure a high quality practice learning experience.

A little bit about you:
Applicants need a good understanding of the social work role and have the ability to make links with adults’ and children’s services. To apply you need excellent social work practice skills, experience of developing others and a commitment to educating a new generation of social workers. This role provides the opportunity to genuinely align practice and theory. In doing so you to be a committed to evidence informed practice models and have an appetite to exploring different and innovative approaches to teaching these models. PTs are supported to gain fellowship status with the HEA if not already held.

Our commitment:

We believe that diversity makes for a stronger team and want our organisation to better reflect the communities we serve. Therefore, we are actively seeking applicants from ethnic minority backgrounds for this role. We are also a disability confident employer and welcome applicants with disabilities. Please let us know how we can make the recruitment process more accessible for you by emailing our People team, the email address is on the link to this job advert.

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Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: Up to £50,421.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: One location