Roles, pay and benefits
Information about our roles, what you can expect to earn and the benefits available to you.
Last updated
14 December 2023
“As a practitioner in a customer facing role in the Regaining Independence Service currently, I feel that our knowledge and clinical expertise is really valued by our manager and our suggestions for service development within the team are really listened to.”
Our roles
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- Managing a caseload assessing needs, risks and options.
- Provide interventions and monitor/evaluate progress.
- Provide information and advice to promote independence.
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- Complete strengths-based assessments, manage a varied caseload assessing needs, risks and options.
- Provide advice and interventions to enable independence.
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- Act autonomously, apply expert and effective practice in complex situations, assessing and managing risk.
- Provide advice and interventions to enable independence.
- Mentor new staff and supervise the work of non-qualified staff.
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- Practice expertly in complex situations, manage higher levels of risk balancing support and control.
- Mentor newly qualified staff and supervise the work of qualified and non-qualified staff.
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- Practice skill at the highest level and be responsible for a complex caseload.
- Contribute to developing standards of practice.
- Provide mentoring, coaching, training and supervision to staff to improve practice and outcomes.
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- Manage a team including the performance management and professional development of staff.
- Enable and challenge others to develop their knowledge base and make knowledge-informed judgements, inc decision making around risk.
- Model and use critical reflective in management skills to enhance practice.
- Be involved in recruitment of staff.
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- Drive outcome focussed planning, assurance and improvement across the system.
- Contribute to the formulation and implementation of evidence-based policies, processes and guidance.
- Develop relationships with health and children’s services.
- Manage a budget and contribute to decisions on spending.
- Manage service delivery through the use of effectively managed resources.
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- Contribute to the formulation and implementation of evidence-based policies, processes and guidance.
- Take the professional lead on assigned technical areas specialism.
- Communicate specialist information to a range of audiences and partners both inside and outside the organisation.
Benefits
These include:
- annual leave of between 26 and 29 days
- flexible working opportunities, including flexitime, working from home, job sharing and nine-day fortnight
- excellent opportunities for continued professional development
- an excellent local government pension scheme (24.7 per cent of salary)
- an employee assistance programme offering 24/7 support for you and your family for a range of things, includingmental wellbeing
- staff discounts
- career breaks
- a diverse and inclusive workforce, with active support groups for:
- mental health
- Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff
- carers
- disabled staff
- LGBTQ
- women.
We also have a range of commuting and business travel discounts and initiatives, including:
- pool cars - you can access a range of cars for your travel for work purposes
- discounted bus and train tickets (15 per cent on peak and off-peak travel with Southern Rail)
- a car benefit scheme where you can offset your salary in exchange for a brand new car
- the Cycle to Work scheme - a salary sacrifice scheme where you can get a bike for a healthy way to travel.