Practice Tutor (London and the West)

Practice Tutor (London and the West)

Practice Tutors play a vital role in the training and development of social workers. You will provide support, challenge and guide participants to ensure their learning is to an excellent standard.

We are looking for candidates who can lead the delivery of teaching in units and teach at the 5-week summer institute as well as recall days across the year. You will be expected to support participants in their local authority units, support the development of the programme (as appropriate) and supervise participants during the 2nd year of the Frontline programme.

Practice Tutors work closely as a peer group to share effective ways of working across participant units, local authorities and regions. Additionally, 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 that enables teams to do their best work in order to achieve our mission to transform the lives of vulnerable children and families.

Practice Tutors (PT) 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 are responsible for supporting a number of participant units, based within statutory children’s social care services.

Each unit comprises four (in some cases 5) participants and is led by a Consultant Social Worker (CSW).  Core to the Practice Tutor role is the ability to provide general support, challenge and guidance to participants and CSWs in order to ensure that participants practice learning experience is of excellent quality.

Applicants need a good understanding of the social work role and have the ability to make links with adults’ and children’s services. PTs also support CSWs to develop and provide excellent guidance and management to participants on the programme.

This role provides the opportunity to genuinely align practice and theory and instil the same strong commitment in CSWs and participants

To apply you will need

• good social work practice skills
• experience of developing others
• a commitment to educating a new generation of social workers
• a commitment to evidence informed practice models
• an appetite to exploring different and innovative approaches to teaching these models

All new PTs are supported to gain fellowship status with the HEA if you don’t have it already.

To be considered for the role, please read all supporting documentation and click the apply button. You will be redirected to the application page.