Finance and Sponsorship Social Work - C1

Job description

The Unit drives delivery of work on a number of high profile and politically sensitive adult and public protection policy areas, working in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of Ministerial, internal, and external stakeholder engagement. The Unit’s aim, working collaboratively with a range of policy teams, is to ensure that those vulnerable to harm get the right support at the right time; and that our work individually and collectively supports response, protection, and recovery from harm. Work of the ASP Professional Social Work Adviser will contribute to aims of the wider public protection unit, to identify linkages, risks and opportunities across a wide range of policy developments, taking a whole system, lifespan approach. This includes mental health law and operations; adults with incapacity; substance use; child protection; MAPPA; violence against women and girls; and suicide prevention, as well as missing people, homelessness and other emergent priorities. Current ASP-specific priorities include revision of national guidance for general practice; development and implementation of a learning and improvement programme, building on local and national evidence; data use...