East and West Integrated Neighbourhood teams
are both requesting permission to uplift vacant, difficult to
recruit to qualified QSW posts to 1.0 WTE Advanced Social Work
Practitioner for each team as a test of change for a period of 12
months, reviewing the role after 6 months. This will be advertised
internally across the system as fixed term secondment
opportunities. Reviewing at 6 months will enable further data
analysis of the effectiveness of the posts,
to be used as a business case to evidence and demonstrate if the
establishment of the teams would benefit permanent change, paper to
SLT at 6 months.