Social Care Assessor (E3096)
Social Care Assessor
The post will provide a wide range of learning and training opportunities and includes joint working across the Health and Social Care sector. It will provide you with an excellent opportunity to progress your career and will offer you a wide range of experiences within Adult Social Care services
The Adult Community Teams are part of the wider Care Community Partnerships with GP’s, Matrons, Mental Health services, Housing, and voluntary sector services as they take a collaborative approach to supporting people within its footprint. The Community Teams provide support for any adults over the age of 18 years and includes, adult safeguarding, those with a learning disability, autism, mental health concerns, physical disabilities, and homelessness. This is an exciting opportunity for a Social Care Assessor to develop new and innovative ways of working and it is therefore essential that you have an appropriate Heath & Social care qualification and experience of adult social care and be able to work under pressure. The successful applicant will need to be able to adopt a flexible approach to their work and be a good team player. Hybrid working of being home or office based are available.
Cheshire East is an amazing place to live and work. As one of the largest employers in the borough, we are able to offer you a wide range of challenging and rewarding career opportunities.
At Cheshire East Council we are working for a brighter future – together and our commitment to you is that our workplace culture will provide a shared purpose, a well-led organisation with valued people succeeding together as one team and one council to deliver the best service for our customers and communities.
If you want to be part of our award-winning council and contribute to our ongoing success, have the flexibility and drive to enable us to innovate, are committed to working as part of a team and striving to deliver exceptional service wherever you can, we would especially like to hear from you.
As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and want our workforce to reflect the diversity of our local communities so that we can all work for a brighter future - together.
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What we are looking for:
We are looking for an enthusiastic Social Care Assessor who understands adult social care, mental capacity and safeguarding issues.
The candidate should be self-motivated with excellent communication skills and the ability to develop and work both autonomously within Adult Community Services and the wider multi-disciplinary arena.
You will need to have good organisational and time management skills as this is key to effectively managing caseloads.
The candidate should understand asset and strengths-based support and be able to remain calm in a variety of situations.
It will be essential for the post holder to work autonomously within the Council’s policies and professional practice, in addition to maintaining accurate and comprehensive client documentation.
The post holder will be based at Delamere House, Crewe, but there may be a necessity to travel to other bases.
Cheshire East Council operates a ‘flexible and mobile’ working policy.
If you have any queries or require additional information about this post, please contact Sally Davenport sally.davenport@cheshireeast.gov.uk
Cheshire East Council is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults across the Borough. As such, any cautions, convictions, reprimands or final warnings that are ‘not protected’ as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) order 1975 (as amended in 2013) relating to the non-disclosure of spent convictions do not apply to this job. You must therefore, disclose whether you have any previous convictions where prompted to do so within the application process.
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If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date then it is likely that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion, however please do not be discouraged from applying again.
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