Social Care Assessor

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Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Social Care Assessor, Health Housing and Social Care - Integrated Discharge Team to work full time based in Enfield, London.

The salary for this permanent job is up to £33,351 - £34,341 p.a.

Key Accountabilities

• Work with service users to assess, design, plan, implement and support care plans/management of cases as directed by the line manager in order to maximise individual service user opportunity and development.
• To take ownership to establish, develop and sustain effective working relationships with service users and use your initiative to strengthen relationships.
• Provide appropriate and practical assistance and support to meet the needs and requirements of service users, carers and team.
• Provide screening of referrals, signposting and directing calls to relevant staff/teams. Support with maintaining spreadsheets and data to manage clipboards.
• As agreed within the service to undertake the role, duties and responsibilities of a key/case worker and undertake Care Act Reviews.
• Ensure that service users have appropriate access to advocacy and where appropriate to the service, are empowered to self-advocate.
• Actively support and promote the inclusion and participation of service users using a range of interventions e.g. group work, user participation.
• As discussed with the line manager, undertake relevant training and contribute to team workshops and other learning opportunities to promote good practice.
• Work in partnership with other professionals, carers and professional agencies involved in supporting service users and their families.
• Be an active and constructive member of the team and be involved in planning and implementation of events, groups and outcomes that achieve positive outcomes for the service and service users.
• Work effectively to meet goals and targets and work to required deadlines, adhering to Departmental/service specific procedures, systems and policies i.e. Medication Policy the Council’s Code of Conduct and related policies i.e., Equalities & Diversity, Data Protection, Confidentiality etc.
• Comply with the Council’s financial regulations and be aware of the resources available within the specialist area, including other sources of funding so that maximum benefit is obtained for service users within budget.
• Comply with a range of statutory requirements and legislation as directed by the line manager.
• Comply with the Council’s data management policies and maintain accurate and up to information using the electronic recording system.
• Carry out all accountabilities in compliance with the Council’s Policies and Procedures.
• The range of outcomes we expect you to do are set out above, however this is not intended as a complete description of your job. We reserve the right to ask you to undertake any tasks that are consistent with the grade to ensure effective service delivery.
  

Key Relationships

• The post holder will be required to work with vulnerable adults and includes disabled parents with children, children/adults with a sensory impairment and/or need for equipment and link with Children’s Services
• Other members of staff in the Housing, Health and Adult Social Care directorate
• Health colleagues
• Local community groups
• Voluntary organisations
• Providers
• Carers
• Other Council departments
  

Contact

This job is advertised by Sam Kittle if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications within a residential or supported living setting from care home managers, deputy managers, care coordinators, key workers, childcare workers and more as we might have other roles applicable to you.

Due to the high volume of applications, we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.