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Social Care Assessment Officer
| Posting date: | 25 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | £14.00 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | per hour PAYE |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 February 2025 |
| Location: | NEWCASTLE, NE1 8QH |
| Company: | Triumph Consultants Ltd |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | Newcastle 1000000115264041 |
Summary
What's involved with this role:
Ref number: Newcastle 1000000115264041
Hybrid
Please do not apply for this role unless your CV meets the following general requirements, listed below:
You must be UK based and have the right to work in the UK.
For office based and hybrid roles, your commute to the place of work must be less than 1 hour.
This is a temporary role. Please do not apply if you are seeking a permanent position.
Enhanced DBS disclosure required
Skills & Experience:
NVQ Level 3 Social Care or equivalent
Knowledge and understanding of The Care Act and Safeguarding Adults procedures.
Knowledge and understanding of the Mental Capacity Act
Experience of working with service users, carers and other professionals in a health or social care related field
Experience in responsibility for the arranging or managing of care services.
Experience of assessing and addressing risk
Excellent recording skills using electronic data information systems, including experience of entering and extracting information from a variety of sources.
Effective assessment, planning and reviewing skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks and manage own workload, seeking guidance appropriately.
Desirable:
Knowledge of resources; health, local authority, voluntary and independent sector.
Experience of using a strengths-based approach in practice.
What's involved with this role: You will be providing additional capacity to review the care and support needs of people using the bed based services. You will also provide community discharge support, ensuring timely assessment and transition into any assessed ongoing social care support.
Key Responsibilities:
Assist Social Work Teams with case work ensuring that families or individuals receive support that is consistent, integrated and is of the highest standard.
Provide information for reports, meetings, conferences, etc., to agreed standards.
Undertake basic/initial assessments keeping cases under review and maintaining high quality standards of service to Vulnerable Adults.
Maintain high quality safeguarding standards for Vulnerable Adults, reporting concerns promptly to the Team Manager.
Update and maintain computer and written records in accordance with Directorate guidelines ensuring the quality of the information noted is accurate and up to date.
Participate in and/or minute meetings in respect of service users.
Establish and promote effective working relationships with external partners, agencies and other sections of the Directorate that will improve practice and outcomes for individuals and families.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application should be clearly shown in your CV.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.
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Job Ref: Newcastle 1000000115264041
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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