Community Assessment Officer
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 12 Medi 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Competitive |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 12 Hydref 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Bolton, BL4 7PD |
| Cwmni: | inploi |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 75741581 |
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Grade: G scp23 £34,434 to scp27 £38,220 plus additional car user allowance.
Contract: Permanent
Role specifics: Must hold full UK driving licence.
Unfortunately, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.
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The Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Bolton’s Adult South Neighbourhood Team as a Community Assessment Officer. You will work closely with social work and health colleagues to support adults and carers under the Care Act 2014. The role involves completing assessments, care plans, reviews, Mental Capacity Assessments, and participating in Best Interests meetings.
You’ll work with individuals with complex needs, using resources across health, social care, and voluntary agencies to promote independence and ensure appropriate support. The post also includes administrative duties, managing referrals, and offering advice through a busy duty service
About You
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated individual who has a passion for working with adults and carers, understanding their needs, aspirations and supporting them to enhance their quality of life. We adopt a strength-based approach to our practice and seek to provide a person centred service. We are looking for resilient practitioners who can manage competing demands and prioritise work effectively. The role requires applicants who are confident decision makers and who can stay calm under pressure.
While in this role you will need to demonstrate commitment and enthusiasm to working closely with those with care and support needs, their families and carers, other professionals and your managers and peers. You will have the ability to develop and maintain relationships with team members, external organisations, service users and carers. You will have the skills to be actively involved in multidisciplinary team working and decision making.
About Us
This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.
Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.
As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.
Our Values are really important to us, read all about them below, along with all our great staff benefits, the job description/person specification for the role and the important legal bits, and our Top Tips too.
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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced DBS with check of relevant barred list is therefore required for this post.
This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.
This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the commitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information.
For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk
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