Social Care Practitioner

Shropshire Council are currently seeking a Social Care Practitioner to join their newly developed Virtual Care Delivery Team. The team provides virtual care and support as an alternative to traditional models of care and face to face care provision and utilises advanced assistive technologies to facilitate virtual interaction and data capture for monitoring purposes.

The Social Care Practitioner will be responsible for identifying suitable candidates for virtual care delivery, tracking their journey through this innovative approach and completing reassessments to determine outcomes achieved and where suitable, reducing existing commissioned domiciliary care packages, freeing up capacity in the care sector.

• Identify suitable candidates for virtual care delivery
• Track candidates' journey through virtual care delivery
• Complete reassessments to determine outcomes achieved
• Work closely with Virtual Care Team to monitor delivery of service
• Travel across the county on a daily basis

• Previous experience in adult social care and adults w disabilities.
• Enhanced DBS.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Flexibility to travel across the county on a daily basis.
• Experience with virtual care delivery and advanced assistive technologies preferred.

If you are interested, please call Chris Richardson on or email me your CV -

If this role isn't right for you, but you know someone who would fit perfectly to our engaged and devoted team and you refer them, you will receive a referral bonus of £250.

The benefits of working with SCS:

• A specialist dedicated Social Work consultant offering single point of contact.
• Exceptional referral bonuses - £250 per referral placed in to work!
• An extensive & exclusive range of Social Work vacancies across the UK
• Nationwide provider Social Work staff to over 200 local authorities.
• Payroll service twice a week.
• Ltd and PAYE payment options available.
• Annual training budget of up to £250 and continued online CPD training.
• Excellent Annual Loyalty schemes / bonuses.
• DBS disclosures provided via fast-track online services free of charge.