Care Assessor

Adecco are recruiting for a Care Assessor for an East-London local authority.

Our clients Adult Services Directorate Service has an Access Team who work as a front door, fast-paced service to deal with referrals on a daily basis. The team manages urgent or immediate as well as short-term referrals.

They are seeking dynamic and collaborative individuals to join their team to provide the best possible service to support their approach working on varied case loads. If you are passionate about improving services for residents and working in a quick paced environment, then we have the right roles for you.

The team is a multi-disciplinary team which includes senior staff, contact workers (who takes the referrals); Occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants, care assessors, social workers. The service provides support all over the Borough

• Full Time - Monday to Friday, 36 hours per week
• Temporary Role - 3 months with likely extension as well as opportunity to apply for permanent role
• £19 per hour PAYE / £23.64 per hour Umbrella (Circa £44 K per annum)
• IT equipment provided
• ASAP start
• Enhanced DBS will be completed on your behalf
• Based near Romford

Role Purpose

• Contribute to the delivery of an effective Adult social care service as part of a social care team, improving outcomes for People and Carers.
• Carry out high quality holistic assessments, using strengths based, person centred, community focused, and multi-agency interventions to bring about positive change through developing effective relationships and to secure the best outcomes for people and carers.
• Undertake the legal and statutory duties of the post as required by the Care Act. Have a good awareness and understanding of Mental Capacity Act, liberty protection safeguards, Mental Health Act and any other relevant legislation
• Support the appropriate allocation of resources required to maintain independence through the use of Personal Budgets and explore all options that are available to people
• Manages, plans, prioritises and progress cases of an appropriate level of complexity, seeking support and suggesting resolutions for workload difficulties with due regard to service standards, targets and timescales

Duties

• Assess and evaluate risk in partnership with service users and carers, where required putting in place appropriate interventions, strategies and contingency plans to mitigate risk and to protect vulnerable adults
• Clear understanding of Mental Capacity and impacts on practice
• To pro-actively support and work collaboratively with health services to ensure people receive the required health and social care support within the community, are discharged from hospital within agreed timeframes with appropriate support mechanisms in place, prevent hospital admission and pro-actively work with the principles of admission avoidance
• The post holder will be required to occasionally work outside "normal" office hours as required by their line manager up to 36 hours per week
• Respond to the needs of the service by being positive, flexible, and empathetic to customers and carer's needs, working in an integrated way supporting both social workers and occupational therapists to promote independence, choice and control

Work with all other managers within the service to ensure sufficient operational management cover is maintained for the overall Homeless Assessment

Must Have's

• Knowledge of social care practice and legislation (e.g. Care Act 2014, Equality legislation, Mental health Act, safeguarding and making safeguarding personal, GDPR and Data Protection policies
• Good communication/assessment and written skills
• Ability to prioritise case load and ability to work in a fast paced team
• Experience ( preferable but not essential) of using social care database (Liquid Logic)
• Experience of completing assessments and/or reviews.
• Car driver preferred

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