Community Care Officer

Seven Resourcing are currently seeking a Community Care Officer to work within Lincolnshire County Council. This is a full time role, paying £19.37 p/h.  You will work as part of the 7 day Adult Care rota. This equates to approximately 1 in 4 weekends worked, and these are all scheduled 3 months in advance.

PURPOSE OF JOB:

To work as directed by the Lead Practitioner with people who may require care and support to identify needs, strengths and outcomes and provide a range of services to support people to manage their needs and maximise their independence.

MAIN DUTIES: 

1 To work within the policies, practices of the Adult Care and Community Wellbeing Directorate to prescribed standards and to participate in learning and development as required by the Lead Practitioner and Continuous Professional Development.

2 Hold and manage a caseload of service users with a higher level of need. This will include the identification of service users and the provision of information and advice. Including a potential for a complex response assessment of user and career need, commissioning follow on care and monitoring and review, amending as required. Operating within budget framework set by the Directorate and managed by the Lead Practitioner.

3 Provide support to Qualified Social Workers / therapists as required in line with the service roles and responsibilities.

4 Contribute, co-operate and work in partnership with other agencies to ensure service users are safe and protected and to maximize the outcomes for service users.

5 To provide a range of equipment, arrange minor adaptation work and to teach alternative techniques to overcome the effects of disability on independent living where appropriate.

6 Understand the value and usefulness of performance information and uses data to monitor service user progress and the teams overall performance.

7 Represent the Directorate at multi-agency meetings. Share written / verbal information to both internal and external parties in line with Directorate policies and procedures and legal requirements.

8 To undertake assessment of needs including any non-social care requirements such as health care or housing to enable planning, design and recording care packages in agreement with service users, carers and other agencies within available resources and budgetary constraints.

9 Develop care packages to include the design of individually tailored care packages for service users in consultation with identified carers/ families.

10 To work as a team member within the multi-disciplinary context and to develop professional working relationships with other agencies including Health Care Services, Housing Authorities and Voluntary and Independent Sector Services.

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