Social Care Assessor DART

Role: SOCIAL CARE ASSESSOR DART

Department: HOUSING AND COMMUNITY LIVING

Connect2Luton are excited to recruit a SOCIAL CARE ASSESSOR on behalf of Luton Borough Council within their HOUSING AND COMMUNITY LIVING department.

Main purpose of position:

Receive referrals, undertake assessments, undertake tasks involved in support planning and review.

Promote personalised care pathways ensuring choice and control for all eligible individuals. You will be expected to work with others to influence and shape the local environment, to promote social inclusion and accessibility and ensure that identified needs are understood individually, by locality and fed into strategic commissioning.

As a SOCIAL CARE ASSESSOR you will be responsible to:

Complete assessments of need and risk in respect of service users and carers using Luton Borough Council eligibility criteria. This involves:

• Undertaking statutory duties under the NHS and Community Care Act 1990, and other legislation and guidance relating to service users and carers.
• Ensuring that service users and carers are involved in timely assessment and support planning and review processes. (This is may include duty work and screening and prioritising, providing advice and carrying out a range of assessments for: equipment, reablement and also longer term community care support. It could involve delivering, fitting and demonstrating equipment to assist daily living (although this is usually undertaken by Millbrook Health Care) including specialist non-stock equipment, assessments for minor building works and for some adaptation works. It will involve completion of risk assessments including moving and handling if you have been trained for this. It is likely to involve a working knowledge of welfare benefits to advise service users how to maximise their income and be able to contribute towards the costs of their care services) .
• Considering a range of solutions to meet needs within the principles of self-directed support and safeguarding.
• Meeting needs through discussion and negotiation with service users and their carers and in consultation with professional colleagues, ensuring that Support Plans are person centred and focused on individual outcomes, meet assessed needs, address risks, promote independence and choice, respect service users dignity and rights and meet their cultural needs .
• Checking that equipment, support plans (or care packages) provide value for money and meet assessed needs and outcomes identified by the user and take account of any changing needs at review.
• Keeping appropriate case records, statistics and information utilising Council computer case recording systems, and other IT systems where required.
• Working with other professionals and partners to achieve effective joint working through initiatives that require a multi-agency approach, participating in and organising multi agency meetings .

Skills and Experience

• Experience of the customer interface environment and demonstrable commitment to customer satisfaction including knowledge of different adult social care client groups.
• Dynamic and innovative, able to work as part of a team and meet strict deadlines and targets and work under pressure.
• Able to communicate effectively (orally and in writing) and work with service users, carers and with a wide range of other professionals. Including being able to promote the benefits of working together as one multi-disciplinary team and one department to minimise duplication and make best use of scarce resources.
• Able to conduct robust and sound assessments, risk assessments, support plans and reviews and facilitate self-assessments, applying the concept of single assessment where appropriate and maintain high quality records, write clear, concise reports and correspondence dealing at times with complex issues. This will involve using Council computer database and case recording systems.
• Able to evaluate alternative lines of action, identify degrees of priority and urgency and make creative and sound judgments in providing solutions to case work issues.
• Value for money minded with evidence of ability to design cost effective care packages, being clear about the impact of decisions on costs, and maintain effective administrative and organisational procedures.
• Able to set and maintain the highest standards of personal, professional and ethical behaviour and gain the trust and respect of others.

DBS

Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for Disclosure and Barring Service checks to be undertaken. Therefore, it is essential in making your application you disclose whether you have any convictions, bind overs or cautions and, if so, for which offences. This post will be exempt from the provisions of section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders 1974 (Exemptions) (Amendments) Order 1986. Therefore, applications are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are 'spent' under the provision of the Act, and, in the event of the employment being take-up, any failure to disclose such convictions will results in dismissal or disciplinary action by the Authority. The fact that a bind-over or caution has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this appointment.

About Us

Luton Borough Council have partnered with Kent County Council to create Connect2Luton, a recruitment managed service for all contingent temporary agency, contract, and interim roles at the Council.

Our heritage and being local government owned which means we have a wealth of knowledge and expertise within the public sector, with many of our employees having previously worked for the Council or have supplied previously into the Council, for several years.

We are an equal opportunities employment agency and business that positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.

Connect2Luton is a trading style of Luton & Kent Commercial Services LLP - A joint venture between Luton Borough Council & Commercial Services Kent Ltd. Connect2Luton is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business. It positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.