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Job Category : Social Care Qualified
Location : Badminton Road Council Offices, South Gloucestershire Council
Hours Per Week : 40.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary; £30.55

Looked After Children Team / Children in Care
This is a position of a non-caseholding Senior Social Worker, supporting the Team Manager within LAC/CiC.
Driving license and appropriate means of travel insured for business purposes is required.
About the role
Working in a team in either Access and Response Team, Social Care Long Term, or Corporate Parenting, under the guidance of the Team Manager the post holder will hold a child care case-load where complex and sensitive issues are at stake, will lead and supervise a small team, and will deputise for the Team Manager when required, with support and guidance from other Team Managers. It is expected that this will usually be for a maximum of four weeks at any one time.
Working in a multi-agency context, the post holder will ensure vulnerable children and young people are identified, protected and supported to achieve positive outcomes through the provision of well planned, integrated and coordinated services.
The post holder will promote effective partnerships with those providing preventative and/or specialist services in the public, private, community and voluntary sectors as well as with children young people and their families to achieve the best possible outcomes.
The post holder may also be involved in the recruitment and development of staff and this may include volunteers/partners/foster carers etc.
The post holder may also undertake the role of Practice Educator in terms of assessing, developing and mentoring student and newly qualified Social Workers (usually one to two per year).
The post holder will use a significant degree of professional expertise, together with knowledge of the extensive statutory framework that governs the duties and processes and timescales in relation to this area of work.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

1. You will hold a degree or equivalent professional qualification with appropriate professional registration. You will have substantial post qualification experience within a similar service area.
2. You will demonstrate specialist knowledge of the relevant services, including latest service developments, legislation, regulations and codes of practice.
3. You will have effective relationship building skills to deal with a variety of contacts.
4. You will have budget management and monitoring skills.
5. Ensure work of the team complies with guidance and relevant codes of practice
   You will have a good level of general IT skills and the ability to use, or be trained in the use of, appropriate specialist in-house software packages

Job Category : Social Care – Unqualified
Location : Bridgewood Nursing Home, Enfield Council
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:30
Salary: £12.03

Responsible for all activities for the preparation an cooking of meals.
Duties will include skilled cooking activities connected with the full range of meals (for example preparation of menus, portion control and the provision of special dietary meals where appropriate); record keeping; ordering supplies; control of hygiene: in accordance with Environmental Health guidelines; rotation of stock; health and safety in the kitchen; reporting any deficiencies to the officer in charge.

Job Category : Admin / Clerical (Kingston & Richmond)
Location : Twickenham Training Centre, Achieving for Children
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:15
Salary: £13.15

The Workforce Development Service is responsible for ensuring that members of the children’s workforce have the right training, qualifications and on-going professional development to provide the high quality services. The Workforce Development Service is made up of the following teams: learning and development (L&D) team, Wellbeing and Employee Engagement (WaEE) team and People and Payroll (PP) team. Our Workforce development service operates across both of our operational areas (Richmond and Kingston and Windsor and Maidenhead local authorities).

The L&D team has four strands 1) training delivery 2) Events and centre management 3) Apprenticeship delivery (W2W) and 4) team business management. Business Management is a new addition to the service and will manage each function associated with the business management of Workforce Development. This will include supporting our managers with their data and finance needs whilst providing business management support to the Way2Work team through recruitment and engagement with employers. The service is focussed on delivering the best outcomes for our learners in whichever capacity they interact with us. In this role the post holder will work from one of our offices and from home, in line with our Future Space strategy.

The Exams Administrative Assistant is responsible for a number of the administrative support functions for the apprenticeship programme. The role will work with the Business Manager and the Lead Trainer Assessor to administer the whole apprenticeship lifecycle. This will include working with colleagues in the team to coordinate our processes for the registration, invigilation and certification of all learner exams as well as manage contracting arrangements with employers and to liaise with the Trainer Assessors to ensure the learner is inducted on to their programme of learning. The postholder will be the single point of contact for apprenticeship related questions. This role is pivotal in making sure the apprenticeship support offer is managed in an effective and efficient manner.
In addition the post holder will have excellent verbal skills and will be able to support projects and initiate activities in relation to L&D, enabling managers, employees and partners to receive a competent and timely service.

Skills and experience

• Experience of working in a business support capacity, providing a wide range of administrative support.
• Good customer service skills – experience of interacting with internal and external customers, including routine enquiries from members of the public, which could be face to face, receiving and responding to incoming communication
• Able to react tactfully and sympathetically to requests from customers and to remain calm under pressure.
• Experience of keeping basic records, both manual and electronic, including confidential records, filing documents accurately recording information and archiving files and in a standard format, good with spreadsheets.
• Some knowledge of how to collate statistical information and reports in line with agreed plans.
• Comfortable with financial administration.
• Experience of Microsoft Excel, Google Drive and Google suite.
• Some project management support experience – updating project plans, research and organising communications.

Job Category : Admin / Clerical
Location : Millfield Cleaning Depot, Hackney Council
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £14.39

We are looking for an energetic team player to join our very busy administration team on a temporary basis. You will be required to undertake ad hoc administration duties however you will predominantly focus on accurate minute taking, scanning and data entry. You must have experience in accurate and speedy minute taking along with knowledge and experience of all current IT systems like GSuite. This will be a rolling contract for the successful candidate. The job will be office based only.

Job Category : Admin / Clerical
Location : ALEXANDRA HOUSE, London Borough of Haringey
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immrediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £20.45

Basic objectives of the post

To act as an impartial, independent inspector and guardian of quality. To ensure that work is carried out to Homes for Haringey’s standards, specification, and schedule. To ensure the correct materials are used and the workmanship is of a high quality. To make recommendations to the Clerk of Works Team Leader based on findings onsite.

Principle Duties and Responsibilities

To oversee Contractors works on site and undertake the duties of Clerk of Works;

To carry out a variety of property inspections and the estates in which they are located, including pre & post works inspections, condition surveys etc. and manage as necessary works to bring the property or estate to acceptable
standards in accordance with Specifications and Contract documents;
 To schedule works and complete surveys on properties highlighting condition,
measurements and remedial actions required including the formulation of detailed
specifications where required; and
 To lead a surveying area of ‘specialism’ on behalf of the surveying team to

Experience
Experience of working on construction, refurbishment, and maintenance projects. Experience of working in occupied properties Experience of working in partnership with a team of professional staff
Skills
Ability to manage own time and priorities, juggling a mixed workload
Ability to communicate clearly with technical staff, contractors, clients, and residents
Ability to keep accurate and auditable records electronically
Ability to undertake duties on a verity of construction projects including refurbishment, planned maintenance and new build
Knowledge
Knowledge of the construction process, project programming and resource planning
Thorough knowledge of building regulations, relevant British Standards and Health and Safety regulations
Working knowledge of standard forms of building contracts (PPC, JCT etc)

Job Category : Admin / Clerical
Location : Civic Centre, Bromley Council
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 08:45
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £13.95

About the Role:
3-month assignment with potential to extend.

The role is purely for minute taking and database entry only (Liquid Logic.)
Candidates must have a minimum typing speed of 60 wpm. The candidate should ideally have experience of minute-taking in any setting.
The type of minutes they will be taking are sensitive and confidential, so adhering to GDPR is crucial. They will minute Core Group meetings (children subject to a child protection plan) and Chid-In-Need meetings (children subject to child-in-need plan.) Once the minutes are completed, they are to be entered onto the child’s record and recorded on an Excel spreadsheet, therefore Excel experience and some database navigation experience would be preferable but training will be given.
Meetings can last up to 2 hours, and the expectation is that the candidate completes between 2-3 meetings per day. The turnaround is 2 working days, therefore fast and accurate typing speed is essential.
All meetings are virtual (Skype or Teams.) The candidate would work in the office for a short while whilst training is given, then they will be working from home.
The candidate will need to have good communication skills and be able to ask for help as teamwork is key. Strong prioritisation of workload is needed.
SKILLS & ABILITIES

Must have competent literacy skills with an accurate typing speed of at least 60wpm.

Must be organised, have strong administrative skills, to include Excel and other Microsoft programmes, and have excellent attention to detail.

Must be able to prioritise workload and work to deadlines.

Professional telephone manner and attitude is essential.

Excellent communication skills.
Ability to use own initiative and be self-motivated as well as working as part of a team.
KNOWLEDGE
Basic knowledge of Children’s Social Care and Data Protection.
IT knowledge in Microsoft Office packages, Liquid Logic and any other databases employed by the council.
EXPERIENCE

Previous experience in an administrative capacity.

Previous experience in taking minutes in any capacity.

Good IT experience in a range of applications.
QUALIFICATIONS

GCSEs in English and Maths or proven experience commensurate to qualification.

IT qualifications or proven experience commensurate to qualification.

Job Category : Admin & Clerical
Location : Docks Office, Vale of Glamorgan Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 08:30
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £10.19

We have a requirement for two full time (37 hours) and one part time (20 hours) administration staff to assist with various tasks within the safeguarding administration team. We are looking for candidates to start as soon as possible and the end date for these vacancies is open for extension depending on performance, workloads etc

Job Category : Financial
Location : London Borough of Hillingdon
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £18.54

Responsible for effectively assessing a range of high risk cases throughout Council services in significant detail, obtaining documentation to verify intelligence through a range of investigative methods such as desk based checks, residential visits and premises inspections to confirm the legitimacy of service users. Identify irregularities and fraud indicators and, where appropriate, referring the case to a Counter Fraud Investigator to commence a full investigation. Responsible for proactively identifying potential fraud, managing existing case loads and liaising with a broad spectrum of business partners, ensuring the highest professional standards are maintained in the delivery of sensitive and pro-active risk based investigations. These investigations will be aimed at evaluating the adequacy of Council’s financial, reputational, property and other interests, to secure the financial stewardship, integrity and probity of systems within the Council, its services and its resources in the short and long term.
QUALIFICATIONS
Accredited Counter Fraud Technician (ACFT) or equivalent professional qualification.
Maintain professional Accreditation by conducting, recording and maintaining Continuous Professional Development (CPD).
EXPERIENCE
Demonstrable experience in any industry of successfully carrying out detailed verifications /investigations in a Counter Fraud Team or equivalent.
Experienced and effective investigative interviewer, engaging with individuals under a diverse range of circumstances and in contentious situations.
Experience of undertaking an investigative, problem solving role.
Experience and effective interpretation and application of Statute, Regulations and Codes of Practice relating to local taxation and valuation, in real world scenarios.
Experience and effective interview planner, building effective interview strategies designed to maximise information received.
Experienced and effective report writer, drafting effective reports for a broad and diverse readership including Heads of Service.
Experience and effective giving evidence as a professional witness in civil court, criminal court or tribunal.

Job Category : Driving
Location : County Hall, West Sussex County Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:30
Salary: £11.50

We require 10 PSAs to join the team, position likely to last at least 3 months with temp to perm opportunities for the right candidates.

The PSAs will be based in either the Worthing or Broadbridge Heath depots, so please indicate candidate’s preference on their application. If a staff member does not have a car, we can collect them from their home as public transport to the depots is very low in availability.

Job Category : Driving
Location : County Hall, West Sussex County Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:30
Salary: £11.50
DBS required

We are looking for 10 Drivers to join the team.
They are required at Worthing and Broadbridge depots, so please indicate candidate preference when submitting application.

Key Skills:

1. Ability to drive safely and considerately in accordance with the Highway Code regulations.
2. Ability to communicate successfully with colleagues and passengers, build trusting relationships and exercising persuasive skills e.g. to encourage service users to wear their seatbelt and stay seated on the bus.
3. Ability to resolve straightforward problems e.g. route planning.

Qualifications and/or experience:
⦁ Basic numeracy and literacy skills gained through education or through relevant experience.
⦁ Valid UK driving licence including category D1 or PCV.
⦁ Experience of working with people with disabilities. Desirable
⦁ Experience of operating a tail lift/ramp safely and securing wheelchairs on the vehicle. Desirable

Job Category : Administrative / Clerical
Location : Swale House, Swale and Maidstone Borough Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £13.75

Licensing officer role – this role is for either a licensing officer, or someone with admin experience who is keen to learn about licensing. The role will be working with an experienced team who are able to provide training on the licensing specifics, provided the other skills required are met (IT, organizational).
This is a hybrid role, with 1-2 days within the office

Job Category : Human Resources
Location : London Borough of Newham
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £21.00

JobProvision of high quality and consistent HR advice guidance and support in a cost effective and efficient way that positively impacts customer effectiveness, efficiency and confidence
Ensure all customers receive effective HR advice in a cost effective and efficient way, and are given consistent advice on the interpretation of HR policies, procedures and legislation
Deliver a responsive and flexible service that supports organisational and service priorities
Provide a high quality professional HR service, advising and leading on a range of HR activity e.g.
complex casework, transformational change, workforce planning, and resourcing solutions under the direction of the Senior HR Consultants
Support the development of HR policies, procedures and change programmes
Purpose

Essential:
Experience of working closely with Trade Unions
Able to multitask and work to strict deadlines
Excellent time management
Able to coach people managers on HR Policy and Procedures and best practice

Desirable:
Experience of working within a “front facing” environment within HR
Previous experience working for a Council
Negotiating skills

Job Category : Interims
Location : Newham Dockside, London Borough of Newham
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £380.39 per day

Levelling Up Fund – Programme Manager
Newham Council is excited to offer this new opportunity to an experienced project and programme management professional with a proven track record for governance, management and delivery.
Newham is to be the recipient of substantial funding from Central Government for two ‘Levelling Up’ fund submissions made earlier in the year and a substantial proportion of the funding is for projects to be delivered by the Environment and Sustainable Transport team, including an active travel corridor, low traffic neighbourhoods, healthy school street schemes, urban greening and other walking and cycling connectivity improvements.
Now that these bids have been confirmed as successful, the E&ST department therefore needs an experienced interim programme manager lead for a period of 3-6 months to:
• Confirm financial management arrangements with Govt. for the bids and for the individual projects in each, including budget management and invoicing and cost reclaim processes.
• Develop a delivery and resource plan for the projects within the timescales set by MHCLG, including the job specifications of the roles required and the team structure.
• Co-ordinate programme and project inputs across the department to ensure the successful and efficient delivery of all elements of the programme
• Implement a robust governance process, to effectively monitor and make decisions on the progress of projects and for succinct reporting on each scheme in the programme, to both a Departmental Levelling Up project board and also to an overarching Council-wide board
We would expect the successful candidate to have a proven ability to deliver a large, multi-million multi-project programme containing disparate projects types to time and budget, and to have the necessary organisational and interpersonal skills to ensure the smooth delivery of the programme outcomes. Experience in the area of transport, highways and greenspace would be an advantage as the projects are focussed in these areas, but is not considered essential if the other organisational and management attributes needed for the role can be demonstrated.
The role will also require the co-ordination of project team members spread widely across the organisation and the preparation of all necessary reports to Cabinet, Lead Members and the funding body as required for project delivery, so good multi-level communication and adaptable people skills will also be important for this role.
This is a one-off opportunity to be involved in the delivery of a truly transformational investment in Newham, with a real chance to impact positively on people’s lives with a level of funding not usually at a Local Authority’s disposal.
KNOWLEDGE:

Knowledge of risk management and experience of managing risk
Awareness of information governance issues and legislation
An understanding of the political context and environment.
An understanding of procurement processes and principles
EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS
Educated to degree level or equivalent level of work experience relevant to the field.

EXPERIENCE:
Experience of delivering large, complex, multi-stakeholder programmes using proven programme management techniques.

Financial awareness and budget management experience.

Extensive knowledge of innovative equality and diversity interventions.

Awareness of their own responsibilities and accountabilities when working at senior management level and experience of engaging with stakeholders, including in a political environment.

Understanding the organisation’s vision and goals and is able to translate this into effective service delivery and business innovation at a senior level and with partners.

Providing clear measures of success and delivering constructive performance feedback in order to achieve identified aspirations and outcomes for service users.

Job Category : Admin & Clerical
Location : Badminton Road Council Offices, South Gloucestershire Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £10.62

We are looking for 3 months, full time (37hrs), covering comprehensive minute taking/ note taking in the child protection team. We are looking for a very experienced note taker that is able able to deal with confidential and sensitive information.

Job Category : Admin & Clerical
Location : Civic Offices, Vale of Glamorgan Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £10.81

To provide sickness cover for the sheltered scheme at Fairoaks,
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

⦁ Undertake key responsibilities for a caseload of clients within the sheltered scheme to promote independent living and safety in their homes.
⦁ Co-ordinate support services from other agencies, carers and relatives as necessary within the Sheltered Housing Scheme.
⦁ To make daily contact with tenants as required, being proactive in checking on their welfare in line with their individual support needs.
⦁ To ensure the designated scheme is linked to the relevant alarm response system, and to maintain regular liaison with the staff in relation to any tenant, including making referrals for dispersed alarms where required.
⦁ To respond to emergencies as they occur.
⦁ To seek, build and maintain partnerships with external agencies providing services. To utilise those services to provide maximum benefit for clients and to use the relationship to promote the council’s sheltered schemes and services.
⦁ To develop and maintain an up to date and extensive knowledge of service available to the client group and be able to signpost tenants to these services and empower them to make use of them independently.
⦁ To advocate on behalf of clients where required to ensure that they receive services to which they are entitled.
⦁ To complete, maintain and review all records for sheltered schemes and all clients to a high standard; including support plans, risk assessments, daily logs, personal files, emergency details, building and fire records and monitoring information (e.g. outcomes monitoring required by the Supporting People Team).
To develop protocols , guidance and procedures for the use of on site facilities to include the laundry, guest room, fitness suite and any IT or

Job Category : Admin & Clerical
Location : Priory House, Central Bedfordshire Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £16.67

To set up and assist with the preparation of admission appeals and committee meetings including preparing agendas and reports, management of databases, performance information and communicating with Council officers and members of the public.
Supporting the committees team to ensure that statutory deadlines for appeals decisions are adhered to enabling timely decision-making.
To initiate and under take relevant work arising from meetings as appropriate.
To encourage and support the use of digitisation in meetings, supporting members and the public to access the democratic process through digital means.

Job Category : Social Care – Unqualified
Location : Barry Community Enterprise Centre (BCEC), Vale of Glamorgan Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:30
Salary: £13.71

Vale Communities for Work (CfW) is an ‘employability-support’ programme funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Welsh Government and managed by the Vale of Glamorgan Council.

We provide employment support to people in the Vale of Glamorgan seeking work (and full-time work if they work part-time).

We are seeking up to 2 Mentors on a temporary basis until at least 31/3/22 to help us manage the increase in our workload due to the impact of the Covid crisis on the local employment market and the resultant increase in the number of people looking for work in the Vale of Glamorgan area.

Our CfW Mentors support participants on the programme to look for work by;
• Providing 1:1 bespoke support, initially via phone, with face-to-face support (hopefully available again very soon) in a safe, local setting.
• Creating or improving their CV.
• Providing support with completing Job Applications (especially online).
• Improving ‘job-search’ techniques and information e.g. by identifying the best websites.
• Improving our participants’ interview technique and confidence.
• Assisting participants decide on the best training course options.
• Providing expertise about career options.
• Passing on general and specific employment-sector knowledge, particularly in respect of the local labour market.

We receive over 70% of our referrals from Barry Jobcentre Plus and have excellent working relationships with the staff.

We also have good working relationships with a number of partner Agencies, for example;
• Colleagues from other Depts within the Vale of Glamorgan Council
• DWP staff
• Careers Wales/Working Wales
• other employability-support staff/Agencies who work locally in the Vale
• local Housing Associations
• CfW teams in other Local Authority areas
• Welsh Government colleagues.

For this position, we are seeking candidates who;
• Have experience of supporting people to find work or improve their career
• Are experienced at Mentoring individuals to reach their potential
• Have experience of working in a community development setting

Job Category : Driving
Location : Newton Road Depot, Liverpool, L13 3HS, Liverpool City Council
Hours Per Week : 22:00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:30
Salary: £10.58

Liverpool City Council is recruiting 10 part time SEN drivers to drive vehicles in a safe and considerable manner and ensure the safety of all passengers both inside and outside the vehicle.

The main responsibilities of the role will be:

1. Working on a part time basis on split shift during peak periods of the day, to work under the general direction and supervision of transport and other authorised officers. The working hours will be based on the school or resource base opening and closing times.
2. The role is to collect and be responsible for vulnerable pupils or adults attending schools or other resource bases. Some routes may include collection of a Passenger Assistant before the first pupil
3. To undertake the driving of any vehicle (within their class of licence) attached to the department and to carry out all duties connected therewith, in an efficient, economical, and orderly manner. Also, the safe transportation of fellow employees and any other authorised personal.
4. To be responsible for assisting service users from their home to the vehicle; securing them safely during the journey and assisting them from the vehicle at their destination. Also, to be responsible for ensuring the safe return of service users to their home address.
5. To follow the most appropriate or economical route based on advice from supervisors.
6. To ensure Risk Assessment control measures identified on the route run-sheets are implemented and adhered to.
7. To be always sympathetic and courteous to service users carried in the vehicle and to treat their relatives with who contact is made in a similar manner.
8. To be responsible for the cleanliness of the inside and outside of the vehicles attached to the section.
9. To be responsible for the Vehicle Daily Checks (including walk-around checks), fuelling, and oiling of vehicles and servicing the vehicle with air, water.
10. To receive service-based training as required to ensure safe and compliant transport of passengers. To adhere to the guidance set out in the Transport Service handbook.
11. To complete daily run sheets fully and any other documentation associated with the operation of the Transport Service.
12. To report promptly on the form provided any incident whatsoever in which a vehicle of the Transport Section is involved in, irrespective of whether or not a third party is concerned. Also, any accidents to service users or staff while in the care of the department must be reported in the same way.
13. To be responsible for wearing a uniform if provided, also protective clothing in a clean and tidy condition at all times when on duty.
14. To receive instructions and supervision from schools or other authorised while on their premises.
15. To carry out any other driving duties within the scope of licence entitlement during quiet operating periods.
16. To develop the City Council’s commitment to equal opportunities and to promote nondiscriminatory practices in all aspects of work undertaken.
17. It must be understood that every employee has a responsibility to ensure that their work complies with all statutory requirements and with Standing Orders and Financial Regulations of the City Council and ensure that all work functions are undertaken accordance with health and safety legislation, codes of practice, and the City Council’s safety plan.
18. This job description is not intended to be either prescriptive or exhaustive, it is issued as a framework to outline the main areas of responsibility at the time of writing.
19. Develop the City Council’s commitment to equal opportunities and to promote nondiscriminatory practices in all aspects of work undertaken

Job Category : Social Care – Qualified
Location : Lynton House, Redbridge Council
Hours Per Week : 35.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £22.47

Job Category : Social Care – Qualified
Location : County Hall North, West Sussex County Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:30

We will pay either £35 per hour and £150 per week expenses, or £38 per hour (no expenses).

In this varied and challenging role, you will work with both Health & Social Care colleagues to provide an excellent Social Work Service.
In West Sussex we have a real focus on strengths-based approaches and community led support; both yourself and the team will be working hard to support people to regain their skills and independence following their hospital admission, wherever possible.
As an experienced Social Worker, your focus will be on delivering statutory social work service. This includes undertaking complex work, and ensuring work is delivered in a timely manner. You will work collaboratively with individuals and effectively into the future. You will remain up to date and compliant with all relevant legislation and adhere to organisational procedures, policies, codes of conduct and the values of West Sussex. You will also carry a small complex case load and supervise a small number of staff within the team, including supporting our duty function.

The role will involve you working with the Northern area Social work teams. These teams comprise the Mid-Sussex, Horsham and Crawley teams, working out of County Hall North and Crawley Library (if designated to work with the Crawley team). To provide an accountable statutory social work service to those people who access or need the service to include assessment, planning and review. The worker is expected to work within organisational, policy and legislative requirements.

Key Accountabilities
•Act as a professional representative for the service by working with a focus on delivering services to those people who access or need the service, acting with integrity, professionalism and respect on behalf of the organisation, ensuring at all times that the needs of individuals are paramount.
• We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
• Prepare for, and work with individuals, families, carers, groups and communities to assess their needs and circumstances, implement care packages and evaluate and monitor progress considering best value care package options.
• Participate in a help desk/duty system and manage a caseload under regular supervision. Assess needs, risks and options taking into account legal and other requirements. Work effectively in partnership with other staff and voluntary agencies and gain a good understanding of all the relevant health, voluntary and private services in the area.
• Report any allegation or suspicions of abuse or potential abuse of a vulnerable person to an immediate manager or supervisor. Contribute to Safeguarding Investigations and child/adult protection planning where appropriate.
• Use professional knowledge to negotiate with and on behalf of those people who access or need the service and with a wide range of providers and other professionals.
• Ensure effective implementation of department policies and procedures in line with statutory responsibilities.
• Maintain accurate records of all work undertaken and produce case reports and correspondence for a variety of audiences including meetings, conferences, court, panels and other agencies.
• To contribute to initiatives and development work as required.
• To develop effective working relationships and communicate effectively with those people who access or need the service, families, carers, colleagues and other professionals in order to deliver the appropriate interventions.
• Prepare for, attend, contribute and participate fully in supervision.
• Support Family Aides/Community Support Workers and sessional workers in providing care and support for vulnerable people and their families as required. Assist in supervision and mentoring of students as appropriate.
• Ensure the best value use of resources particularly when commissioning work.
• Responsible for small expenditures from an agreed budget when appropriate. E.g. making necessary purchases in relation to situations arising with people who access or need the service.
• Responsible for the care of, accuracy, confidentiality, security and maintenance of all individuals’ records and related manual and/or computerised information, including highly sensitive and confidential adult/child protection issues.
• Support equality and diversity and respect individuals, carers and colleagues regardless of gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or ethnic origin. Challenge oppressive practice and behaviour.
• Remain up to date and compliant with all relevant legislation and adhere to organisational procedures, policies and professional codes of conduct in order to uphold a high quality seamless service. Identify own continuing professional development needs and strive to meet these.
• Equalities – Supports equality and diversity and respects anyone in contact with, working for and using the services provided by West Sussex County Council regardless of gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or ethnic origin.

It is a generic SW role – They will be undertaking general social work within a locality team as per the role profile. We work with customers from 18 to end of life irrespective of conditions.

Work that will be undertaking will include but not limited to :
Adult Safeguardings
Care Act Assessments and reviews
Mental capacity Assessments
Working and contributing to a duty rota as required

The candidate will be expected to spend 2-3 days per week doing visits, and the rest of the time can be worked from home.