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Job Category : IT
Location : Monaghan Row, Newry, Mourne and Down District Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £14.37
Main Purpose of Post/Job Summary

Act as part of a multidisciplinary IT Department contributing to the management and delivery of IT services, with a focus on coordination and administration, and support for local service request fulfilment.
Duties and Responsibilities

1. Provide operational and administrative support across the range of IT Department functions:
   a. Assist the IT Manager in the development of IT service delivery processes, including the development of IT related standard operating procedures and policies to enable effective operational management of the IT Department
   b. Contribute to the coordination and administration of IT Department operational processes (e.g. team documentation, finance, risk management, procurement etc.)
2. Respond to and deal with service fulfilment requests, in accordance with agreed procedures, including local user, service, equipment and site supports.
3. To provide advice and assistance to Elected Members, staff and associated groups on all IT matters that contribute to the efficient running of the service.
4. Maintain a register of all IT assets
5. Maintain appropriate stock of IT equipment and consumables
6. Where directed, oversee works provided by third parties and contractors ensuring compliance with agreed processes
7. To administer user and system accounts and security features to protect information while allowing appropriate access to users.
8. To support council training in Information Technology through identification of training needs and the provision of ‘in house’ training.
9. Support Information Management governance to ensure safe, effective and legally compliant use of Council data
10. Contribute to the development of information management processes and promote best practice within the organisation
11. Provide IT support in response to the invocation of the Council Emergency or Disaster Recovery Plans.
12. Responsible for temporarily assigned staff and the co-ordination and overseeing of students supervised and the administration of all relevant records, in line with the placement.

Job Category : Legal (Specialist)
Location : London Borough of Hillingdon
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £44.05

Plannig Lawyer undertkaing full spectrum of local authority legal planning work

Job Category : Admin & Clerical
Location : Eastbourne Town Hall, Lewes and Eastbourne Councils
Hours Per Week : 37.50
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 08:30
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £10.61

Job Category : Social Care Qualified
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: £24.38

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• This is an essential OT role within Adult Social Care, where you will be responsible for carrying out OT assessments needs and providing advice and guidance to our service users. You will liaise and work closely with contacts from different sectors, health and the voluntary sector, working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring that communication is effective, and that knowledge and best practice are shared.
• You will review and monitor care plans and the quality of service provision and respond to changes need. This includes, develop, and evaluate reablement programs as part of care packages ensuring that programs to support independence are implemented.
• You will be responsible for managing your own caseloads or specific projects to ensure specialist inputs are obtained and effective outcomes achieved.
• You will raise awareness of a range of care issues and their implications and carry out risk assessments and complete safe methods of work practice guides, in order to ensure that needs are assessed, and appropriate action is taken.

Full clean driver’s licence and access to a car (or able to use another appropriate means of travel) to travel to a range of locations including home visits.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience

1. You will hold or be working towards a professional qualification e.g. degree, NVQ 4 or equivalent
2. You will have relevant experience of working in similar service areas.
3. You will demonstrate knowledge of relevant legislation, regulations, codes of practice, processes and procedures.
4. If relevant: you will have a proven ability to supervise and allocate work to others, monitoring their performance and taking corrective action.
5. You will have well developed interpersonal and communication skills to build relationships and engage successfully with colleagues and service users.
6. You will have financial experience or training to carry out associated financial tasks.
7. 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.
   Able to demonstrate the Council’s values and behaviours.

Job Category : Interims
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: £160.00 per day

Under the direction of Performance and Information Manager you will manage and lead a team of information analysts responsible for the Council’s Adult social care functions.
You will lead the development and delivery of strategies for the provision and use of management information in our social care functions. This includes data analysis and presentation to support policy formulation, decision making and reporting of performance measures and benchmarking, as well as the development and delivery of data to support financial monitoring and service improvement. You will also advise commissioners on the effective performance monitoring of contracted and commissioned services and support the delivery of the JSNA.

Job Category : IT
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: £19.47

Under the direction of the Performance and Information Manager you work across the Council’s Adult and Children’s social care and Education teams to improve the reporting and information recording capabilities of the Department.
You will be working closely with Performance Managers and Operational colleagues to develop reports in line with operational and strategic requirements, further strengthening our Performance Management Framework.
Using your systems and technical knowledge you will produce and develop reports via our SQL and PowerBI systems, in order to satisfy existing and evolving requirements of the operations teams, enhancing our reporting suite to support service delivery and statutory functions.
By identifying best practice, product options, enhancements and internal practice improvements, you will recognise, promote and support the implementation of enhancements across our main Social Care and Education systems.
The implementation of system enhancements, in collaboration with senior operations staff, service users and ITD will not only ensure functionality is adequately utilised but also further enhance our reporting abilities.

The position will involve: –
(a) Substantial contact with staff at all levels throughout the Department, including extensive consultation and liaison with senior management/establishment managers.
(b) Regular close working with colleagues in other Council Departments on joint developments and projects
Knowledge, Skills and Experience

1. Significant experience within an organisation, delivering similar services.
2. You will have a relevant professional or equivalent degree level qualification or you will have equivalent relevant experience.
3. You will demonstrate extensive knowledge and experience of contributing to developing processes, procedures and/or projects
4. You will have well-developed interpersonal skills for persuading, influencing and be able to build relationships and communicate effectively with customers.
5. You will have good literacy and report writing skills.
6. You will be able to understand and interpret complex data and provide solutions and recommendations to achieve appropriate outcomes.
7. You will have good analytical, numeracy and reasoning skills.
8. You will be able to work flexibly, cope with competing demands through good time management and work under pressure.
9. You will have the ability to monitor and or report on budgets budgets/financial information/resources.
10. You will have a good level of general IT skills and the ability to use appropriate specialist in-house software packages.
11. If relevant: you will be able to assist in the management and develop a team.
    Able to demonstrate the Council’s values and behaviours.

Job Category: Social Care & Health Non-Qualified
Location: RIVER PARK HOUSE, London Borough of Haringey
Hours Per Week: 36.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:30
Salary: £17.57

Looking for a Reviewing officer – Unqualified social worker.
However qualified social workers especially newly qualified who wish to apply are welcome to apply.
However willing to have a qualified social worker with no post qualifying experience. 

Roles and Responsibilities:
• To complete Reviews people with LD living at home with a care package
• Residential and Nursing placements
• Supported living placements
• Shared Lives
   OR 
• To work within the Duty Team consisting (social worker and manager(Senior Practitioner)  to complete the following 
• Answering phone and actioning appropriately
• Receiving and sending emails and actioning appropriately.
• Recording on telephone and email conversations Data base
• Making referrals to other agencies and other team within the organisation such brokerage, Finance Team, appointeeship, safeguarding team 

Job Category: Finance – Unqualified
Location: 2 Hillman Street, Hackney Council
Hours Per Week: 36.00
Start Date: Immediate Start 
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:00
Salary: £18.76

Job Summary:
A position exists for a full time credit controller, working 36 Hours per week. Candidates must have two years credit control experience to be considered.

PURPOSE OF THE JOB:
• To ensure the council’s sundry debts are collected on time and to contribute to achieving maximum income collection.
• To ensure that Hackney’s sales ledgers are maintained to a high standard of accuracy.

Service Specific Accountabilities:
• Making contact with customers by telephone, letter and email to ensure invoice payments are received within credit terms.
• Establishing contact with both small and large regular customers and maintaining a relationship to ensure invoices are paid on time.
• Regularly reporting the status of top debtor’s accounts to Senior Managers, to ensure high value debts are continually reviewed, and escalated to management where intervention is required throughout the financial year.
• Contacting customers whose invoices are overdue, stressing the Council’s credit terms and identifying any query that may be preventing payment.
• Escalating queries to senior levels within the organisation where necessary until satisfactory responses are received.
• Taking payments by debit or credit card over the telephone, ensuring compliance with the council’s data protection policy.

Experience and Working Knowledge:
• Sound relevant credit control experience in a large organisation.
• Experience of investigating and resolving customer queries and advising service managers.
• Basic knowledge of local government functions.
• Thorough knowledge of computerised debt collection systems.
• Experience of taking payments over the telephone.
• Experience of using Microsoft Office software (Excel/Word/Outlook).
• Knowledge of legal and enforcement processes in respect of debt recovery.
• Experience of setting up direct debits over the telephone and trained in direct debit rules and regulations.
• Experience of achieving performance targets in order to continuously improve services.
• Understanding of how income collection and allocation processes work.
• Experience of working in teams that takes into account the needs of diverse customer groups.
• Experience of reconciling customer accounts.

Skills:
• Excellent customer care skills.
• Able to keep calm and remain professional in the face of irate customers.
• Excellent telephone and writing skills when contacting customers.
• The customer base is diverse and the ability to communicate fully and effectively is paramount.
• Able to plan, prioritise and organise workloads in order to meet corporate objectives and customer needs.
• Ability to reconcile both simple and complex accounts.
• Able to apply direct debit rules and regulations.
• Ability to assist in the implementation of new initiatives to support corporate objectives and customer needs.
• Ability to understand and resolve customer queries from a diverse customer base. 
• Good numeracy skills.
• Ability to understand the services being invoiced so as to communicate clearly with both service areas and customers.
• Ability to focus on what is important and make decisions based on available information.
• Good problem solving skills.
• Ability to build effective working relationships with both large and small customers.

Job Category: Social Care & Health Non-Qualified
Location: Civic Centre, Bromley Council
Hours Per Week: 36.00
Start Date: Immediate start
Start Time: 08:30
End Time: 17:00
Salary: £357.60 per day

Focus is on Learning Disabilities:
• Length up to 6 months
• Hybrid with 2 days per week in office

Head of Commissioning Commissioning Learning Disability Services Working with ICB to develop integrated learning disability strategy and services Working with contracted providers to deliver the best outcomes to residents with a learning disability and carers Manage a small team of commissioning staff.

MAIN PURPOSE: 
• To lead and manage the commissioning function (strategy, service design, procurement and contract management) for aspects of education, adult and children social care, public health, housing and health services within the ECHS Department.
• To lead and manage a team of officers responsible for commissioning/market management and health and social care transformation programmes.
• To develop and implement commissioning strategies in order to improve outcomes for children and adults and their families and carers in line with best value principles.
• To consult, inform and communicate with all key stakeholders on all aspects of the delivery of commissioning activity.
• To ensure compliance with national and local regulations, processes and procedures, and ensuring consistency between strategic service delivery plans and commissioning strategies.
• This is one of two current posts at Head of Service level managing aspects of the education, social care, housing and health service markets. 
• The post-holder will be accountable to the ECHS Director of Programmes and for joint projects with health will have dotted-line accountability to the Director of Transformation and Innovation at Bromley CCG.

SKILLS & ABILITIES:
• Proven ability to operate at a senior level in the organisation and when liaising with partners.
• Proven ability to manage and lead on complex projects under pressure.
• Excellent communication skills both oral and written to effectively disseminate information at all levels within the organisation.
• Proven ability to work on own initiative, managing and prioritising workload and making decisions after exploring the options and considering the implications.
• Proven project management skills to ensure the successful delivery of projects.
• Ability to assess and evaluate risk.
• Ability to build effective working relationships at all levels within the organisation and with the Council’s service providers.
• Confidence to manage internal and external project participants ensuring projects are delivered to timescale and budget.
• Proven ability to mentor and guide staff in the responsibilities of project roles, motivating others to maximise their performance.
• Ability to add value through project management.
• Proven ability to produce and analyse financial data.
• Understanding of financial systems used in Bromley.

QUALIFICATIONS:
• Professional and/or management qualification (desirable).

KNOWLEDGE:
• Strong understanding of  commissioning and procurement.
• Knowledge of the range of issues pertaining to commissioning education, housing, care and health services.
• Understanding of the key issues facing local government.
• Understanding of the wider integration agenda with Health and other partners.
• Knowledge of the commissioning cycle and best practice in commissioning.

EXPERIENCE:
• Experience of managing commissioning activity ideally within a local government or similar setting.
• Strong staff management experience.
• Proven track record of providing high level advice and briefings both written and verbal to senior managers and elected Members.
• Evidence of managing change and improvement effectively in an organisation.
• Strong leadership and experience of delivering improvements by successfully project managing complex and contentious projects.
• Experience of working in a strategic role implementing best practice in commissioning.

Job Category: Social Care – Unqualified
Location: County Hall, Cardiff Council
Hours Per Week: 37.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:00
Salary: £12.47

About the Service:
• Do you want to work in a meaningful role supporting children to meet their individual needs and overcome challenges helping them to live full and happy lives?
• This is an exciting opportunity to join Ty Storrie our Residential Home, which provides short break accommodation for young people with additional learning needs.
• In addition to making a positive impact on the lives of our children, there are generous enhancements paid for evenings, weekend working, Bank Holidays and sleeping in duties, additional to your salary.
• You will receive an additional salary enhancement of 30% after 8pm weekdays, 50% weekends and £38 per sleep in.

About the Job:
• It takes a special type of person to dedicate their career to supporting others. Your patience, empathy and caring nature would make you the ideal person to support individuals who use our short break home at Ty Storrie. If you feel you are this type of person, then you are who we are looking for.
• We are looking for individuals to help ensure children and young people receive a high level and quality of individual support throughout their time in our home.
• You will be working within a team supporting children and young people to achieve positive outcomes, build appropriate relationships and have fun, being there at every step of their development. You need to be willing to learn and share experiences, skills and knowledge whilst also putting children and young people at the centre of your role.

What we are looking for from you:
• As a Residential Childcare Officer, you will play an essential part in providing direct care and effective support to young people in our short break home to enable them to achieve positive outcomes in line with their childcare personal plan.
• Every day is different, and you will face new challenges, we need staff members with a can-do attitude, that are willing to go above and beyond for the young people in their care.
• We need our team to help recognise and promote young people’s individuality, uniqueness and diverse needs whilst providing a nurturing and positive environment.

Job Category: Social Care – Qualified
Location: Shropshire Council
Hours Per Week: 7.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:00
Salary: £19.98

SSW/ Lead Practitioner post holder is directly accountable to the Senior Lead Practitioner and will: 
• Manage day to day practice lead for the hospital avoidance and discharge agenda.
• Drive the operational implementation of national and local strategic objective of hospital avoidance, discharge and reablement.
• Responsibility for the maintenance of hospital avoidance and discharge systems which demonstrate adherence to legislative, national and corporate requirements, performance and finance.
• Accountable for maintaining an effective operating model in delivering hospital avoidance and discharge service to vulnerable adults.
• Drive the work of hospital avoidance and discharge through multi agency partnerships and liaising with Senior Managers as required.
• Implement and review information systems for the planning, commissioning and monitoring the activities of hospital avoidance and discharge service for vulnerable adults.

Summary of role:
• To have knowledge and understanding of relevant legislative and regulatory framework and Government initiatives relating to your service area, including safeguarding, and the needs of vulnerable adults.
• To have knowledge of the principles and responsibility of information sharing and data protection in line with legislation.
• To be responsible for the day to day management of a service area, including practice, standards, quality and performance.
• To undertake specific duties and responsibilities determined by the line manager and senior managers to enable the team to achieve its goals and objectives.
• To work with the line manager to ensure day to day functioning of the team in operational matters.
• Proactively promote partnership working and integration within and outside of the council.
• To have staff supervisory responsibility.
• To have designated budgetary/budget monitoring responsibility.

Job Category: Social Care – Qualified
Location: Mount McKinley Building, Shropshire Council
Hours Per Week: 37.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 08:45
End Time: 17:00
Salary: £26.48

Duty and assessment social worker – complete social work assessments, S47 enquiries, S7 and S37 reports.  Also required to attend Initial Conferences and CIN meetings

Job Category: Social & Healthcare Qualified
Location: County Hall – Main, Wiltshire Council
Hours Per Week: 37.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 08:45
End Time: 17:15
PAY RATE is £35 – £40.99 per hour depending on experience

Support and Safeguarding West team.
We have recently won the National Award for the Safeguarding of Children at the National Children and Young People’s Awards 2020 and we are looking for bright, innovative people to join us!

Why Wiltshire? 
• We are a good authority with a good reputation.
• We have a progressive digital culture which enables us to spend more time with our families and give us flexibility.
• A ‘One Journey’ model which means you stay with the child from the front door right the way through to permanence if required.
Our social workers are passionate about this model and the continuity it provides children, young people and their families and carers. 
• We have a visible and accessible management team who pride themselves on offering quality monthly supervision through reflective, open and strengths-based support.
• We have generous training opportunities in response to the national and local picture including:
– NAAS Social Work accreditation
– Through our teaching partnership with Bournemouth University, we offer you teaching opportunities, masterclasses and more
– We have close links with Social Work England who provide support to our workforce
• We offer creative opportunities for development including practice development lead roles and opportunities to train and develop practitioners and become involved in development projects
• We offer secondment opportunity for development and experience.
• We have a clear development pathway which is in line with the Professional Capabilities Framework 
• We are part of an innovative project operating a Contextual Safeguarding model in partnership with the University of Bedfordshire.
• Our approach has been praised in a recent Government sexual abuse strategy report.

Our offer to you: 
• We offer light, spacious and modern working environments allowing flexibility to work at any of our hubs where you will have access to free, priority parking. 
• We offer a hybrid working model, so you will also have more opportunities to work remotely from home or across the county. 
• We have a range of roles including full time, part time and compressed 9- day fortnight hours.
• Access to wide wellbeing support service available for practitioners which includes a brand-new support service to reduce the likelihood of secondary trauma in our staff.
• Multi-disciplinary team support including key workers who will co-work some cases with you as well as access to administrative services to free you up to focus on spending time with families. 
• Excellent local government pension scheme.
• The opportunity to work for a forward-thinking council with a strong focus on staff engagement.

Job Category: Building Services & Maintenance
Location: Civic House, North Yorkshire County Council
Hours Per Week: 37.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 08:30
End Time: 17:30
Salary: £21.50  

Main Purpose: 
To undertake repair and maintenance to the Council’s void property housing stock and assist the Councils In House Maintenance Team in providing repairs to its tenanted housing stock and corporate properties on an ad hoc basis. 

Main Accountabilities:
⦁ Carry out maintenance and repair work within the Councils Void Properties as per works order specification
⦁ Carry out reasonable allied duties as and when required
⦁ Comply with requirements relating to vehicle use & maintenance
⦁ Make full use of the Council’s multi-skilled agreement

Maintenance and repair works:
⦁ To carry out work described within our void property works programme as per our clients survey requirements.
⦁ Carry out the required work within the timescales and budget constraints provided, taking into account safe working practices and complying with Harrogate Borough Council’s agreed standards / service specifications.
⦁ Liaises and assists all Property Services staff to ensure the efficient and effective co-ordination of all maintenance works.

Reasonable allied duties:
⦁ Recording and monitoring of supplied equipment as necessary
⦁ All provisions in regard to Health & safety
⦁ All duties associated with the Supervision and management of labour
⦁ Be part of the “out of hours” emergency call out rota.

Vehicle use and maintenance:
⦁ Carry out routine safety checks as required
⦁ Ensure vehicle is well maintained from both a mechanical perspective as well as a presentational one.
⦁ Drive the vehicle; maximise fuel economy, minimise wear and tear and provide safe regard to other road users.

Multi skill agreement:
It is recognised that multi-skilled operatives provide more flexibility in delivery of a reactive service and therefore Harrogate Borough Council encourages tradesmen with a core skill to train and become competent in other skill areas to ensure we make full use of this agreement.

Job Category: Interims
Location: Hackney Service Centre, Hackney Council
Hours Per Week: 36.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:00
Salary: £292.35  per day 

This post exists to provide organisational leadership and to influence practice in the Corporate Property Services area of the Council and will mainly provide construction related procurement support and managing of major works, minor works. repairs and maintenance procurements in this area.

The role will report to Category Lead – construction and environment but will also have dotted reporting line to the Head of DLO – Building Maintenance and will focus mainly on the procurement of repairs and maintenance contracts, providing holistic support to the DLO – Building Maintenance In respect of their procurements and commissioning, supplier relations, contract management, and through to contributing to quality assurance and service planning.  

The post holder will contribute to commercial strategies, governance systems and procurement best practice through both strategic and operational activities, and will promote the benefits of procurement, demonstrating to managers and heads of service how effective procurement can improve service provision and add value to the Council tenants and leaseholders.

A significant part of this role will be to work with Category Lead – construction and environment to lead or contribute to the DLO – Building Maintenance development in the following areas:

a) enhance construction procurement support to the DLO – Building Maintenance
b) provision of procurement support in the development of the DLO – Building Maintenance and oversee strategy and its implementation including procurement of essential contracts identified as part of the delivery of the strategy 
c) oversee contracts negotiations and the contract management for major works and services procured by the DLO – Building Maintenance

DLO BUILDING MAINTENANCE

Job Category : Legal
Location : Hackney Service Centre, Hackney Council
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £26.48

A housing lawyer is required to work for a busy Local Authority Legal Services Department (London) in Housing Disrepair.
PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

⦁ To manage a caseload of routine and non-routine legal matters with minimum supervision.

⦁ To provide clear, consistent and accurate legal advice to clients in the Council’s services.

EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

⦁ Qualified solicitor or barrister (Supreme Court of England and Wales/English Bar) or Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives
⦁ Experience of undertaking a caseload of both routine and non-routine legal matters
⦁ Experience of providing clear, consistent and accurate legal advice to clients on the interpretation of the law
⦁ Experience of using a case management system.
⦁ Experience of undertaking a caseload of complex legal matters
⦁ Experience in one or more of the following areas of law relevant to the team in which the post holder will be working:

⦁ Adult social services
⦁ Children’s Services
⦁ Employment
⦁ Environmental law
⦁ General litigation
⦁ Housing
⦁ Licensing
⦁ Local government
⦁ Planning
⦁ Policy
⦁ Procurement and contracts
⦁ Property
⦁ Prosecutions
⦁ Regeneration
⦁ Trading Standards and consumer protection

⦁ Experience of advocacy
⦁ Experience of researching and presenting complex legal arguments
⦁ Experience of achieving chargeable hours targets.
⦁ Experience of providing legal services to clients to agreed standards and of implementing client care policies and initiatives.
⦁ Understanding of the workings of local government and the issues affecting a multi-cultural inner city area.
⦁ IT literate

SKILLS

⦁ Ability to provide high quality legal services to clients across the Council.
⦁ Ability to manage a demanding caseload of legal matters
⦁ Ability to achieve chargeable hours targets
⦁ Ability to represent the Council in courts and tribunals
⦁ Client care skills
⦁ Ability to comply with practice management and other professional standards
⦁ Ability to use a case management system effectively and record at least 1200 chargeable hours per annum
⦁ Highly developed communication skills both oral and written
⦁ Influencing and negotiation skills
⦁ Presentation skills
⦁ Ability to work as part of a team
⦁ Ability to embrace and implement the Council’s Equalities Policy

Job Category : Social Care – Qualified
Location : Nutgrove Villa, 2nd Floor, Knowsley Borough Council
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £12.00

Our Child Protection Service has 5 teams and we are recruiting a number of family support workers for social work support within these teams to complete direct work with children and families.

The role will include parenting sessions, wishes and feelings of children, home visits and school visits. DBS is required for this role.

We would anticipate that the main visits would be Monday to Friday 9-5 however, we expect some flexibility to work on weekends and from 8am to 10pm when required for families. However, the hours are 36 hours per week

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: £22.60

Senior Social Worker required to undertake lead professional role in representing Adult Services at the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARAC) and the Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) and providing Senior cover to First Contact Team 3 days weekly.
Experience
⦁ Experience of supervising students and/or staff in a statutory front-line social care or health setting.
⦁ Proven supervision skills, utilising a Reflective Model of practice.
⦁ Evidence of developing and maintaining good working practices with a wide range of customers and other stakeholders.
⦁ Experience of representing the service at multi-agency forums, making informed, sound decisions.
⦁ Experience of working effectively in a high pressure environment.
⦁ Experience of working with Adult service users and Carers.
⦁ Experience of managing complex cases and risk assessments.
⦁ Experience of safeguarding work including chairing of meetings.
⦁ Experience of work in relation to Mental Capacity and best interest decision making.
⦁ Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary inter-agency framework
⦁ Experience of meeting performance targets and delivering service outcomes.

Skills:
⦁ Proven verbal and written communication skills, including the preparation and presentation of detailed reports and correspondence.
⦁ Effective listening skills.
⦁ Ability to deal with conflict and complaints.
⦁ Ability to maintain confidentiality.
⦁ Able to be resilient, handle information with adult safeguarding concerns that can be emotionally challenging for themselves and others.
⦁ Good organisational and supervisory skills.
⦁ Ability to manage, assist in managing and monitoring budgets/financial resources.
⦁ Manages time and prioritises work in an effective and productive way.
⦁ Manages own stress, remaining objective and stable in stressful situations.
⦁ Ability and skills to work alone and in a team.
⦁ Information Technology/computer skills including managing information systems, both paper based and electronic.

Knowledge:
⦁ Detailed understanding of the Care Act and other appropriate legislation.
⦁ Excellent knowledge and understanding of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Deprivation of Liberty safeguards legislation.
⦁ Clear understanding of Young Carers rights and practitioner responsibilities in relation to The Care Act 2014.
⦁ Clear understanding of the importance of information and advice and alternative ways to support identified outcomes – e.g. assisted technologies, health interventions.
Excellent knowledge of Adult Safeguarding, managing complex issues and

Minimum education/ qualifications
⦁ Professional Social Work, qualification as recognised by the HCPC
⦁ Current HCPC registration
⦁ Recent post qualification study
⦁ Evidence of CPD
⦁ Best Interest Assessor award – or willingness to train to gain the qualification
⦁ Approved Mental Health Professional award – (specialist teams)
3 years post qualifying experience in health and/or social care setting

Job Category : Social Care – Unqualified
Location : Claverings Industrial Estate, Enfield Council
Hours Per Week : 35.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:30
End Time : 20:00
Salary: £14.81

We require a full time (35hrs weekly) Senior Enablement Worker to cover a current vacancy. This role plays a vital role in ensuring each Adult we support has a safe assessment of support and care needs completed at the point of hospital discharge.
The role supports the timely discharge for clients and contributes to safe care being delivered. The role supports our requirements under our CQC standards in delivering a safe service. Applicants must have experience of putting together a care plan along with risk assessing and setting up medication Mar sheets within each client’s home, so that our carers know how to support the clients safely. candidates MUST have access to a car and willing to drive around Enfield to do home based assessments, working on a rolling rota to include working one weekend in 4.
THIS IS NOT A SOCIAL WORKER ROLE. we pay mileage to each worker in addition to the hourly salary. The worker will have on average 3 home visits daily to put together a care/support plan, risk assessments and medication MAR sheets on the spot ready for the carers 1st care call on the day. support is provided by an OT. working hours are on a 4 weekly rota pattern working 7 hours daily between the hours of 9.30am and 7.30pm on a rolling rota basis.
Job Specifics – Skills, Experience, Knowledge, Behaviours

Essential:

1. As a regular and intrinsic part of this role requires you to speak to members of the public in English, the ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential and consistent with the requirements of this role. This role also requires you to be polite and courteous when conversing with the public.
2. A Social Care qualification i.e. NVQ/QCF 3 in Social Care or equivalent.
3. Competent when using the IT systems and ability to maintain electronic records in accordance with statutory requirements and data protection policy.
4. Ability to produce personalised support plans, whilst balancing risk when promoting independence
5. Minimum of 2 years’ Experience of supporting vulnerable adults with home and community based personal care and support.
6. Ability to work independently using own initiative and as part of a team while managing workload effectively, prioritising work and adopting a flexible can-do approach to changing demands of the service.
7. Must have a full clean driving licence and assess to a vehicle to travel to homes to complete allocated work
   Desirable:
8. An understanding of legislation and regulations that relate to services providing domiciliary care for vulnerable adults.
9. Understand Trusted assessors or knowledge of how assistive aids and equipment can maximise independence

Qualifications & Professional registration criteria

1. NVQ/QCF or equivalent Level 3 in Adult Social Care
   2.

Job Category : Social Care – Qualified
Location : Mary Woollett Centre, Doncaster Children’s Services Trust
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:30
Salary: £27.71

Provide a local professional social care service for children, young people and families in need.
Contribute to a range of voluntary and statutory social work activities and carry out professional social work tasks in accordance with recognised social work procedures, evidence based practice and professional social work ethics.
Manage a case load of “children in need” “at risk of significant harm and / or “looked after,” adhering to legislative and procedural requirements, ensuring the best possible outcomes for the children concerned.