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Job Category: Social Care - Qualified
Location: Shirehall, Shropshire Council
Hours Per Week: 37.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:00
Salary: £22.58

Do you have the following values in practice?
Trust
Communication
Engagement
Having collective team goals
Ambition to be the best

If so, then this could be the role for you.
Exciting opportunities have arisen for qualified Social Workers to join our award-winning Integrated Community Services (ICS) Team.
The service encourages a ‘Home First’ approach, ‘right care, right time, right place’, working closely with our in-house CQC Registered reablement service, START and partner agencies.
As a Social worker you will be actively involved in facilitating complex discharges from Acute and Community Hospitals within Shropshire and within neighbouring counties to repatriate Shropshire residents back home whilst also providing an Admission Avoidance service.
If you’re someone who wants to do the best job possible, who approaches everything with passion, tenacity, courage and purpose, then we want you to work with us. The job entails undertaking a wide range of duties, so a flexible approach to your work is required. The role includes working under pressure at times of high demands from our system partners and having personal drive.
In collaboration with other professionals make assessment of individual need and implement and monitor the agreed support plan and keeping safe plan, as appropriate.
Consider and assess Mental Capacity and co-ordinate Best Interest decision making forums where appropriate. Documenting decisions and assessments accurately.
The ability to recognise where a Deprivation of Liberty or a restriction may be an issue. Liaising with registered providers when a referral to the DOL’s Team is appropriate.
To contribute to the development of all aspects of the team and the service provided.
To co-ordinate the use of all resources promoting the creative and flexible use of personal budgets to meet eligible needs and accessing community services and activities
To maintain accurate records with relevant, objective, detailed information and with accuracy in a timely manner and in accordance with departmental policies and procedures.
To attend and participate in team meetings, supervision and performance and appraisal and any quality assurance processes.
To take part in duty systems, as required.
To comply with safe systems of work in accordance with the Department’s Health and Safety and Welfare policies and procedures.
To develop an understanding and awareness of issues related to equal opportunities, valuing people and anti-discriminatory practice and to demonstrate this in carrying out your duties.

Responsible for promoting continuing personal and professional/vocational development of self through staff development processes.

We welcome applications from experienced and newly qualified Social Workers. Shropshire has a strong professional development culture and regular supervision is provided. Successful candidates will be aligned to one of the five area teams - Central, North East, North West, South East, South West - but will be required to work flexibly across the county as and when service demand requires.
The post holder will be expected to adopt a flexible attitude to the duties of the post. These may be varied after discussion between the post holder and management team to take account of the changing needs and development of the Service areas.

PLEASE NOTE - COVID ARRANGEMENTS Staff are currently working flexibly, and in line with the national guidance around Covid.

Job Category: Social Care & Health Qualified (Kingston & Richmond)
Location: 42 York Street, Achieving for Children
Hours Per Week: 36.00
Start Date: immediate Start
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:00
Salary: £26.68

Degree in Social Work or CQSA Required

Job Category: Social Care - Qualified
Location: Bridgewood Nursing Home, Enfield Council
Hours Per Week: 36.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:30
Salary: £17.57

Time:
07:30 - 20:00
19:30 - 08:00
70 bedded nursing home comprising of 6 units catering to residential, nursing, nursing dementia, residential dementia, learning disability.

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: £9.57

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Purpose of the Role:
To maintain the cleanliness and hygiene, including laundry, of the home to ensure residents, their families and friends, staff, visitors and contractors are in a clean, safe and comfortable environment.

Essential:

1. Ability to communicate with residents, families and staff
2. Ability to implement and follow basic H & S requirements
3. Ability to work in a team
4. Ability to use powered / industrial equipment after training
5. Ability to read instructions and to complete basic records
6. Ability to complete cleaning and laundry routines

Job Category: Admin / Clerical
Location: Hackney Service Centre, Hackney Council
Hours Per Week: 36.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:00
Salary: £16.01

Information Officer

Based within the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH), you will be part of the single ‘front door’ for Children and Families Services, supporting the provision of an effective safeguarding response to professionals and members of the public who are concerned about a child’s welfare and/or requesting services to meet identified needs.

The post holder will provide robust scrutiny of information held on a range of IT systems, assisting in the timely and efficient processing of referrals, decisions and actions. The post will play a key role in supporting the development of the service and contributing to the overall effectiveness of referral and support mechanisms for services to children in Hackney.

The post holder will carry out a number of key administrative duties vital to the efficient running of the service. Using your skills to prioritise and organise, you will support MASH in the delivery of its objectives and play a key role in the identification and sharing of information to support the management of risk.

Successful candidates will be:
Able to work flexibly, both individually and as part of a team.
Experienced in providing and managing information and dealing with phones calls to the CFS from partner agencies and community.
Able to collate and progress accurate information and to understand demands of the “front door” in CFS.
Able to present complex information in a timely manner and in a variety of formats including Google documents, sheets and Google slides.
Able to communicate confidently, effectively and assertively with people at all levels, verbally and in writing.
Able to manage a variety of demanding tasks simultaneously to achieve deadlines and targets.

Job Category: Management
Location: Powys County Council
Hours Per Week: 37.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:30
Salary: £19.47

£42 an hour all in costs.
Based in South Powys

Main Purpose of Post:
The Registered Manager will set the operational direction and oversee the effective running of the service provision to meet the statement of purpose and children and young people’s needs identified within care and support plans. Golwg y Bannau provides placements to meet the needs of children and young people with complex needs and learning disabilities.

Principal Responsibilities:

1. To manage the provision in order to ensure that the needs and outcomes for children and young people with disabilities and complex needs are achieved. To carry out such other duties, appropriate to the post, as may reasonably be required.
2. To oversee all aspects of the day to day running of the home. This will include ensuring staffing rotas are maintained and that adequate staffing levels are in place, taking account of staff sickness and annual leave commitments. To participate in rota working arrangements where applicable with overall responsibility for managing the rota system.
3. To lead on the recruitment, induction and training of staff to ensure that a sufficient number of suitably qualified, trained, skilled, competent and experienced staff are deployed to work within the Care Home.
4. To ensure staff are fully aware of the policies, practices and procedures of the children’s home and provide high quality supervision and training for all staff to enable ongoing learning and development.
5. To manage the Care Home’s budget with prudence and in keeping with Powys policies and procedures.
6. To ensure the Care Home operates in accordance with international and national best practice and in keeping with all relevant legislation and regulation including the Social Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Act 2014 and Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016. To keep up to date with new developments and legislation in childcare practice.
7. To manage the behaviour of individual and groups of children and young people appropriately and within the guidelines laid down by the Care Inspectorate Wales.
8. To ensure that all activities within the Home are carried out with due regard to health and safety requirements, undertaking risk assessments where appropriate and being responsible for the health, safety and welfare of all staff and young people.
9. To actively promote, participate in and ensure the provision of high standards of physical care, hygiene, safety, and welfare of all young people. To ensure the provision of a warm accepting environment within the home whereby the emotional, social, educational, cultural, and spiritual needs of individual young people can be achieved, and in which teamwork amongst staff flourishes.

Registrations, Qualifications &Training:
⦁ To be registered with CIW as a Home Registered Manager or willing to register within specified time scale.
⦁ Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care Services (Children and Young People’s Residential Management) Wales and Northern Island or a predecessor qualification laid down by Social Care Wales.
⦁ Proven commitment to ongoing professional development and training.
⦁ Additional qualification relating to Autism, learning disabilities or behavioural issues.

Knowledge:
⦁ Working knowledge of the current legislation, regulatory and policy framework relating to the registration and inspection of children’s homes in Wales. Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016.
⦁ Thorough knowledge and understanding of legislation and policy guiding the work of Children’s Services in Wales.
⦁ Social Services and Well-Being (Wales) Act 2014.
⦁ Knowledge and understanding of current national and local priorities relating to the development of Children’s Social Work Services.
⦁ Working knowledge of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
⦁ Knowledge and understanding of the key issues faced by children who need to be accommodated by the local authority.

Experience:
⦁ Extensive supervisory or managerial experience within residential children’s homes
⦁ Experience of involving children, young people and their parents in the planning, development and delivery of their own services.
⦁ Significant experience of working with children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.
⦁ Experience of developing or improving services within a Children’s Services setting.

Job Category: Human Resources
Location: Civic Centre, Bromley Council
Hours Per Week: 36.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 08:45
End Time: 17:00
Salary rate: £11.57ph

The service operates a hybrid working approach and the successful candidate will need to be able to work remotely and attend the office 2 days a week (Bromley Civic Centre)
We are seeking a HR Assistant to provide an administrative support service for the Talent Acquisition Team to ensure the delivery of a high quality effective and efficient service to customers of the service.
The appointed candidate will have experience in Recruitment (ideally from a public sector/government background) and have experience in liaising with hiring managers to support their recruitment needs and have experience setting up/coordinating interviews.
The successful candidate will have a keen eye for detail and will be responsible for keeping our recruitment and retention databases current and up to date.

KNOWLEDGE:
Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures together with an understanding of the work of a Human Resource section, including recruitment procedures.

EXPERIENCE:
Proven administrative experience.
Proven experience of working to deadlines.
Recent proven experience of effective communication with a variety of people both on the telephone and face to face.
Experience of using computers to support performance in job role.

Job Category: Social Care - Unqualified
Location: Disabilities Resource Centre, Scarborough, YO11 3XT, North Yorkshire County Council
Start Date: Immediate Start
Salary: £18.00

We are committed to providing good quality services to support children and young people with disabilities and their families and our aim is always to put children and young people at the centre of all our work. The services provided by Children’s Resource Centres follow from specific Government legislation, including the Children Act 1989 and the Children Act 2004, The Children’s Homes Regulations 2015 and The SEND agenda. The post requires an enhanced DBS check. This role involves spoken communications so a confident use of English language is required.

In line with Directorate’s statutory obligations, support disabled children with the most complex needs in a variety of different settings. This involves working with children and young people with a wide range of disabilities as part of a team responsible for direct care in residential settings, in children’s own homes and in other settings.

To contribute to all aspects of the physical and emotional care of the children and young people so as to promote their welfare whilst working in partnership with their family and other professionals.

Please see Job Description for more details.

Rates can be negotiated upon submission.

Job Category: Social Care - Qualified
Location: Powys County Council
Hours Per Week: 37.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:00
Salary: £19.47

Key Tasks:
To ensure oversight of all care proceedings in Powys (or an area within Powys). The post-holder will have an overview of all care proceedings and pre-proceedings and an understanding of the basic issues within each case, and the steps that are required in order to resolve the care plan. The post-holder will (alongside the Team Manager) support Social Workers in writing their court reports, particularly focussing on less experienced staff. The post-holder may need to attend court at times in relation to contentious cases or to support less experienced staff.

Tasks:
⦁ Develop and maintain a database in order to monitor the progress of all care proceedings and pre-proceedings in the department/area
⦁ Provide reports in relation to this information to assist the Local Authority to project demand for placements, therapeutic or other relevant services.
⦁ Ensure that all children who are the subject of care proceedings have been subject to the relevant permanence planning processes in order to determine the care plan.
⦁ Ensure that Social Workers have the resources they need in order to submit court reports on time and to a high standard.
⦁ Provide practical assistance to Social Workers to ensure that they can complete court work to a good standard.
⦁ Ensure that all work to be filed before the court has been through a QA process and that the views and feelings of the child are reflected and have been actively considered in drawing up the statement.
⦁ Attend permanence planning and care planning meetings for children who are the subject of care proceedings.
⦁ Ensure that in relation to pre-proceedings, that the plan of improvement is relevant to the concerns about the children and that progress is made in a timely way, or to alert the Team Manager or Senior Manager if the progress of the family is drifting.
⦁ To attend Legal Planning Meetings in an advisory capacity.
⦁ At all times to work in co-operation with the Team Manager of the social work team in which the care proceedings are held.
⦁ To liaise with CAFCASS in relation to any concerns that they may have about the conduct of care proceedings in Powys.
⦁ To ensure that all services are provided within a framework of Equality and Diversity and Anti-discriminatory practice and take account of the views of service users.

Experience:
⦁ Extensive post qualifying experience within Children’s Services.
⦁ Extensive experience of undertaking assessments of needs and identifying risks.
⦁ Extensive experience and knowledge in the field of Child Protection, LAC, Court and the writing/ preparation of court papers
⦁ Previous experience of attending court proceeding
⦁ Ability to collate management information
⦁ Experience of mentoring and supporting less experienced staff
⦁ Experience of writing comprehensive reports.

Qualifications & Training:
⦁ Appropriate social work qualification (i.e. Degree in Social Work, DipSW or equivalent).
⦁ Registration as Social Worker with Social Care Wales.
⦁ Commitment to undertaking any relevant qualification relevant to this post.
⦁ Court skills training.

Knowledge:
⦁ Understanding of the needs of service users.
⦁ Knowledge of current legislation, national guidance and best practice relevant to the post.
⦁ Knowledge of social care needs of children and families.
⦁ An up to date understanding of the current agenda within children’s safeguarding.
⦁ Demonstrate an understanding of quality assurance.
⦁ Extensive knowledge and understanding of legal and court processes.

Job Category: Social Care - Qualified
Location: Rutland House, Halton Borough Council
Hours Per Week: 37.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:30
Salary: £24.14

Social Worker for CIN/CP and CIC cases.

Main Purpose:
An experienced practitioner role, expected to undertake cases independently with an ability to adapt the approach from first principles to deal with more complex or unusual cases, assessing and managing risks appropriately. Work with service users and other stakeholders to assist service planning.

Key Responsibilities:
⦁ Effectively manage a sometimes complex caseload, undertake a range of assessments and help resolve conflict where appropriate.
⦁ Participate in the planning / reviewing of cases.
⦁ Develop and maintain effective relationships with service users, their families and carers.
⦁ Provide advice and support and promote independence and early intervention, as necessary.
⦁ Liaise with colleagues in own or other departments or external agencies to gather relevant information for assessment and care planning activities.
⦁ Maintain and update case notes and other records to required ethical and quality standards.
⦁ Write reports as required and also where required give evidence in court in relation to care proceedings.
⦁ Work effectively on complex situations, use their initiative and evaluate their own and others practice.

Qualifications and Requirements:
⦁ Professional qualification in Social Work plus minimum 1 year supervised experience.
⦁ Knowledge of theory and practice of care assessment, planning and detailed knowledge and understanding of relevant legislation and its application.
⦁ Supervisory skills, as may supervise students, trainees, support staff and volunteers.
⦁ Analytical, planning and communication skills.

Job Category: Administration
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: £10.60

Pay - Grade 5 - £11.59 Per Hour
Location - Chichester
Working arrangements: Mix of home and office - 1 day per week in office

Job description:

You will be working closely with senior managers who are responsible for delivering social care services to a range of adult customers across West Sussex.
The work will be fast paced and varied, with unpredictable demands. You will be exposed to confidential and highly sensitive information and will be expected to work within relevant legislative and policy frameworks.
The work environment is friendly and supportive and the post holder will be a valued and integral part of the team, as they deliver services to the vulnerable customers and implement improvement programmes.

What you’ll need to succeed:

You’ll need to be able to work independently, confidently, flexibly and in close partnership with others, both externally and in the Directorate and wider organisation. You’ll need to be able to balance priorities and deadlines as well as responding to / redirecting enquiries, using your initiative to deal with unexpected problems and situations.
You’ll need excellent Word and Excel skills, and the ability to concentrate over long periods of time to take accurate and comprehensive notes during meetings on complex and sensitive subjects.
You’ll need to be able to travel independently around the county to attend meetings. You must be willing to work as part of a team and have a good sense of humour.

Job Category: Legal
Location: London Borough of Newham
Hours Per Week: 36.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:00
Salary: £13.63

3 Legal Assistants required in total
1 x Business Support
1 x Housing Services
1 x Community - Short Term Order (approx. 6 weeks)

To provide effective administrative support to the legal service, in the provision of advice to Councils, their Members and Officers and external stakeholders.
Support the provision of legal expertise through a shared delivery back office support service and contribute to the delivery of a portfolio of high quality, solution focused legal work across multiple disciplines and sites and to customers in different organisations.
Support the service’s legal teams with a full range of administrative tasks with minimal supervision and assist the Elections team when required.
Support teams on project work when required including fact finding, research, maintaining project plans.
Input data and produce management information from the services legal case management system for lawyers and produce standard letters and documents.
Identify the need for support tasks and take appropriate action to provide.
Such things may include but are not limited to filing and archiving, preparing court bundles, handling incoming and outgoing post, administering the sealing of documents, collection and delivery to courts and third parties, booking and meeting minutes.
Assist Lawyers and Legal Officers with legal research and basic case work.
Meet and greet clients and invited guests when required including on occasion members of the public.
Maintain various manual and electronic systems including corporate IT systems, spreadsheets, databases and the legal case management system. Be able to manipulate date to produce information for internal clients, service personnel and third parties.
Undertake the sealing of deeds, contracts and other documents.
Support the Head of Business Operations Legal and Governance and the Lawyers with maintaining Lexcel accreditation.

Able to demonstrate and evidence a highly developed Competence in:
IT skills including Microsoft Office – Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Adobe. Legal case management systems.
Educated to A level or equivalent, or qualified by experience.

Able to demonstrate and evidence Knowledge and experience in:
Producing basic reports from data, maintaining spreadsheets Understanding of prioritising and organising a workload.
Freedom of Information issues and Data protection and its application within the role.
Providing excellent customer service in an administrative support role within a professional environment.
Understanding of a legal environment and its complexities.

Job Category: Social Care - Unqualified
Location: Claverings Industrial Estate, Enfield Council
Hours Per Week: 35.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:00
Salary: £14.81

The placement is for a 35hr per week assistant Enablement Manager. The placement will work within our Quality Assurance Pathway and be responsible for dealing with customer complaints and concerns, along with auditing clients care plan and files which include Medication audits of Compliance in line with policy, support plan audits to ensure they meet the needs of the customer and outcome focussed, along with risk assessments and case notes. All working in line with CQC KLOE. so an attention to detail is important, and an understanding of the CQC KLOE. the candidate will be required to supervise staff and provide collated data reports to the CQC registered manager, identifying trends. working Monday to Friday generally 9-5pm with a level of flexibility to work different hours if an emergency situation occurs.

Job Category: Legal
Location: County Hall, Flintshire County Council
Hours Per Week: 35.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:00
Salary: £21.03

The provision of legal advice and support in connection with work arising from Social Services. Undertaking Court work from the said service including care proceedings and/or Deprivation of Liberty Applications. The Work includes advising upon, preparing and conducting Court cases arising from all aspects of Adult Safeguarding, such as Court of Protection and DOLS and delivering advice to Social Workers. To ensure that the Council operate within the law in relation to Safeguarding to protect adults from abuse through delivering advice and the Court processes.

Academic/ Professional Qualification:
Qualified Solicitor or Member of the Fellow Institute of Legal Executives.

Knowledge and Experience:
Experience of working in a legal environment.
Knowledge of local government practices and procedures. (Desirable)
Experience of working with confidential sensitive and personal data. (Desirable)

Job Category: Social & Healthcare Qualified
Location: Midland House, Plymouth City Council
Hours Per Week: 37.50
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:30
Salary: £31.88

We are looking for experienced and qualified social workers perhaps with reviewing officer or innovation experience to lead innovation in relation to three key cohorts of children and young people, to ensure their needs are met and the best outcomes for them achieved. The cohorts include children in high-cost care arrangements, new unplanned entrants to care and those with potential for reunification. You will be working in partnership with social workers and team managers to support creativity, fulfilling practical roles at times and consultative positions at others, depending on the identified needs. There will be no case allocation. Full Terms of Reference for the Team available through discussion. You will be a motivational communicator with strong interpersonal skills, and model and lead a restorative and strengths-based approach to professional relationships and practice. You will work with an innovation project lead to build confidence in staff to work and think creatively and support practical and effective work to identify and achieve the best outcomes for children and young people at pace.