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Job Category : Building Services & Maintenance
Location : Newsham Adult Learning Centre, Liverpool, L6 7UH, Liverpool City Council
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:30
Salary: £10.58
General caretaker /key holder duties
Enhanced DBS

Job Category : Social Care - Unqualified
Location : Claverings Industrial Estate, Enfield Council
Hours Per Week : 18.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time :18:00
Salary: £14.81
The placement is for an 18hr assistant Enablement Manager. This will support the management oversight of the D2A pilot of a revised pathway..working days Friday 2-6pm, Saturday and Sunday 9-5pm
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES

Skills and Competencies

Essential:

1. Ability to assess personal care and support needs of service users whilst balancing risk with the promotion of independence.
2. Ability to communicate clearly and effectively to a wide range of people both orally and in writing.
3. A good working knowledge of positive risk taking, risk assessment/management and safeguarding adults
4. Ability to plan and maximise use of care hours and staffing resources
5. Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary environment
6. Ability to work using own initiative as part of a team while managing workload efficiently.
7. Experience of managing a rota system.
8. Ability to supervise and manage performance of staff effectively

Experience and Knowledge

1. 2 years’ experience of assessing personal care and support needs for a range of adults in social care.
   Knowledge of relevant legislation, policies and guidance that underpin a service providing care and support

Job Title : Operations Manager COVID19
Job Category : Public Health
Location : London Borough of Haringey
Hours Per Week : 45.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 08:00
End Time : 20:00
Salary: £30.00

Operations Manager COVID19
Role Purpose
Working as part of the COVID-19 Community Testing Leadership team to provide the overall leadership of the Community Testing and Vaccination Outreach programmes. Assuring the health, safety, and governance processes.
Essential
⦁ Strong leadership skills demonstrated across a multi-site/location high volume environment.
⦁ Ability to implement a standard process in a rigorous and consistent way. • Ability to prioritise workload with a methodical and organised approach to achieve work deadlines.
⦁ Question and challenge conventional thinking.
⦁ Role model agility and adaptability in mindset and ways of working.
⦁ Line manager experience for large diverse teams.
⦁ Experience of following strict guidelines and procedures. • Experience working with members of the public/patients.
⦁ Excellent interpersonal skills and a supportive nature.
⦁ Flexibility to change tasks as and when required.
⦁ Ability to physically stand for several hours with good mobility. Willingness to work in an outdoor environment, if necessary.
⦁ Willing to be an ambassador for testing and vaccination.
⦁ Prepared to take a lateral flow test at least twice a week.
⦁ Ability to get the basics right and work with your team and others to get issues resolved. A track record in handling queries and complaints.
⦁ Ability to distribute, record and convey information accurately.
⦁ Ability to respond in a professional and polite manner to customers.
⦁ Demonstrate commitment to own personal and professional development to meet the changing demands of the role.
⦁ Demonstrate a high level of innovation and creativity.
⦁ Good interpersonal skills and ability to diffuse any potential conflicts in a calm, clear and sympathetic way.
Desirable Criteria:

1. Understanding of PPE practices, however training is provided.
2. Health & Safety experience
3. Experience of handling medical waste (the collection of PPE and biohazard waste)
4. Experience working in a high volume medical, clinical or health environment.
5. Understanding of Public Health England (PHE) guidance on COVID-19 prevention measures, including hands, face and space, social distancing and other guidelines and adheres to these, ensuring compliance by all on Covid-19 secure site.

Job Category : Public Health
Location : London Borough of Haringey
Hours Per Week : 43.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 08:00
End Time : 20:00
Salary: £15.00
Administration Officer COVID19
Providing daily and weekly reports to senior officers and council members
Managing staff absences and weekly timesheets
Developing and facilitating training for 40+ staff
Supporting senior staff by taking minutes in meetings and diary management
Working interdepartmentally within the council to set up new testing sites, manage logistics of open sites, and decommission closed sites
Maintaining stock supplies of PPE, test kits, site resources and procuring equipment for outreach projects
Implementing procedures/projects in line with changing COVID-19 policy e.g., Designed and rolled out home test-kit model across all sites
Writing standard operating procedures and managing risk assessments for new locations both on the street and on-site
Supporting strategic planning borough wide
Working closely with COVID-19 Comms Manager to create targeted informational material
Coordinating surge testing projects within short deadlines to prevent further spread of Variants of Concern
Coordinating outreach work, specifically aimed at increasing uptake in testing and vaccines amongst vulnerable groups and in low uptake areas e.g., organising pop-up events, researching high footfall areas
Engaging with key stakeholders such as, public health officials, NHS CCG, schools, local community groups and customers
Creating close relationships with the community and voluntary sector to ensure equal access to testing and vaccine information for all
Working closely with Head of Testing to ensure operations are carried out safely and efficiently

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: £12.50

Working in the RAPID RESPONSE TEAM

1. To review and update knowledge policy and procedural frameworks and provide intervention in accordance with these.
2. To work with individuals, families, carer groups and communities to help them make informed change.
3. To assist users to enhance their independence and coping skills.
4. To be aware of risks in relation to child protection and protection of vulnerable adults and report these appropriately as required.
5. To implement support for individuals as previously assessed to meet their immediate needs.
6. To be aware of carers and request carer assessments as required.
7. To prepare for and participate in decision-making forums.
8. To manage and prioritise the workload, carry out duties using accountable considered judgement.
9. To feedback to the allocated case holder to inform ongoing assessment.
10. To contribute to the identification and agreement of outcomes required of the service.
11. To work in multidisciplinary and multi organisational teams and development of best practice within your role.
12. To work with colleagues to agree a team approach to individual cases.
13. To participate in duty rotas as appropriate.
14. To participate in supervision, appraisal and team meetings, identifying issues and possible solutions where discussion and decision required.
15. To work within the budget framework of the service to identify specific packages of care to respond to individual assessments.
16. To record and share client data in line with Council policy and procedure.
17. To use corporate systems to support core business and care management process.

Job Category : Public Health
Location : London Borough of Haringey
Hours Per Week : 43.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 08:00
End Time : 20:00
Salary: £15.00

Administration Officer COVID19
Conducting outreach operations to the local community through door-to-door knocking, pop up stands and school runs; advising residents on the benefits of the Covid – Vaccine and how to go about getting them booked in.
Using the Accubook booking system to help allocate a time and venue and book residents in.
Collating and recording all contact and responses made with residents onto an online E-form platform to help with data analysis.
Assessing stressful situations in which residents are aggravated or violent and providing solutions to benefit both parties with an outcome of no individual getting distressed.
Working in a constant changing environment due to altering laws and regulations in which flexibility is an asset.
Appointed in charge by team leaders in their absence to guide colleagues into deploying plans correctly and efficiently.
Helped manage the running of multiple pop-up vaccine stands and liaised with Dr’s and nurses to ensure an effective service.
Worked in a fast-paced dynamic and evolving environment with flexibility at heart of work.
Always ensured that staff adhered to the health and safety guidelines.
Handled complaints and conspiracies by residence and public whilst conducting outreach programs.
Managed outreach posts and handled queries with regards to the different types of vaccines.
Liaised with mosques and other multi-cultural/faith communities.

Job Category : Social Care & Health Non-Qualified
Location : Bromley Council
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 08:30
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £11.57
MAIN PURPOSE:
To assist and enable clients with personal, practical, and social support activities of daily living.
Working within a reablement model of care, the Reablement Bank Support Worker will support and encourage service users to regain, maintain or develop daily living skills and the confidence to carry them out independently.
The Reablement Bank Support Worker will assist service users to take greater control of their lives and remain independent and help eliminate or minimise their need for further intervention.

Ad hoc Shifts required will be as follows:

8am to 8pm – 11hrs with 1hr unpaid lunch break.
8am to 2pm – 6hrs
2pm to 8pm – 6hrs

Support workers will need to have the following training -
Safeguarding
Mental capacity
Equality and Diversity
Health and Safety
Oral hygiene
Reporting and recording
Communication
M&H
Fire safety
Food hygiene
Medication
First aid
Infection control

Job Category : Social & Healthcare Non-Qualified
Location : Isle of Wight Council, Newport, Isle Of Wight
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 08:00
End Time : 16:30
Salary: £10.01

5 CARE ASSISTANTS WITH CARE HOME EXPERIENCE REQUIRED ASAP TO JOIN OUR RESIDENTIAL CARE SERVICE. These contracts are initially likely to run for a minimum of 4 months. Applicants will need to be located /relocated here on the Isle of Wight and able to travel to and from their residential setting so a driving license and vehicle will be highly desirable due to our rural nature

Essential
Must be 18 years of age or over
Work as a member of a team and on own initiative
Ability to obtain full DBS

Key Responsibilities
Help clients who need assistance with washing and toileting, dressing and undressing
Help clients who have limited mobility or physical disabilities, making the best of aids provided.
Follow instructions from senior staff and written information within client care plans
Assist in the control of continence, providing comfort with dignity.
Care for clients who are temporarily unwell.
Assist in giving stimulation to clients by helping them continue with hobbies and activities
Answer emergency bells and the main door (when applicable).
Make visitors welcome and offer refreshments and any assistance they may require.
Read and write reports when necessary.
Make and change beds and leave rooms tidy. Empty commodes where necessary.
Assist clients who need help at mealtimes, lay tables and trays, serve meals, wash up if necessary,
In the absence of catering staff prepare snacks and drinks, clear and tidy dining room.
• To provide an excellent standard of professional care to service users in an effective and timely manner
• To ensure a safe as possible living environment for service users whilst respecting their views and choices
• To work beyond factual care plan information and to understand service users individuality and needs;
• To establish an effective relationship with client and their families to build trust and confidence
• To demonstrate a high level of personalised skill and care in personal care (including total body washing, toileting, dressing, feeding) in line with procedures and ensuring dignity, respect and consideration is maintained at all times
• To demonstrate a high level of personalised skill and care in moving and positioning in line with procedures and ensuring dignity, respect and consideration is maintained at all times
• To demonstrate a high level of personalised skill and care in medication, ensuring medication is prompted/assisted as necessary and check sheets are completed
• To undertake essential domestic duties including cleaning, laundry and ironing
• To undertake purchasing provisions to provide for an adequate, balanced and stimulating diet where necessary
• To assist the client with managing their finances where necessary including collection pensions, paying bills in line with Company procedures
• To make referrals for additional equipment or services needed by the client
• To effectively liaise with relevant stakeholders regarding client care
• To ensure all administrative processes, documentation, client records and files are effectively managed
• To consistently ensure all Health and Safety and care safety standards / practices are a priority and are adhered to at all times;

Applicants will be entering CQC care settings and therefore will need to be able to present a valid Covid-19 vaccination certificate

Job Category : Facilities & Environmental Services
Location : Three Colt Street, Tower Hamlets Homes
Hours Per Week : 35.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 08:00
End Time : 16:00
Salary: £14.55

This is a fantastic opportunity for an Operative to join the newly formed Response Team in Environmental Services who have a focus on estate drainage, internal blockages to resident properties and communal cleaning improvements, ensuring that the Response Team provides a high quality service, delivering cleaner, safer, well maintained estates and excellent customer focussed services.
You will also be liaising directly with residents and contractors and answering queries with due regard to health and safety issues at all times.

What you’ll offer us:

• Experience of clearing blockages in Council Tenant’s W.C’s, baths, sinks, and kitchen sinks and in both associated runs and stacks on Council Estates
• Experience of using equipment and vehicles as appropriate to the task in hand.
• Experience of delivering excellent service to customers.
• Experience of delivering cleaning work programmes and associated caretaking and improvement works

It is an essential requirement that you have a good standard of literacy as good communication, both written and verbal, is a key feature of the role. You must also hold a full UK driving license. Relevant mandatory and on the job training will be provided as well as training to support your ongoing development.

Job Category : Manual Labour
Location : Three Colt Street, Tower Hamlets Homes
Hours Per Week : 35.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 08:00
End Time : 16:00
Salary: £13.30
2 Gardeners with Cat B driving license required
Job Purpose:
To carry out gardening and horticultural maintenance to horticultural features, grass areas and natural features, under the direction of a Lead Gardener to give a high quality service that delivers cleaner, safer and well maintained estates and excellent customer service.

Education and Experience
Essential Criteria
A minimum of 2 years’ experience as an assistant Gardener or Gardener.
Basic gardening skills to include cultivation of soils, pruning of shrubs & Roses.

Desirable Criteria
PA1a & PA6a certificates.
Knowledge of minor landscaping works.
To be qualified to GNVQ Level 2 Horticulture or equivalent.
Previous experience of ride-on mowers, pedestrian mowers, strimmers, blowers, hedge cutters, pole saws.

Knowledge
Essential Criteria
A working knowledge of Health and Safety requirements including Manual Handling & COSHH, Work at Heights, and machinery use.

Job Category : Human Resources
Location : Civic Centre, Bromley Council
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 08:30
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £18.11
HR Consultant with employee relations experience and dealing with complex casework to help in our HR Consultancy Team supporting managers with Disciplinary, Grievance and Sickness cases.
MAIN PURPOSE:

1. The HR Consultant will provide an effective, efficient and proactive employee relations service which:

a) Supports the achievement of the Council’s HR Strategy and the business aims and objectives of clients and the Council;
b) Promotes best practice and enables the Council to meet their legal employment responsibilities; and
c) Represent the Council’s interests in employment decisions taken by managers where it is appropriate to do so.

2. Undertake project work as required.

KNOWLEDGE

A working knowledge of current employment law and good employment practice, and their application in the workplace.
An appreciation of the contribution that performance management processes can make to service improvement.
An understanding of equalities issues in relation to employment and service delivery
Commercial awareness.

Knowledge of local government challenges and associated employment law issues and implications.

EXPERIENCE

Proven experience as a generalist HR/employee relations practitioner.
Proven experience of working effectively in partnership with others.

QUALIFICATIONS
Have achieved, or be actively studying, for appropriate CIPD qualification or have proven experience as a generalist HR/ employee relations practitioner

Job Category : Financial
Location : Watling House, Central Bedfordshire Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £11.50

The main purpose of the role is to undertake telephone call appointments and/or home visits to gather financial information and evidence from clients to support the financial assessment process for care services and to advise clients on the charging process, then to carry out the completion of financial assessments. To provide advice to clients on potential benefits they can claim and how to access additional follow up assistance with the Pension Service and other agencies. We are looking for someone who has excellent communication skills to liaise with our clients or their representatives and care management teams. The successful candidate will be customer focused, organised and able to work independently but also work collaboratively and be a supportive team player. An up to date knowledge of benefits would be an advantage but training will be provided as appropriate. Use of a car, full driving licence with business cover is needed.

Job Category : Financial
Location : Central Library, Bromley Council
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £11.00

We are looking for an enthusiastic person with financial awareness and experience of working in a busy team. You will need excellent interpersonal, communication, organizational and IT skills to join our established multi-agency, early intervention, community-based Service. The role supports five different teams within Children’s Social Care Early Intervention, working across 9 different venues within Bromley.
The working environment is highly pressured, with many externally driven non-negotiable deadlines across these different services. These deadlines often overlap and careful planning, organisation and creative thinking is required to prevent any of the services failing to achieve their reporting and financial deadlines. The post holder will be required to undertake a range of financial functions within a local authority financial environment and must be able to successfully: -
· Manage the daily financial tasks e.g. researching best value for money, ordering goods, raising / paying invoices
· Complete basic budget reconciliation in line with Financial Regulations
· Maintain and administer the various asset logs
· Staff the daily facilities and cleaning contract helpline for all remote sites within EIFS and maintain and action the respective Incident Logs
The multi-service support and extensive range of external customers and suppliers will require the successful candidate to have strong and effective communication and negotiation skills, in order to robustly challenge where necessary e.g. utility providers. There will be an expectation that you will support service improvement looking for ways to strengthen our financial processes, including reporting and accessibility of physically held supporting data required for auditing.
Applicants should enjoy working as part of a team, as well as independently. Flexibility is essential e.g. working peripatetically across different sites. Experience of working in partnership with a range of people is essential for the smooth running of the service. Applicants must demonstrate clear evidenced knowledge and application of the skills, abilities, knowledge as described in the person specification and be Qualified to Level 3 including English and Maths, or relevant financial experience.
QUALIFICATIONS
Qualified to Level 3 including English and Maths, or hold a recognised financial qualification, or significant relevant financial experience.

Job Category : Construction Trades & Operatives
Location : Lamby Way Cleansing Depot, Cardiff Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £8.91
x4 driver's 6:00 - 14:00 Monday - Friday
x4 driver's 10:00 - 18:00 Sat & Sun

Job Purpose:
To deliver an improved street scene through provision of cleansing and maintenance services
Duties and Responsibilities
Job Specific

1. General cleansing activities including litter picking (all land including parks and grass verges), leaf fall management, sweeping, digging out of channels, and litter bin emptying.
2. Removal of fly-tipped waste including furniture and bagged waste.
3. Ensure safe removal of hazardous and mixed wastes e.g. needles, broken glass oil and blood spillages, dead animals and faeces.
4. Act as point of contact for customer to advise of litter and environmental issues and take ownership of issues using own initiative to report or address these accordingly.
5. Provision of (internal) cleansing services such as hoovering and cleaning of public conveniences.
6. Assist with gritting activities during the winter period by filling and distributing grit bags and grit, digging out snow and footpaths.
7. Using power tools such as jet washers, hand mowers, blowers, hedge cutters and strimmers and drills.
8. Install bins to pavement slabs or asphalt.
9. Clean and paint street furniture such as cabinets, benches, railings and signs.
10. Rope working on steep inclines to clear litter and fly tipping.
11. BaBasic traffic management to support cleansing activities on highways – cones and signage.
12. Driving and maintaining vehicles and completing all relevant paperwork such as drivers daily return sheets, defect book and accident forms.
    sic inspection of playground equipment in Parks

Job Category : Human Resources
Location : County Hall, West Sussex County Council
Hours Per Week : 37.50
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £13.47

About the Job
We are looking for someone with a strong Adult Social Care market background to support and maintain our priorities with care providers. Previous experience of working in recruitment would be advantageous.
Our website allows us to be the one stop shop in West Sussex for information on working in care, advertising vacancies, and encouraging candidates to join the care market and apply for a job.
This is a diverse role communicating with and supporting the market daily, gathering soft intelligence, information and data and working with a range of stakeholders to influence and support quality workforce development in West Sussex.

Join us – Make a difference in our communities
• West Sussex County Council is a diverse organisation that provides services to more than 850,000 residents every day. The Proud to Care Team supports Adults Social Care employers to promote jobs in care as work/careers of choice to help close the rising workforce shortfall. This is to support the care market external to the Council operating in West Sussex.
• The Health and Social Care Act sets out a range of responsibilities for all local authorities and these include provision of information and advice, market shaping, managing service availability and preventing provider failure and other service interruptions.
The care and support markets are currently experiencing unprecedented challenges, with continuous operational and financial pressures at a national and local level.

As a team our priorities include:
• Promote the Proud to Care offer to job seekers and care providers
• Deliver engaging marketing and communication activity for job vacancies in the Adults Social Care sector across West Sussex
• Promote career pathways within the care sector including apprenticeships
• Recruit more care workers to improve the conversion of expressions of interest into vacancy fulfilment
• Offer direct support to West Sussex care providers on recruitment and retention
• Collaborate with Adults Commissioning & Contracts colleagues to support business needs