Social Care Assessor
- Devon
- Full Time
- £29,572 - £32,654 per annum
Fixed term or secondment for 12 months
Internal DCC Employees Only
Please get authorisation from your current line manager to apply for this secondment opportunity.
We are looking for a Social Care Assessor to join us in our specialist Adult’s Emergency Duty Service for one year as a secondment.
About the team
Our Adult’s Emergency Duty Service (EDS) provides key and timely responses to urgent out-of-hours contacts in respect of support for adults with care and support needs, and adults at risk and adult safeguarding concerns. We are a small team made up of 3 social care assessors, 3 advanced social workers and 1 team manager.
Shifts include evening and weekend shifts on a 9 week rolling rota basis.
About you
You will:
- Have experience of working within an adult social care setting.
- Be forward-thinking with a solution focused approach.
- Have clear decision-making skills, with effective consideration around application of risk assessment and risk management.
- Be able to balance working independently with being an effective team member, and liaising and escalating matters as needed on shift.
- Have excellent interpersonal skills and effective communication in creating and maintaining positive relationships with internal and external partners, carers, adults with care and support needs, and team members.
- Have excellent information recording skills.
If you feel you have all the above and would like to be part of our service, we would love to hear from you!
If you have any queries about the role or would like an informal discussion, please contact Llinos Davies, Team Manager, Adult’s EDS 07837 281947, llinos.davies@devon.gov.uk.
If you would like to speak to a peer informally about the role, Llinos can arrange this for you.
Internal Applicants, please note: If you are an existing DCC employee, please use your iTrent Employee Self Service (ESS) details to log in and apply.
- DCC embraces the positive benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to providing an environment that is inclusive and safe. We welcome applications from people who share our commitment to stop discrimination, challenge inequality and promote diversity across Devon. More information can be found on our Equality and Diversity webpages.
- Happy to Talk Flexible Working - The Council offers flexible working arrangements in terms of when and where people work e.g. hybrid working, part-time, condensed hours etc.
- We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
- This role requires the ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence and fluency in English.
- Personal data we collect from you will be processed in accordance with the Applicant privacy notice.
- For more information about Working for Devon please visit our Working for Devon page.
- We cannot consider visa sponsorship at this time. UK Right to Work is required. For further guidance on right to work in the UK, please visit: Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
- This role requires a DBS disclosure.
Reference: REQ007993