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Social Care Officer
1 month ago
We are recruiting Community Social Care Officers with a range of different skills and experience.The positions are permanent and full time.
Roles are available within the Shepway Community Team, within Kent, and we operate in a hybrid model of office-based working and working from home to meet the needs of the service.
Please state your preferred areas of work and full time or part time preference in your reason for application.
About Us
This is an exciting opportunity to join our community teams across Kent as we enhance our locality working practice and put the person and good practice at the heart of what we do.
We work with adults with a range of care and support needs placing individuals at the centre of their support. You will undertake initial enquiries, build relationships with people, their carers and wider partners, and support the management of crisis intervention undertaking Care Act assessments and Mental Capacity Act assessments. You will be supervised by an experience registered practitioner.
Our social care interventions are structured around the three pillars of excellent practice, exceptional innovation, and meaningful measures. Therefore, our work is orientated around building relationships with the individual their families and carers. We engage with communities early on to help people feel empowered to find trusted help and support locally from a range of sources
About You
You will have experience of working with people with social care needs and of undertaking initial assessments. A willingness to undertake a NVQ in Care Level 2 and 3 alongside Mathematics and English
You must also possess:
· Experience of working within a multi-agency environment.
· Knowledge of relevant Social Care legislation
· Financial skills and knowledge
· Good computer literacy and report writing skills.
· Excellent interpersonal skills and mediation and negotiation skills.
· Ability to work in partnership with people and our wider partners to help identify services or resources in the community that can support well-being.
We are looking for future employees who have a positive, forward-thinking attitude who can work collaboratively as part of a team.
The ability to travel across a wide geographical area in a timely and flexible manner at various times of the day is essential.
Our Support Offer
In return, we offer an attractive benefits package and a commitment to ensuring that you achieve a healthy work life balance and opportunities for flexible working arrangements that meet business need.
You will have excellent opportunities for professional development with access to our social care academy, progression routes that include opportunities to undertake the social work apprenticeship, and our newly launched practice framework.
We are increasingly accessible to the public outside of traditional office hours, as we move towards an 8 am to 8 pm, 7 days a week service to ensure service needs are met
This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure and Barring service.
This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements.
This role is subject to holding a Full UK Driving Licence – The Council is committed to making reasonable adjustments so whilst this job requires the jobholder to drive your application will still be considered if you are unable to drive due to a disability.
For more information about the role, please contact Joe Lillicrap or Elle Meehan via email on, and and a member of the team will respond appropriately.
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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county’s working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.
Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.
Location Cheriton House, Motis Business Centre, Cheriton High Street, Folkestone, United Kingdom
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