Community Assessment Officer

3 weeks ago


Bedfordshire, United Kingdom Central Bedfordshire Council Full time

**Team**: COA - Hospital Discharge Service

**Family**:Providing - CBG7
**Salary**:£24,496 - £26,845 per annum pro rata
**Hours**:37 Hours per week

**Location**: Working from home and any CBC offices, including Priory House, Shefford. You will be expected to attend a CBC office location on a monthly basis, and as needed to carry out your role

**Contract Type**: Hybrid - 1 year Secondment / Fixed Term - Maternity Leave cover
**Closing Date**: 26th of May 2023

**Interview Date**: TBC

**About Us**

Central Bedfordshire is an ambitious authority, determined to be an exemplary one. Our strategic location and high quality of life mean we are one of the fastest growing areas in the country.

As a council we face the same challenges every business does - investing in the right places and delivering great results. Except for us, it’s all about our 289,000 residents. We’re totally focussed on helping to improve their lives and making Central Bedfordshire a great place to live and work.

We have set values and principles to represent the way we work and how we operate as an organisation. You can view a list of these in detail on our website.

This is a great time to join us on our journey.

**About the role**:
As a Hospital Community assessment officer, you’ll be at the heart of our Better Care Fund developments whilst supporting our residents to leave hospital safely. Join us and find your greatness in supporting vulnerable people to be safe, well and as independent as possible.

Our Hospital Discharge Service provides Assessment and Case Management across all client groups. We are committed in supporting people to leave both acute and non-acute hospital settings with timely and safe integrated discharge planning. Central Bedfordshire has a number of positions to support people across multiple hospital services that serve our Council area.

The service works in close partnership with other health and care systems, we work alongside our Community Health Service provider to deliver a multi-disciplinary approach to Integrated Health & Social Care. The working week of 37 hours is spread across 7 days on a rotation base.

We are currently looking to recruit an community Assessment Officer to join our busy and multi-skilled Adult Hospital Discharge Team. The Team is committed to supporting people to be as independent as possible with a strong focus on improving individual outcomes in a strength based, person centred way, the use of Integrated TEC and creative solutions. You will be expected to complete holistic assessments as required by the Care Act 2014.

Working for us, you can expect to be valued for your positive and dynamic practice, be assisted to continue to develop as a practitioner within a supportive learning environment and operate within a ‘can do’ culture. Your contribution in helping us to succeed could enable you to discover your greatness.

You will need to have the skills that help us achieve the delivery of excellent person-centred approaches. You will value working in partnership with the people we support and sound evidence-based practice and understand that best practice results in best value. You will know the importance of enabling people to be supported to be as independent as possible for as long as possible and that having a strong connection with local services and communities can make a real difference to people's lives and overall wellbeing.

Adult Services is fully committed to working collaboratively with our health/partnership organisation colleagues to provide a seamless multi-agency response in supporting residents with their health and social care needs. Our collective practice has a strong focus on early prevention and optimising levels of independence. The Community Assessment Service is continually striving to ensure that best practice is delivered to the people we serve and is investing heavily in being a vibrant, supportive, and inspiring place to work; this will be improved dramatically with the Integrated Health and Care Hub development currently being built. A modern, high tech facility that will revolutionise services for people which is scheduled to open April 2023 allowing our practitioners to operate as part of a single site multi-disciplinary team. A fly through of the Integrated Health and Care hub in Dunstable | Central Bedfordshire Council - Bing video Central Bedfordshire is a thriving; growing community and we work with people who have a range of diverse needs. We are a progressive team who offer manageable caseloads and a friendly, supportive work environment, which will include the allocation of a buddy when you first start.

In return, Central Bedfordshire Council supports the workforce to operate in an agile manner by providing modern IT equipment as well as generous annual leave, local government pension scheme, regular supervision, support to develop and ongoing training. We are fully committed to your learning and development beginning with a robu



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