Social Care Involvement Officer

2 weeks ago


Maidstone, United Kingdom Kent County Council Full time

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**Kent County Council, Adult Social Care and Health**

**12 Month Fixed Term Contract or internal secondment.**

Various locations in Kent and hybrid working (with travel within Kent to meet business need)
- Are you motivated by involving people and encouraging participation?
- Can you use your skills in active listening and communication to hear people’s experiences and promote co-production?
- Are you a community connector who can develop strong networks to make person-centred care and support a reality?

Our involvement officers will play a key role in delivering our five-year Adult Social Care Strategy - a plan that aims to make a difference and support people to live a full life. This is a public facing role that will set up and run effective and proactive community-based forums, link people together and signpost people to the support that’s best for them. To achieve this, you will be expected to work closely with people that access support, community leaders, partner organisations and social care staff in a variety of places.

**The Challenge**

Social care and health services face several significant challenges in the years ahead, as the population is living longer and with more complex needs; increasing demand on the health and care sector. We are committed to maintaining and improving high quality services in Kent, despite the challenges faced by all public sector organisations. To help us achieve our ambitions, we have a dedicated Innovation Delivery Team to drive and deliver successful and positive change.

**The Opportunity**

These roles will be report into our stakeholder engagement function. Our key stakeholders include but are not limited to, people with learning disabilities, neurodivergent and autistic people, people that draw on mental health and physical disability support, older people and unpaid carers of adults.

Officers will be a key point of contact for their designated communities and will work to achieve the objectives of our adult social care community teams led by our assistant director in that area.

**The Person**

This is a hands-on role and requires travel, so every day will be different. If you enjoy the buzz of working with a range of people in communities and within a supportive multi-skilled team both virtually and face to face, this role will suit you well.

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. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Interview date: w/c 7 August 2023
Closing date: 28 July 2023

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