Assessor

**Tameside Council**

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**Contract Type**: Permanent

**Salary**: Grade G. SCP 23 £32,076 to SCP 28 £36,648

**Hours**:36 Hours per Week

**Base Location**:Tameside General Hospital, Fountain Street, Ashton-under-Lyne, OL6 9RW

**Closing Date**: Monday 29th April 2024

**Assessment Date**:To be arranged

**The Role**
- This is an exciting opportunity to come and work for Tameside Adult’s Services. We are looking for a driven social care Assessor to join us during an exciting period of transformation and innovation.
- Tameside is a place that is passionate and committed to improving outcomes and creating a positive experience for individuals and families.
- ‘Our People Our Place Our Plan’ outlines our aims and aspirations for the area, its people and how we commit to work for everyone, every day.
- Tameside adopts a positive working culture; we embrace innovation and encourage performance. We are committed to staff development and provide a wide range of training opportunities in a supportive working environment.
- Tameside is proud to offer our assessors:

- Ongoing training and development
- Opportunities to invest in your on development and career progression from Assessor, to Social Worker to Senior leadership
- Thorough induction and ongoing supervision and support
- Manageable caseloads and a supportive team
- Employees are encouraged to be involved in the ongoing development of practice
- Flexible working
- We currently have a position within our Hospital Discharge Team, based at Tameside General Hospital. It is an exciting time to come and work for us as you will be joining the team at a time of transformation and great investment into services for adults and social work practice.
- This role will be as the dedicated admission avoidance worker working closely with our health colleagues, working in the A and E department and assessment wards based at Tameside General Hospital. As part of an integrated team working closely with our health colleagues you will be part of a friendly and supportive team and your work will include responding to urgent requests of support with the aim to prevent a hospital admission or if needed planning safe and timely discharges. You will also be responsible for completing Care Act assessments, Support Plans, Mental Capacity Assessments and Best Interest Decisions and signposting to internal and external services where necessary to enhance wellbeing and independence.

**About You**
- As an Assessor within the Integrated Care Team you will have excellent communication skills be resilient and have the ability to build effective professional relationships within in a challenging environment. Working closely with other disciplines within our integrated team and also with other local health and social care services to enable a coordinated response to individuals and families.
- Here is what one of our current staff members says about working in our Service;
- “This is a fast paced and yet rewarding role with a supportive team of Practitioners and Managers alike. I have developed as a Practitioner while at Tameside as well as accessed career progression opportunities, which is great”
- Adult Social Care staff member;
- “I am lucky to be part of an amazing, supportive and flexible team and I am excited for possible future opportunities and a long career with Tameside.”
- If you are committed and would like to be part of our journey, we really want to hear from you.
- Experience of working with adults and previous employment in a similar position would be desirable.
- It is essential that you hold a current valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work use.

**About Us**
- At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.
- We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.
- Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.
- For an informal discussion about the roles, please do not hesitate to contact; Vicki Cropper 0161 922 4181 / Abid Hussain / Michelle Riley on 0161 922 5183
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