Assessment & Support Co-ordinator

5 months ago

Wareham, United Kingdom Dorset Council Full time

**About The Role**:
As an Assessment Support Coordinator, you will be working alongside Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, and health colleagues across a range of settings to support people to remain as independent as possible and linked in with their local networks.

You will be undertaking strengths-based assessments and support planning, in accordance with the Care Act 2014.

You will assist individuals to identify their goals and how best to achieve them to support their independence, and where appropriate complete mental capacity assessments.

You will be working as part of a busy team and alongside other teams within the local authority. Multi-disciplinary practice will be integral to the role.

**About the Purbeck Team**:
We are looking for three Assessment Support Coordinators to join our adult locality team based in Wareham, serving the population in the surrounding area of Purbeck. We are a small, friendly, multi-disciplinary team who work together with our co-located health colleagues who share the building to support our population of approx. 40,000 people in the towns of Wareham, Swanage, Upton, and the surrounding villages.

We are a supportive team who work in a collaborative way with a strengths-based approach, managing our work and identified risks as a team. We support a diverse range of service users and so can offer excellent opportunities for staff to develop their practice. We offer hybrid and flexible working and support working from home.

**About You**:
You will have excellent communication skills, enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, have a flexible approach and be able to work closely with a range of professionals.

You will be confident in meeting new people and be able to adapt to work across a range of social care settings.

You will be creative and passionate about enabling people to be as independent as possible.

You will be able to fulfil the travel requirements of the post.

**What we offer**:
We are an organisation with a strong commitment to a strengths-based approach in our relationships with customers and employees alike.We foster a vibrant, happy, and high achieving workforce.

We offer regular, reflective supervision that supports Continuous Professional Development.

We are an organisation that is proud of its robust learning and development offer. This includes access to mentoring and coaching, Social Work and Occupational Therapy apprenticeship schemes, and internal training to support your development.

We promote career development.

We offer access to wellbeing support and other support services.

You will have access to the Local Government Pension scheme.

We offer a minimum of 27 days holiday rising to 32 days after five years’ service, and the option to purchase more.

**Further Information**:
This is an exciting time within Adult Social Care as you will be involved in transforming the way we work and have an integral role in positively implementing change to meet both organisational and customer demand.

**Interviews will be held via Teams and will take place on Monday 22nd April.**

If you are interested in learning more about the detail of this particular role, please take a look at our video:
**About Us**:
We’re passionate about making Dorset a great place to live, work and visit. Working for us should be no exception.

At Dorset Council we:

- provide more than 450 services to over 300,000 residents
- have ambitious aspirations
- are excited about our future
- care about Dorset and all the people who live here
- know that all roles make a difference and that our employees are key to our success

You will:

- have access to a range of employee benefits
- be part of an organisation that supports each other to grow and succeed
- have access to range of training opportunities which will help with your personal development and career progression

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We offer an interview to everyone who declares a disability and meets the essential criteria for the role.

We also look for applicants who share our commitment to our behaviours. We will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

This role is UK based and we will need to establish your Right to Work as part of the appointment process.

We use generic job descriptions and person specifications. This means the job title on any attachments may differ from the job title in the advert. We may provide specific information in a context statement if relevant.

See our adult safeguarding policy.

This post involves:

- working with vulnerable adults
- and/or having access to significant information about them

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