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2 months ago
This is an exciting opportunity to work with Kent County Council's Shared Lives Service, providing high-quality support to vulnerable adults in their homes.
As a Shared Lives Officer, you will be responsible for assessing, monitoring, and developing Carers to ensure they provide excellent support to adults in their care.
You will work within a dedicated team to ensure that Shared Lives Carers meet Care Quality Commission (CQC) and in-house performance standards.
Key responsibilities include:
- Assessing and monitoring Carers to ensure they meet the needs of adults in their care.
- Developing and implementing care plans to support adults in leading independent and fulfilling lives.
- Working with the Referrals Officer to coordinate new placements and ensure a robust matching process with potential Carers and their families.
- Supervising Shared Lives Assistant Officers and Shared Lives Workers.
- Providing experience of working with people with assessed social care needs, completing assessments and care planning.
- Having a sound understanding and experience of adult safeguarding.
Requirements include:
- Degree in Social Work or equivalent in a related discipline.
- Experience of working within a multi-agency environment.
- Knowledge of relevant Social Care legislation.
- 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.
- Registration with the Health Care Professionals Council.
Kent County Council offers an attractive benefits package, a commitment to ensuring a healthy work-life balance, and opportunities for flexible working arrangements that meet business needs.
Annual leave is 29 days rising to 30 after 5 years of service, Bank holidays, and an annual concessionary day around Christmas.
There are additional benefits that can be accessed via [insert link].
You will have excellent opportunities for professional development with access to our social care academy.
This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position, and the Council has a statutory duty to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements.
This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure and Barring service and a relevant professional qualification (Social Work, Nursing, or Occupational Therapy) as well as up-to-date registration with the appropriate professional body.
