Social Care Assessor

Cheshire East Council (CEC) is looking for self-motivated Social Care Assessors to join our innovative and friendly Adult Social Care Teams with a base in Macclesfield.

**Organisation**
- Cheshire East Council

**Location**
- Macclesfield

**Job Category**
- Social Care

**Grade**
- CEC NJC - Grade 7

**Salary Min**
- £30,559 per annum

**Salary Max**
- £33,366 per annum

**Hours per week**
- 37

**Weeks per year**
- 52.143

**Employment Type**
- Permanent

**Closing Date**
- 17/06/2025

**Ref No**
- E3087

Cheshire East is an amazing place to live and work. As one of the largest employers in the borough, we are able to offer you a wide range of challenging and rewarding career opportunities.

At Cheshire East Council we are working for a brighter future - together and our commitment to you is that our workplace culture will provide a shared purpose, a well-led organisation with valued people succeeding together as one team and one council to deliver the best service for our customers and communities.

If you want to be part of our award-winning council and contribute to our ongoing success, have the flexibility and drive to enable us to innovate, are committed to working as part of a team and striving to deliver exceptional service wherever you can, we would especially like to hear from you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and want our workforce to reflect the diversity of our local communities so that we can all work for a brighter future - together.

Brighter Future

These posts will provide a wide range of learning and training opportunities and includes joint working across the Health and Social Care sector. It will provide you with an excellent opportunity to progress your career and will offer you a wide range of experiences within Adult Social Care services. There is a vacancy in the East area and is part of the Home First process and the Transformation agenda. This is working within the Adult Community Teams and supporting the Rapid Response service to support and assess individuals discharged from hospital or preventing hospital admissions, working with the Community Connectors and Local Area Coordinator and full training on processes will be provided. These new posts include Social Care Assessors who have experience with minor aids and equipment and an ability to understand and assess risks in the community and an ability to work with the Occupational Therapy service.

The Adult Community Teams are part of the wider Care Community Partnerships with GP’s, Matrons, Mental Health services, Housing and voluntary sector services as they take a collaborative approach to supporting people within its footprint. The Community Teams provide support for any adults over the age of 18 years and includes, adult safeguarding, those with a learning disability, autism, mental health concerns, physical disabilities and homelessness. This is an exciting opportunity for a Social Care Assessor to develop new and innovative ways of working and it is therefore essential that you have an appropriate Heath & Social care qualification and experience of adult social care and be able to work under pressure. The successful applicant will need to be able to adopt a flexible approach to their work and be a good team player. Hybrid working of being home or office based are available. Having a car is a necessity as you will be expected to undertake visits and attend training sessions.

What we are looking for:

- Enthusiastic Social Care Assessors who have an understanding of adult social care, minor aids and equipment, mental capacity and safeguarding issues.
- You will need to have good organisational and time management skills as this is key to effectively managing caseloads.
- It will be essential for the post holder to work autonomously within the Council’s policies and professional practice, in addition to maintaining accurate and comprehensive client documentation.

The post holder will be based at Macclesfield Town Hall but there may be a necessity to travel to other bases.

Cheshire East Council operates a ‘flexible and mobile’ working policy.

Please quote job reference number in all correspondence.