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We are excited to announce a new opportunity for a Social Care Officer to join our Newly established Medway’s Intensive Support Team (MIST) within Adult Social Care. This role presents a unique chance to make a significant impact on the lives of individuals facing multi-faceted complexities, providing hands-on support and interventions within the community including but not exclusive to acute settings, individual’s homes and numerous other settings. The successful applicant will be required to have experience within Mental Health, Learning Disabilities, alcohol and Drug use, Safeguarding, homelessness, and outreach work.
As a Social Care officer in this dynamic team, you will utilize yourself as a tool to engage directly with clients, often in crisis situations, and those that require a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) response. Your role will involve advocating for individuals, ensuring their needs are met, and facilitating access to vital services. Strong communication skills are essential, as you will be required to build and maintain relationships with individuals accessing support, their families, and partner agencies, including housing, police, probation services, mental health professionals, and addiction support organizations.
Knowledge of the Medway area is crucial, as you will be navigating local resources and voluntary services to enhance the support available to individuals. Whist in Medway we support agile working, given the nature of this work, it will predominantly require a presence in both office and community settings, emphasizing direct engagement with clients to effectively address their needs.
Join us in this exciting new role, where you will play a key part in transforming lives and promoting positive outcomes for individuals within our community. Your expertise and compassion will be at the forefront of delivering high-quality social care, making a real difference in the lives of those we serve.
**In return we will offer you**:
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- Generous local government pension scheme package
- Access to wider training and development qualifications
- Flexible working scheme
- Travel plan discounts
- Access to CAREFIRST advice & counselling service
- Employee discount scheme for national and local retailers
Career Progression Frameworks (CPF) have been introduced for all roles at Medway Council. These frameworks provide a mechanism for employees to take ownership of their development within their post and be rewarded accordingly. This means that the salary you will be offered will be at level A unless, based on an assessment against the CPF criteria, you demonstrate that you are meeting the criteria of level B or C. There will be further opportunity once in post to progress from level A to B, and B to C.
The person specification of a job profile is split into three levels:
Level B details the developed competencies that an individual who is practised in this role would be able to demonstrate and will be a progression of knowledge, experience and skills from level A.
Level C requires the highest level of competence and applicants would need to fully meet and demonstrate all aspects of the job profile, including qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience.
**Our organisation**:
Medway is a unitary authority in the South East of England, made up of the towns of Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Rainham and more rural areas, including the Hoo Peninsula.
Situated in Kent in the South-East of England, the area has plenty of green spaces, excellent facilities and easy access to the national motorway and rail networks, facilitating superb transport links to London.
We provide all local Government services for a quarter of a million people, looking after education, environment, social care, housing, planning, business and much more - everything from frontline services such as rubbish collection and events like the Dickens Festival to work that goes on behind the scenes to ensure services in Medway run smoothly and cost effectively.
Working at Medway Council means that you get to be part of this journey working alongside talented, professional colleagues to drive forward change to transform the lives of our residents and the communities they live in.
**Important Information-**
Applicants must be able to demonstrate all essential requirements as listed in the job profile
**Equal Opportunities Commitment Statement**
For further information please refer to the Medway information pack available as a download or to view online
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time prior to the closing date.
If you are not contacted within 3 weeks of the advert closing date, then you have not been shortlisted.
