Job Title: Reviewing Officer (Adult Social Care)
Location: Hackney
Salary / Pay Rate: £26 p/h umbrella
Job Type: Contract (6 months+)
The Role:
The post holder will be responsible for carrying out strengths based reviews and reassessments regarding people with long term conditions in accordance with the principles of the Care Act and under the guidance and supervision of the Senior Practitioner. They will visit people in their own homes and also within care home settings to meet with the service users their families and carers to discuss the support plan, which will entail lone working. They will draw up an appropriate, budgeted outcome based support plan using the Resource Allocation System and will monitor established plans and residential nursing home placements, ensuring they the support is effective at maximising the person's independence.
The post holder will provide information, advice and signpost service users to a range of universal services based on the outcome of the assessments and recommend and set up Telecare support where appropriate.
They will use their knowledge and skills to assess the cost of support appropriate to meeting a service users' needs and be aware of the financial implications of the work undertaken.
The Candidate:
- Experience of working in a social care setting for adults with long term conditions.
- Experience of reviewing and reassessing the needs of service users, within a social services context.
- Experience of carrying out visits to service user's homes and care home settings, to carry out the review.
- Experience of completing needs led reassessments and reviews from a strengths based perspective.
- Experience of monitoring and reviewing the impact of support against agreed outcomes to ensure it is effective.
- Experience of recording confidential and sensitive information accurately and confidentially.
How to apply:
Please submit your application via the contact details provided and you will be contacted with further information about this opportunity or email your CV to me directly; or call me on; 0161 667 0025.
