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Local Area Coordinator
Cheshire East Council is looking for an enthusiastic and committed individual to join our community adult social care teams as a Local Area Coordinator (LAC).
You will have a varied caseload supporting adults with care and support needs and their care. You will join a multi-disciplinary team of social workers, social care assessors, occupational therapists, and local area coordinators, with a mixture of home and office-based working. In this role you will be linking individuals in with third sector and community resources. You will receive support and training to help with your professional development.
We have a part time vacancy in the Congleton and Holmes Chapel team, but you will potentially be working across the south of the Cheshire East footprint.
Organisation Cheshire East Council Location Congleton Job Category Social Care Grade CEC NJC - Grade 7 Salary Min £29,269 Pro rata per annum Salary Max £32,076 Pro rata per annum Hours per week 18 Weeks per year 52.143 Employment Type Permanent Closing Date 31/07/2024 Ref No E2606 Documents(PDF, 285.89kb)
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.
The LAC will support community adult social care teams by identifying resources, groups, services, and organisations within the local area that will benefit adults and young people in transition who have eligible care and support needs under the Care Act. The LAC will coordinate information on available community support within the Cheshire East Council (CEC) adult social care team areas. A key role is to enable and support adults with eligible care and support needs, to access existing community support rather than to rely on funded CEC Services. A further key role is to identify gaps in community support, to inform Strategic Commissioning and liaise with Health and Wellbeing to stimulate the development of community resources to meet the identified need. Direct work with individual customers and their families on the LAC’s caseload will be required.
The postholder will also be required to carry out the full range of duties expected of a Social Care Assessor in relation to the individuals and their carers on their caseload.
You will have experience of working with vulnerable people and their carers in a Social Care or Health setting. Good communication skills are essential and the ability to manage a caseload.
Within the framework of legislation, agreed Council Policies and Procedures, to work with and on behalf of vulnerable people by completing the required needs-based assessments, arranging a full range of services and care managing a case load of clients and carers.
Cheshire East Council is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults across the Borough. As such, any cautions, convictions, reprimands or final warnings that are ‘not protected’ as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) order 1975 (as amended in 2013) relating to the non-disclosure of spent convictions do not apply to this job. You must therefore, disclose whether you have any previous convictions where prompted to do so within the application process.
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If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date then it is likely that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion, however please do not be discouraged from applying again.
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