Community Care Officer 1160/4003

Lincolnshire County Council; Lincoln; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Lincolnshire County Council's Hospital Social Care Team at Lincoln County Hospital is seeking a Community Care Officer to support across NLAG hospitals, with base at Louth Hospital.

You will join a multidisciplinary team to help people leave hospital safely and regain independence, with travel to other sites as needed.

Qualifications

• GCSEs with English and Maths, or equivalent.
• Experience in strengths-based practice to promote independence.
• Able to develop care packages with input from carers/families.

Responsibilities

• Work as directed to assess needs and enable independence.
• Follow Directorate policies and pursue CPD as required.
• Hold and manage a caseload with higher-need service users.
• Provide equipment and arrange minor adaptations as needed.
• Represent the Directorate at multi-agency meetings.

Skills

Strengths-based practice

Independence-focused care

Care planning

Education

GCSEs including English and Maths

Job description

Job summary

Are you looking for a role where no two days are the same?

Our Hospital Social Care Team at Lincoln County Hospital is looking for a Community Care Officer to join us to support across the Northern Lincolnshire and Goole (NLAG) hospitals, including Grimsby Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital, Goole and District Hospital, Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital and Hull Hospital. The post is based at Louth Hospital.

What will you be doing?

You will be part of our Lincoln County Hospital Team, providing social work support across the Northern Lincolnshire and Goole (NLAG) hospitals, including Grimsby Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital, Goole and District Hospital, Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital and Hull Hospital. Whilst covering these settings, your base will be Louth. You will be part of a busy, supportive multidisciplinary team, working alongside social workers, occupational therapists, nurses, therapists and health colleagues to help people leave hospital safely and return to living as independently as possible.

Hospital-based, but not limited to one hospital

Although you will be part of the team at Lincoln County Hospital, our team also supports hospital discharges from Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) hospitals, including Grimsby Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital, Goole and District Hospital and Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital. This means that travel to other hospital sites may be required as part of the role.

Main duties of the job

Your role will include:

• Completing assessments and identifying people's care and support needs.
• Working in a strengths-based way to achieve positive outcomes.
• Helping to arrange and develop personalised care and support packages.
• Providing information and advice to people and their families.
• Working with health, housing, voluntary and independent sector colleagues.
• Supporting qualified social workers, therapists and nurses.
• Identifying and managing risk, including responding to safeguarding concerns.
• Arranging equipment and minor adaptations where appropriate.
• Monitoring and reviewing care and support arrangements.
• Contributing to multidisciplinary and multi-agency meetings.
• Keeping accurate records and using information to monitor progress and performance.

About us

Lincolnshire County Council, is one of the largest employers in the county. We are an organisation that embraces diversity, innovation and progress. We value our people and want to ensure that we can support you in joining and growing with us.

We will view you as an integral member of our community and recognise that your well-being is paramount. To show our appreciation, weve crafted a competitive package designed to not only acknowledge your hard work but also foster a healthy work-life balance.

From health benefits and retirement plans, we strive to provide a package that supports well-being and financial stability and that meets the diverse needs of our workforce.

We want everyone who works with us to feel included and celebrate their uniqueness. We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, eliminating unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation, and promoting good relations for both employee and for the people of Lincolnshire.

People often say every day is a learning day and at LCC a culture of learning is something we really believe in. We recognise the importance of supporting your learning and development and can offer a variety of different learning opportunities depending on what is right for you and the organisation. This could be through your everyday tasks, through hands‑on experience, structured programs, formal qualifications, coaching, or informal learning opportunities.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To work as directed by a supervisor (eg. Social Worker, Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Advanced Practitioner or Lead Professional) with people who may require care and support to identify needs, strengths and outcomes and provide a range of services to support people to manage their needs and maximise their independence. Managing a supervised caseload, you will work in a strengths-based way to achieve positive outcomes for people, ensuring people are as safe as possible and adult safeguarding concerns are addressed promptly.

1. 1 To work as directed by a supervisor (eg. Social Worker, Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Advanced Practitioner or Lead Professional) with people who may require care and support to identify needs, strengths and outcomes and provide a range of services to support people to manage their needs and maximise their independence. Managing a supervised caseload, you will work in a strengths-based way to achieve positive outcomes for people, ensuring people are as safe as possible and adult safeguarding concerns are addressed promptly.
2. 2 To work within the policies, practices of the Adult Care and Community Wellbeing Directorate to prescribed standards and to participate in learning and development as required to ensure Continuous Professional Development.
3. 3 Hold and manage a caseload of service users with a higher level of need. This will include the identification of people and the provision of information and advice. Including a potential for a complex response assessment of the persons and carers need, commissioning follow on care, monitoring and review, amending as required. Operating within budget framework set by the Directorate and managed by the Lead Practitioner.
4. 4 Provide support to Qualified Social Workers / therapists/ nurses as required in line with the service roles and responsibilities.
5. 5 To provide a range of equipment, arrange minor adaptation work and to teach alternative techniques to overcome the effects of disability on independent living where appropriate.
6. 6 Understand the value and usefulness of performance information and uses data to monitor service user progress and the teams overall performance.
7. 7 When appropriate represent the Directorate at multi-agency meetings. Share written / verbal information to both internal and external parties in line with Directorate policies and procedures and legal requirements.
8. 8 To undertake assessment of needs including any non-social care requirements such as health care or housing to enable planning, design and recording care packages in agreement with people, carers and other agencies within available resources and budgetary constraints.
9. 9 Develop care packages to include the design of individually tailored care packages for people in consultation with identified carers/ families.
10. 10 To work as a team member within the multi-disciplinary context and to develop professional working relationships with other agencies including Health Care Services, Housing Authorities and Voluntary and Independent Sector Services.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Good standard of general education with a minimum of 4 GCSE passes at Grade C or above or equivalent including English and Math's
• Experience of working in a strengths based practice model to promote independence.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Lincolnshire County Council

Address

3rd Floor, Lancaster House

36 Orchard Street

Lincoln

Lincolnshire

LN1 1XX

United Kingdom