Social Care Assessor - Flexible Hours, Career Growth

Cheshire East Council; Macclesfield; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Annual leave

Leave purchase option

Flexible working pattern

Green car salary sacrifice

White goods salary sacrifice

Public pension

Cycle to work

Employee assistance programme

Gym membership

Job summary

Cheshire East Council in Macclesfield is recruiting for two full‑time posts (37 hours) and one part‑time post (30 hours) in Short Term Services East, based at Macclesfield Town Hall/Hospital.

You will work with diverse customer groups, health professionals and non-clinical staff; keep accurate records; and contribute to wellbeing and timely support, with a competitive salary and generous annual leave.

Qualifications

• Experience working with a variety of customer groups.
• Experience working closely with Health professionals
• Experience supervising/mentoring trainee staff
• Understanding of human development, crisis intervention
• Up to date knowledge of relevant legislations e.g. NHS and Community Care Act
• Self-motivating with ability to organise and prioritise workload
• Positive attitude to change
• Good team worker and willingness to support less experienced colleagues
• Good IT skills, including use of database system to log caseload information
• Ability to keep accurate case records
• Problem solver

Skills

Experience with diverse customerGroups

Experience with health professionals

Supervising/mentoring trainees

Crisis intervention understanding

NHS & Community Care Act knowledge

Organise and prioritise workload

Positive attitude to change

Team player

IT skills & logging caseload

Accurate case records

Problem solving

Job description

Cheshire East Council in Macclesfield is recruiting for two full‑time posts (37 hours) and one part‑time post (30 hours) in Short Term Services East, based at Macclesfield Town Hall/Hospital.

You will work with diverse customer groups, health professionals and non-clinical staff; keep accurate records; and contribute to wellbeing and timely support, with a competitive salary and generous annual leave.