Job Introduction
Are you looking to work for a welcoming, friendly team that will thoroughly support you? The Bath Social Care Team are looking for passionate individuals to join a team who are focused on excellent social care, where you are an integral part of our multi-professional provision in Adult Social Care.
As an Adult Social Care Community Team we work with a wide range of people with varying presenting needs. This provides excellent opportunities for developing social work skills and knowledge. The team is experienced, supportive and reflective and consists of social workers, social care practitioners, occupational therapists and administrators.
Main Responsibility
As an Adult Care Social Care Practitioner worker, your work will be rewarding and you will be undertaking assessments and support plans with people who have physical disabilities or other complex needs. This role will involve working with families, carers and other professionals, agencies and organisations across the World Heritage site of Bath.
The work is focused on promoting independence, enabling the individuals we work with to remain in their own homes and reduce the need for hospital admission or long term care. The ideal candidate will be someone who has experience of working in a health and/or social care setting and who has knowledge of the Care Act; and the ability to apply it in practice.
You will understand what really matters to our service users, families and their carers working closely with the community and partner agencies and have the ability to understand local needs by supporting individuals in a positive and responsive way. You will be committed to maintaining your professional standards as our service continues to develop and enable the creative use of resources including assistive technology.
Be part of a team who continuously achieve greatness and are passionate and committed in ensuring good quality care and support is provided to the people we support.
The team are focussed on professional growth and development, and will ensure you feel valued every day. Alongside this, as a social worker you will receive:
Supportive team with regular supervision, mentoring and support.
Salary, group pension.
Varity of service users to work with in the community setting, no day is the same.
Flexible working to provide you with that true work / life balance.
As a large provider of health and social care, opportunities for development amongst the wider contract
The Ideal Candidate
As Adult Social Care Practitioners, we understand the work you do on a daily basis and provide the support you need to make a difference to the people of Bath. We will expect you to be highly motivated, passionate about social care, creative and committed to your own continuous professional development.
To join us, you must have: A Relevant qualification equivalent to NVQ Level 4 or equivalent Health and Social Care experience.
Training related to Health and Social Care assessments and experience of managing a caseload including working with people experiencing a range of physical disabilities, medical, mental health difficulties and learning difficulties.
Evidence of good interpersonal skills, good verbal / written communication and good IT skills
If you would like to have a conversation about the role, or your application please contact Suzanne Michael on 01225 396300 or Suzanne.michael@hcrgcaregroup.com
Package Description
As a Social Care Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued Bath Social Care Team at St Martins Hospital
You will feel valued as a Social Care Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- A salary of £27,500 with access to our group pension
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission.
Part time 22.5 hours per week. Please be aware this is a community post covering the city of Bath.
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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