Social Care Practitioner

We are looking for a Social Care Practitioner to join our First Response team in Bath and North East Somerset.

As a Social Care Practitioner in our First Response team, you will have the opportunity to work alongside social workers and other professionals to support adults with physical or learning disabilities who may be experiencing social, emotional or practical challenges in managing their daily lives.

This is a full-time opportunity to join a fantastic team where your role will play a key part in maximising the health, wellbeing and independence of individuals in the Bath and North East Somerset area. You will undertake Care Act 2014 assessments on behalf of the Council for adults and carers and determine eligibility for funded support via a personal budget to meet individual needs.

The hours are typically 9-5 and you will be expected to work from the office with flexibility to work from home.

• To gather information about an individual’s presenting circumstances, identify any immediate risks and plan actions and interventions accordingly
• Undertake short term support assessments, Care Act and Carers’ Assessments to determine eligibility for funded social care support
• Monitor the quality of care provided and review support plans in the community and residential and nursing home placements
• Undertake straightforward Mental Capacity assessments and, where appropriate, complete Best Interests Decisions in accordance with the Mental Capacity Act 2005

This list is not exhaustive; please refer to the job description to see an depth outline of the roles key responsibilities.

We are looking for someone who has experience working directly with older people or those with learning disabilities who can also demonstrate effective verbal and written communication. The ideal candidate will possess knowledge and understanding of the legislation that applies to social care practice and a good working knowledge of safeguarding adults’ policies and issues.

While this is not essential, we would welcome applications from those who have experience of assessment, support planning and undertaking reviews, working in an empowering and person-centred way. It is also desirable if you have experience of applying eligibility criteria/ thresholds and a good understanding of ‘strengths based’ principles.

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.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

As a Social Care Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued team in Peasedown St. John, Bath.

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 to £33,000 depending on experience 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