Job Description: Duties and responsibilities

• To use safeguarding adult procedures to safeguard adults form abuse
• Identify and undertake adult safeguarding enquiries where abuse or neglect is suspected.
• Support vulnerable adults to manage risk, know how to intervene proportionately and ensuring people are protecting from harm, while protecting their human rights
• Assess and manage risk, knowing how to intervene proportionately and ensuring adults are protected from harm, whilst protecting their human rights.
• Undertake proportionate assessment in accordance with current Adult Social Care legislation including MCA and best interest assessments.
• To make independent decisions and support situations in which risk, ambiguity or complexity is greatest.
• To support services users and their carers and families to enable them to retain, as far as possible, choice and control of their lives.
• To provide written and verbal reports, appropriate for legal purposes, which are concise, informative and based on complex evidence to support problem solving and resolution?
• Manage complex cases, in situations which involve, risk, complexity and safety of the service user and others.
• Complete support planning with services users to ensure that outcomes identified at assessment are met within budgetary constraints through the provision of support, equipment, adaptations and enabling programmes.
• Identifying through assessment the needs and strengths of service users and/or family carers and source appropriate solutions and interventions.
• Undertake Risk and Care needs assessment to individuals, their carers in accordance with Care Act 2014.

Ensuring the ethos of supporting independence is adhered to when working with vulnerable adults and their carers.

• Initiate and co-ordinate support plans for and with individual service users and their carers, in conjunction with professional colleagues and representatives of voluntary and private agencies
• Together with the service users and carers, formulate and implement personal budgets and support plans
• Monitor, review and evaluate services of individual service users and their carers
• Identify and report unmet need and service shortfalls in the construction of individual support plans
• Maintain client records in accordance with Council policy and GDPR

If you are interested in this role please send your updated CV in the first instance.