These roles are based in the Child Assessment and Safeguarding teams. These roles will be predominantly home working.

Role Responsibilities:

To use professional skills, knowledge, and experience and a range of interpersonal and specialist communication skills to gather information and make a full assessment of risks protection and social care needs of individuals and carers/families, within relevant legal and statutory frameworks, agreed priorities and current eligibility criteria. 

Refer to other relevant agencies and undertake joint assessments where appropriate to ensure all risks and needs are considered. 

To arrange, provide or purchase appropriate services/care within the Departments agreed priorities and resource framework to reflect best value principals and to comply with legislation and statutory duties. 

Take appropriate action in conjunction with other agencies and within legal and statutory framework, to protect vulnerable people. 

Manage an agreed case load in accordance with statutory and Departmental procedures and objectives, and professional good practice to enable individuals to achieve goals and maximise their strengths
Last updated: 19 02 2019

Monitor, review and reassess care packages/services against identified risks, needs, and objectives to ensure the continued effectiveness in achieving required or wanted outcomes.

If you are interested in either of these roles/ locations please send your updated CV in the first instance.