Community Support Worker â Career Graded
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Job Description
Organisation:Leicestershire County Council
Work Location:Various
Worker Category:Hybrid office based up to 3 days per week
Salary:Gradeper annum (pro rata for parttime)
Working Hours:Various
Contract Type:Permanent
Closing Date:23/05/2025
Are you looking for a rewarding career where you can make a difference to the lives of adults in Leicestershire Are you passionate about promoting independence
About the Role
As a Community Support Worker you will meet with individuals families and carers to connect and listen and where necessary undertake an assessment under the Care Act 2014. Where there is an eligible need you will devise a plan for how the person can access the support they require this may be connecting with their local community referral on to other agencies or provide service to support their unmet need. Where necessary you will identify and report potential safeguarding consider mental capacity and other highrisk situations where a persons safety or liberty may be at risk. Your team will have an office base and can work in a hybrid way. You will undertake visits to people in their own homes in a hospital setting or wherever the person feels most comfortable to meet you.
We have vacancies in the following teams:
- Home First East / West Discharge(permanent 18.5 and 37 hours per week) Bassett Street & Coalville Leicestershire
Our Teams
Home First is a busy frontline team offering short term support to older adults and people with physical and mental health conditions. You will be required to work at pace and manage your own case. You will need to be assertive dynamic and resilient to manage this exciting and rewarding position. We have a great team who are supportive and knowledgeable to support your induction into our service.
To find out more about what its like to be a Community Support Worker please see Katies storyhere.
We are passionate about developing your career in social care.
As a Grade 9 Community Support Worker you will be expected to have sufficient experience knowledge and skills to manage your workload under supervision to deliver a high quality person centred accountable statutory social care. This includes demonstrating competency undertaking Care and Support Assessments Mental Capacity Assessments and making Best Interest decisions.
As a Community Support Worker there are further opportunities to develop your career in Adult Social Care at Leicestershire County Council such as the opportunity to apply to undertake a Social Work Apprenticeship Occupational Therapy Apprenticeship and routes in leadership roles.
Please clickhereto see the CSW career progression plan.
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
You will require a valid full driving licence or access to a vehicle for this position.
About You
To apply for the CSW post you must:
- Hold a Level 2 in Maths and English
- Have relevant experience of working with adults in a social care setting and of working with other agencies within a fieldwork environment.
- Understand the need to undertake need and risk assessments and the issues/needs that adults and their families/carers may have.
- Have a good understanding of social care organisations and their roles and responsibilities as part of the wider community and voluntary sector.
- Be a confident communicator who is skilled in negotiation persuasion assertiveness and conflict management and able to build effective working relationships.
- Be able to recognise the limits of own accountability and responsibility and to seek appropriate support and advice when required.
- Be able to manage a caseload and work to clear objectives.
We would also expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.
Interested in Flexible Working
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Thereforewherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstanceswhilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role please contact the person named below. This may include requests for termtime working parttime hours compressed hours flexible start and finish times home/remote working etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in theOur Working Stylespage on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion please contact:
Chelbie Shepherd Resourcing Coordinator
Telephone: 0
Email:
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality diversity and inclusion at every warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the About You section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job please click Apply Now. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the About You section more information see theHow to Applysection on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post please contact our Employee Service Centre: applying for this post you agree to ourTerms and Conditions.
Employment Type
Full-Time
