Social Care Assessor
Wrexham Council are seeking a Social Care Assessor to work alongside Social Workers in providing information, advice, and assistance as the first point of contact for children in Wrexham Children's services. The successful candidate will be responsible for undertaking What Matters conversations with parents, carers and children, liaising with partner agencies across the statutory, public and voluntary sector, assessing care and support needs, and working with families to assist with improving their wellbeing.
Key Responsibilities
- To carry a caseload of non-complex cases or to assist with complex cases, assessing needs, contributing to the formulation of plans, implementing and contributing to reviews of those plans, and carrying out such tasks as may be necessary to implement the plans.
- Liaising with partner agencies across the statutory, public and voluntary sector
- To visit and work directly with service users in order to consult them on their preferences, establish their needs and to implement designated actions from care plans.
- Working with families to assist with improving their wellbeing.
- Providing information, advice, and assistance to children and families.
Requirements
- NVQ Lvl 3 Promoting indp/Health & Social Care or equivalent experience.
- Knowledge of the Social Services and Well Being (Wales) Act 2014.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
How to Apply
If you are interested, please call Chris Richardson on or email me your CV -
If this role isn't right for you, but you know someone who would fit perfectly to our engaged and devoted team and you refer them, you will receive a referral bonus of £250.
The benefits of working with SCS:
- A specialist dedicated Social Work consultant offering single point of contact.
- Exceptional referral bonuses - £250 per referral placed in to work!
- An extensive & exclusive range of Social Work vacancies across the UK
- Nationwide provider Social Work staff to over 200 local authorities.
- Payroll service twice a week.
- Ltd and PAYE payment options available.
- Annual training budget of up to £250 and continued online CPD training.
- Excellent Annual Loyalty schemes / bonuses.
- DBS disclosures provided via fast-track online services free of charge.