Assistant Practitioner
About Southwark:
Southwark is a large, ambitious and progressive council with a ‘can do’ attitude and enviable reputation. As a Council, we are successful, passionate and forward-thinking. We are committed to our ‘Fairer Futures for All’ promise which ensures that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do. If you want to make a difference at a local level, apply to Southwark Council today.
The Role:
We are recruiting to Assistant Practitioner posts within our Transfer of Care Review Team. Based in the community the Transfer of Care Review Team is part of Southwark’s Adult Hospital Discharge Team and supports service users who have left hospital but need further monitoring, assessment or review. The team provides a multidisciplinary approach to assessing and supporting people and work using a strength-based approach focusing on people’s strengths, assets and abilities. This enables us to support individuals to make greater use of their community resources and to maximise their independence.
As part of the team you will be responsible for completing Care Act assessments and reviews to determine whether or not an individual is eligible for services. This includes the undertaking of proportionate assessments and reviews, planning and proactively working with complex issues, family dynamics, crisis interventions, providing information and advice, transferring to other teams if required.
About You:
Throughout your time at Southwark you will be constantly learning. You will be challenged by your work, encouraged to try new approaches and supported to maximise your potential. We will invest in providing the resources you need to develop professionally, through a combination of informal on-the-job and formal development programmes.
You will require a Disclosure and Barring Service Check for this role.
Recruitment timetable
Closing date: 28/08/2022
Shortlisting Date: 02/09/2022
Assessments and interview date: 12/09/2022
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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Salary: £31,155 - £35,298
Work Hours: Full-time
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Tooley Street SE1 2QH
Date Posted: 15/08/2022
Closing Date: 28/08/2022
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