Social Care Coordinator- [United Kingdom]

 

Grade: I

Vacancy Hours: 20 hours per week

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Contract Type: Permanent

Weekend Working: Yes

Closing Date: 20th July 2023

Interview Date: 2nd August 2023

Venue for Interview: White Rose House, Thurston Road, Northallerton

We are currently looking for a Social Care Coordinator to help us realise our ambition of ensuring that all residents of North Yorkshire live longer, healthier, independent lives.

This unique opportunity is a part time, 20 hour established post in our Discharge Hub Team with a working pattern of 5 hours over 4 days from Monday to Friday. In your role as a Social Care Coordinator, you will be largely located at the Friarage Hospital supporting our Team and the Trust’s Discharge Facilitators with facilitating the discharges of people, who are ready for discharge from hospital.

Our Team is based in Northallerton and predominantly covers hospital discharges emanating from the South Tees Hospital Trust sites including James Cook, Friarage, and the Friary. We do also support Darlington Memorial Hospital, Bishop Auckland General Hospital and other outlying hospitals too with people who are being discharged from hospital living in the northern patch of North Yorkshire.

Working in a fast-paced environment, you will work closely with our health colleagues to ensure that seamless pathways of care are delivered under discharge to assess arrangements. You will undertake assessments under discharge to assess arrangements whilst being mindful of the importance of a strengths-based focus and preventative measures to ensure we have the person’s wellbeing at the heart of what we do.

You may need to be involved in considering the Mental Capacity of people being discharged from hospital, if this is called into question and requires Best Interests decisions to be made on their behalf involving both families, health professionals and other relevant partners in our wider communities. We can be creative with the approaches that we use to ensuring that someone is able to have their needs met in a safe manner, whilst clearly noting the importance of thinking ‘Home First’.

At the same time, you will be considering whether there are any informal carers who may need to be referred for assessments. Within your work, you will also have key responsibilities for ensuring that vulnerable adults are safe from harm but where harm or abuse is identified for ensuring relevant safeguarding enquiries are progressed.

We know that working in Adult Social Care can be both a rewarding and challenging profession. Therefore, it’s important to us that our team members have manageable workloads, supportive and transparent management, and the opportunity for continuous professional development.

We strive and excel in giving our colleagues commitment and high levels of support, enabling them to become skilled in their role. We are committed to creating a healthy culture where our team members feel able to share their views, to achieve work/life balance and to continually learn and develop new ways of working.

As an organisation, we promote a safe culture of support and learning which we expect all staff to endorse. We recognise the importance of the health and wellbeing of our employees, striving to ensure our staff have manageable case workloads and providing them with specialised administrative support, allowing focus on delivery of care services.

In addition to this we can also offer a range of benefits including generous leave entitlement, flexible working, a local government pension scheme, salary sacrifice and employee discount benefits. North Yorkshire is a modern council rolling out new technology including modern IT equipment, WIFI access across NYC buildings, remote access, and Teams – all enabling and supporting flexible working.

If you would like to have an informal discussion about the role prior to applying, please contact Paula Atkins, Team Manager on 07971 543819 or send a email to: Paula.Atkins@northyorks.gov.uk

Enhanced Level DBS Disclosure is required for appointment to this post.

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