Salary range: Grade 8 pro rata £20,091 to £21,030 p.a. plus fantastic benefits
Contract: Permanent
Hours of work: Part time 18 hours per week
Location: Croydon
If you are unqualified and have experience of working in Adult Social Care and Health, why not come and join us as a Health and Wellbeing Assessor on a part time basis.
We need a committed and knowledgeable social worker to help us with our core business – empowering and supporting people who need signposting, community support, or even some direct help from the Council. We have a strong operating model of a strengths-based approach.
We also need a committed and knowledgeable unqualified person to help us with our core business – empowering and supporting people who need signposting, community support, or even some direct help from the Council to come and join us as a health and wellbeing assessor. We have a strong operating model of a strengths-based approach.
At this difficult time the Council Leadership has made clear their support for our statutory functions, including Adult Social Care and Health. We know where our priorities are as a council.
We have an established and stable team of social workers, health and wellbeing assessors and a team manager to work with you and support you. Our vacancy rates are low, and we rarely use agency staff, preferring to concentrate our efforts on looking after our permanent staff. This includes having a dedicated training officer supporting adult social care and health, and a Principal Social Worker to support staffs’ welfare and practice. We have also recently upgraded our electronic recording system.
Advanced Social worker
You are expected to have post qualifying experience and be prepared to take on supervision and support of social workers and health and wellbeing assessors. You will form part of the duty rota to allocate work and provide professional support and guidance to other staff on duty.
These posts are located in the Purley locality team based in Bernard Weatherill House assessing and reviewing older people in the community. You will work with other professionals in an integrated service providing strengths-based assessments to promote independence and support people to remain living in their own homes.
Working in Croydon
Applicants wishing to join our aspiring and progressive adult social care and health department will have a commitment to team working and an enthusiasm for contributing to sharing ideas that support the development of all our services. Candidates will demonstrate professionalism, creativity, and drive in their approach to person centred practice and problem solving; and an ability to work flexibly in response to a rapidly changing public service environment. Additionally, the staff here at Croydon are friendly, and the transport links are excellent, as well as our current hybrid working policy.
Croydon Council Benefits
Croydon Council has one of the best benefits schemes in local government
From childcare vouchers, flexible working and generous annual leave entitlement to high street shopping vouchers and fantastic health and leisure discounts, there really is something for everyone, whatever your taste or lifestyle. “We want Croydon Council to be a place where our staff enjoy their jobs and are proud to be here. We encourage development and invest heavily in helping you excel and achieve your full potential. We reward talent and excellence, and our flagship benefits schemes, options, allows you to enjoy a healthy work life balance.
There is a benefits section on the website
We will interview within two weeks from the closing date, with a view to starting workers as soon as possible, subject Human Resources checks.
For further information please contact AdefolakeTaiwo.Awoseyi@Croydon.gov.uk
And /or Deborah.Howard@Croydon.gov.uk
Croydon Council’s priorities
The Council balances its books, listens to residents, and delivers good sustainable services
Key business plan outcomes:
Equal Opportunities Statement
Croydon Council is an inclusive employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Subject to business needs, we will be pleased to consider applications from candidates seeking flexible working arrangements and support hybrid working, whereby staff attend the workplace for part of their working week and work from home, or elsewhere, remotely for the rest of the time.
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised role.
Croydon council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.
The Successful candidate will be subject to a DBS check, if the role requires one.
We provide a large number of services for local people, businesses and visitors to the borough, including services for children and adults, and environmental, cultural, sports, housing, planning and benefits services.
The borough is split into 24 electoral wards, and local elections are held every four years.
With a workforce of approximately 3,300 staff, including teachers in schools, Croydon Council is the largest employer in the borough. Spending over £900 million per year, the council makes a significant contribution to the local economy.
The council comprises three main political functions, the Executive (Leader and Cabinet), Committees, and Scrutiny.
The Leader and Cabinet are responsible and accountable for shaping policies and plans and recommending them to the council for approval. Cabinet also gives direction to departmental directors on the way services are managed and the budgets allocated to them.
Six non-executive committees take decisions relating to planning, licensing, standards of behaviour and conduct for members and officers, staffing issues, tenders, property transactions, liaison with local utility companies and internal audit.
Scrutiny holds the council executive functions to account. Examining aspects of council performance, the Overview and Scrutiny Committee also increasingly involves other local agencies which contribute to the economic, social and environmental well-being of the local population.
