About The Job
Salary : £31,586 to £34,314 per annum
Working Pattern : Full-time, 37 hours per week
Contract Type : Fixed-term until March 2026*
Location : Office-based in Shoreham, covering the Adur, Arun, and Worthing areas
Interview Date : Week commencing 19th May
*If you're an internal candidate, this position may be available as a secondment. Please ensure you discuss this with your manager before applying.
We’re excited to offer an opportunity for an Advanced Assistant Care Manager to join the Changing Futures Programme Sussex, as part of a dynamic multi-disciplinary team (MDT) within the Communities Directorate at West Sussex County Council.
Your Key Responsibilities
As an Advanced Assistant Care Manager, you’ll:
1. Provide intensive, person-centred support to help individuals lead meaningful, independent lives.
2. Undertake strengths-based assessments under the guidance of a Social Work England-registered social worker and help develop and implement care and support plans that improve wellbeing and deliver outcomes.
3. Carry out risk assessments and assessments under the Mental Capacity Act 2005, appropriate to your skills, knowledge, and experience.
4. Represent Adult Services in multi-disciplinary forums related to housing, homelessness, substance misuse, and self-neglect.
5. Manage a small budget for emergency provisions and subsistence to support people in urgent need.
In addition, you'll need to build a working knowledge of housing legislation and understand how it intersects with adult social care responsibilities.
What You’ll Need
This role requires flexibility and resilience. You’ll need to:
6. Work flexibly to support customers, carers, and families as needed.
7. Travel across the county, including to locations not easily accessible by public transport.
8. Be comfortable working with individuals who may be living in unsafe or unhygienic conditions and engaging in high-risk lifestyles.
A key aspect of this role involves identifying systemic barriers, adopting creative approaches, and contributing to continuous learning and development across the team.
Experience and Skills
Key Skills (please cover with examples within your application as these are the short listing criteria):
9. Ability to develop and deliver innovative solutions for individuals, to engage with community assets and minimise the need for long-term formal support.
10. A passion for enabling people to live independent and meaningful lives that meet their personal aspirations.
11. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to interact effectively with a range of stakeholders to provide clear advice and guidance.
12. Ability to recognise the limits of own accountability and responsibility, and to know when to seek appropriate support, advice and supervision.
13. Ability to develop relationships within a multi-agency working environment that has contributed to improvements to individuals and or services.
14. Experience of working within the statutory requirements of Adult Social Care, with experience of working in a hands-on role.
15. Experience of strengths-based assessment of needs, and negotiating and implementing effective plans and outcomes working in partnership to meet people’s outcomes.
16. Experience of working with adults with homelessness, current or historical offending, substance misuse, domestic abuse, and mental ill health.
17. Experience of applying a risk enablement approach and using evidence-based practice.
18. Knowledge of a variety of associated legislation, for example Care Act, Mental Capacity, safeguarding, housing regulations, tenancy law.
19. Good working knowledge of District and Borough housing sector
Rewards and Benefits
For a full list of the benefits offered to you as a West Sussex County Council employee you can find them on our Rewards and Benefits page.