Job Brief
To contribute effectively and professionally to the work of the '0 -25 Together' Service by providing appropriate responses to children, young people, young adults, and their families in need of support and taking appropriate safeguarding action as required. More broadly, to support the delivery of the '0-25 Together' vision for a specialist service for disabled children, young people, young adults, and their families, focusing on enabling their independence and ensuring participation in their local community. The service will support young people and young adults until they are settled in adult life.
Main Areas of Responsibility
1. Responding to Need
* Provides professional responses in situations where children, young people, and adults need support, using skills to inform trusted assessments, decision-making, and interventions.
* Trusted Assessments: Undertakes proportionate assessment of vulnerable children, young people, and adults in accordance with current Children or Adult Social Care legislation.
* Completes care and support planning with children, young people, and adults and their families to ensure the outcomes identified at assessment are met through the provision of support, equipment, and adaptations.
* Undertakes Mental Capacity assessments and Best Interest decisions where appropriate.
* Actively engages with, assists, and provides advice to carers, conducting carer's assessments to enable them to sustain their caring role.
* Direct work with children/young people who are going through the safeguarding or court process.
2. Ensuring Effective Safeguarding and Risk Management
* Identifies and takes appropriate safeguarding action (as determined by legislation and current HCC policy).
* Supports lead officers in the safeguarding process.
* Effectively assesses and manages risk.
* Supports safeguarding investigations under the direction of a manager, social worker, occupational therapist, or nurse.
3. Partnership Working
* Develops effective professional networks with partner agencies (e.g., schools, colleges, youth connexions, health, housing, and leisure) to best support the child, young person, or young adult in reaching their full potential, enabling their independence, and ensuring participation in their local community.
* Develops, nurtures, and sustains links with settings in your locality area.
4. Promote Independence & Autonomy in Preparation for Adulthood
* Provides support where a person is constrained by social or family circumstances and assists in achieving a reasonable degree of independence and autonomy.
* Uses a person-centred approach, developing creative and personalized solutions to assist children and young adults in managing their lives independently.
* Promotes independence and community wellbeing, choice, and control within a personalization framework utilizing universal services and flexibility via the use of self-directed support.
5. Demonstrate HCC Values and Behaviours and Professional Standards
* Carries out duties in a timely and responsive manner, in line with HCC's Values and Behaviours framework.
* Maximizes efficiencies in care planning through consideration of charging systems and other funding streams.
* Keeps and maintains accurate, up-to-date service user records, in line with professional requirements and departmental recording methods.
The duties and responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present. The post holder is expected to accept any reasonable alterations that may from time to time be necessary.
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential Criteria
* Clear knowledge and understanding of social and/or health care within the community.
Desirable Criteria
* A qualification in care work or relevant other qualification.
* Knowledge of human rights legislation and how it protects the rights of adults.
* The integration agenda - Working as part of a multi-disciplinary/multi-agency team.
* The personalisation agenda and applying creative problem solving to maximize independence.
Relevant Demonstrable Experience
Essential Criteria
* Experience of working within a paid or voluntary care setting with children and/or young people.
* Experience in risk management and positive risk-taking.
Desirable Criteria
* Experience working with vulnerable adults and/or children within a health and social care setting.
* Involvement in multi-agency work.
Skills and Abilities
Essential Criteria
* Good interpersonal and communication skills.
* Empathetic and caring when working with people.
* Good written and IT skills.
Desirable Criteria
* Ability to work within a scheme of delegated authority.
* Experience working with complex situations and resolving people's complaints.
* Ability to assess and record eligible and non-eligible needs, drawing on evidence-based practice to inform responses.
Behaviours
Essential Criteria
* Works within HCC Values and Behaviours Framework.
* Motivated, reliable, dependable, self-confident with the ability to drive.
MUST BE A CAR DRIVER WITH ACCESS TO OWN VEHICLE
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