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Job Introduction

The starting salary for this role is £26,569 per annum based on a 36-hour working week.

We are excited to be hiring a full-time permanent Social Care Assistant to join our fantastic team, at the Royal Surrey County Hospital.

Additionally, we have 2 full time and 1 part time vacancies in our Guildford Locality Team.

What we can offer you:

• Annual Leave – with the opportunity to buy up to 10 days additional annual leave
• Agile working opportunities – your work/life balance is important to us!
• Training and Development – Superb opportunities for development including a Readiness Programme, Preceptorship, Structured Induction Programme
• You will receive excellent support and supervision combined with comprehensive training/induction
• A supportive, 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Car lease scheme and many more discounted life-style benefits, please visit MyBenefits for Surrey County Council staff for more information
• We support flexible working as far as possible, but you may have to attend multi-disciplinary ward round meetings in the mornings so may depend on ward allocations
• An added bonus includes working in a rural location for the community hospitals as well as free parking and paid for parking within Royal Surrey County Hospital

Royal Surrey County Hospital Team

No two days will be the same! You will work mainly based within Royal Surrey Hospital but also potentially between all of the hospitals. You will receive excellent support and supervision combined with comprehensive training/induction. You will work closely with the multi-disciplinary team to establish discharge plans and follow up on patients following discharge to reassess their ongoing needs, such as a variety of physical and cognitive impairments. You will also be involved in supporting safeguarding investigations and attending safeguarding meetings with the support of qualified practitioners. Social Care Assistants will have an experience of working with people with social care needs. You will need to have competent basic IT skills and be able and willing to learn to use a variety of software systems.

Guildford Locality Team

In this role you will have frequent direct contact with the public on the phone as well as visiting them in their own home or care setting. Your role will be to assist qualified practitioners with a variety of tasks, including assessing people’s needs and carrying out regular reviews.

You will frequently be the first point of contact between the public and the service, gathering initial information and identifying the need for further assessment, as well as signposting people to other services.

You will work in partnership with individuals, their carers, professional staff in other agencies, service providers and Support Brokers in order to support vulnerable adults and their families to identify and arrange services that meet their needs and promote independence, choice and control. Social Care Assistants will hold a caseload of individuals and carers who will generally have a support plan in place that requires routine monitoring.

In your application we would love to hear about:

• How you enjoy working with people and your experience of working with people with social care needs as part of paid or voluntary work
• Your IT skills and ability and willingness to learn to use a variety of software systems
• Your ability to communicate in a clear, fluent, concise and jargon-free way and in a courteous, calm and professional manner

You will be working in a team of motivated, dedicated and friendly colleagues and have an added bonus of working closely alongside a wider multi-disciplinary team in a thriving hospital environment.

The work involves travelling within South-West Surrey and also to other parts of the county. We therefore ask that you are a car driver and have access to a car.

At Surrey, our values and behaviours are just as important as our skills and abilities. They shape who we are as an organisation. Find out more about the values we follow.

For more information please find the full job description below and refer to this before submitting your application. We also invite you to read our Life at Surrey handbook to see insights of the culture at Surrey and how as a valued employee, you can help shape our Council.

Additional Information

This job advert closes at 23:59 on 27/07/2023 with interviews to follow.

An enhanced DBS ‘Disclosure and Barring Service’ check for regulated activity (formerly known as CRB) and the Children’s and Adults’ Barred List checks will be required for this role.

Contact Details

For an informal discussion please contact Robert Pryde-Jarman or Lucy Newman-Smith (Assistant Team Managers) on 01483 464008 or for the Guildford Locality vacancies please contact Faith Tsuro on 07989 152878.

We look forward to receiving your application, which should include a separate personal statement tailored for this role.

Please click on the apply online button below to submit.

Benefits

From flexible working to job sharing (where possible) we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance. A laptop and mobile will be supplied if applicable to your role. You will benefit from 26 days annual leave, rising to 28 days after 2 years' service, a generous local government salary related pension, as well as the option to join our car lease scheme. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit MyBenefits for Surrey County Council staff.

Our Commitment

Surrey County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. A guaranteed interview will be offered to all disabled applications where:

• The candidate has evidenced the minimum criteria for the role through their application
• The candidate has chosen to share that they have a disability on the application form

Our application form and onboarding process will provide an opportunity to request any reasonable adjustments for the interview and/or the role.

We want to be an inclusive and diverse employer reflecting the community we serve and particularly welcome applications from all underrepresented groups.