Social Care Responder - Internal

We adopt a ‘name blind’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made - please note that this also includes any CV uploaded. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.
Kirklees
Adults & Health
Adults Social Care Operation
37
5
Civic Centre 3, Huddersfield Town Centre
Permanent, Secondment
Grade 7

£27,334 - £28,770

+ 7% enhancement for working over a 7 day rota

To apply for this job you must be an employee of Kirklees Council for the duration of the recruitment process – up to and including the start date - and have successfully completed your probationary period. Please note that if you work for an Academy you are not an employee of the Council.

The Role:

We have 3 permanent and 2 secondments roles available

Social Care is at the heart of our communities, providing care and support for vulnerable adults at various stages of their lives and for a variety of reasons. It is challenging and demanding work, yet ultimately rewarding as you can directly make a difference to the quality of a persons’ life and their day-to-day experiences.

Kirklees is one of the areas selected as an accelerator site for developing the Urgent Community response (UCR) project. To reflect national guidance, this requires the Council to have an urgent community social care response which will provide additional rapid response capacity for the Kirklees health and care system to individuals (over the age of 18) who need short term input to recover from an ‘acute episode’ within the community, therefore avoiding a hospital admission or where input for a short-term intervention could reduce the length of their hospital stay.

The role of Social Care Responder (SCR) will:

  • Offer delivery of a community and hospital assessment function with a 2-hour response to people in the community who need an identified package of support in the short term to manage a crisis or where support has not been available or assessed for.
  • Ensure that people avoid unnecessary admission into hospital, and that it enables timely discharges from hospital. SCR will see people where there is a social care need in a crisis, preventing hospital attendance, or to facilitate hospital discharge when a person has not been admitted and not resided for more than 48hrs.
  • Work on a rota which has been identified to provide operational delivery from 8am to 9pm across 7 days, 365 days of the year including bank holidays.

 

What Kirklees can offer:

  • Generous annual leave entitlement
  • Friendly and supportive team environment
  • Ongoing training and career development
  • Excellent pension scheme
  • A range of family friendly polices
  • Flexible working (not all roles)
  • We offer a wide range of well-being initiatives including a cycle to work scheme and discounted KAL membership

Shortlisting will take place 20/02/2023 

Interviews will take place 27/02/2023

Ruth Pickford is the manager for this role, please contact them on 01484 221000 for an informal discussion, or if you need any more information. 
This job is subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level, please refer to the Job Description/Profile.  A conviction may not exclude candidates from appointment but will be considered as part of the recruitment process.
We know there’s a wealth of talent among people who have a disability and we encourage applications from people with all differing abilities. So, if you need any support completing an application form, or any other format for the application or Job Description please contact the Recruitment Team for help by email: jobs@kirklees.gov.uk or phone: 01484 221000 and ask for ‘Recruitment’.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

23 February 2023, 8:15 AM

Important Information

This vacancy is closed to applications.