Community Social Care Officer

Role Responsibility

Role Responsibility: Adult Social Care — Community Social Care Officer

Several permanent  full time opportunities are available across North Kent (Dartford, Gravesham, Swanley, Sittingbourne and the Isle of Sheppey). Please specify your preference of working area within the Reason for Applying section in your application.

We operate in a hybrid model of office-base and working from home to meet the needs of the service. We are recruiting Community Social Care Officers with a range of different skills and experience.

About Us  

This is an exciting opportunity to join one of our Community Teams as we enhance our locality working practice and put the person and good practice at the heart of what we do.  

We work with adults with a range of care and support needs placing individuals at the centre of their support. You will build relationships with people, their carers and wider partners, undertake Care Act and Mental Capacity Act assessments and help keep people safe though Adult Safeguarding procedures.

Our social care interventions are structured around the three pillars of excellent practice, exceptional innovation, and meaningful measures. Therefore, our work is orientated around building relationships with the individual their families and carers. We engage with communities early on to help people feel empowered to find trusted help and support locally from a range of sources.

About You 

You will possess: 

• Experience of working within a multi-agency environment. 
• Knowledge of relevant social care legislation  
• Financial skills and knowledge 
• Good computer literacy and report writing skills. 
• Excellent interpersonal skills and mediation and negotiation skills. 
• Ability to work in partnership with people and our wider partners to help identify services or resources in the community that can support well-being. 

We are looking for future employees who have a positive, forward-thinking attitude who can work collaboratively as part of a team.   

About Us

In return, we offer an attractive benefits package and a commitment to ensuring that you achieve a healthy work life balance and opportunities for flexible working arrangements that meet business need. Every member of our team will have access to a thorough induction, online and face to face training, peer to peer support and regular supervision.

You will have excellent opportunities for professional development with access to our Kent Care Academy and progression routes that include opportunities to become a registered social worker though our apprenticeship scheme (subject to qualification), and our newly launched practice framework. 

This role is subject to holding a Full UK Driving Licence – The Council is committed to making reasonable adjustments so whilst this job requires the jobholder to drive your application will still be considered if you are unable to drive due to a disability.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Contact Details

For more information, please contact richard.munn@kent.gov.uk or annah.mapani@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.