Social Care Assessor - Wrexham

Social Care Assessor
Wrexham
£18.97 per hour

Pertemps are recruiting for a Social Care Assessor to work alongside Social Workers in providing information, advice, and assistance as the first point of contact for children in Wrexham.

The role will include undertaking ‘What Matters” conversations with parents, carers, and children, liaising with partner agencies across the statutory, public and voluntary sector, assessing care and support needs, and working with families to assist with improving their wellbeing.

Duties:

• To carry a caseload of non-complex cases or to assist with complex cases, assessing needs, contributing to the formulation of plans, implementing and contributing to reviews of those plans, and carrying out such tasks as may be necessary to implement the plans.
• To assist professionals on other cases by carrying out a range of practical and other tasks.
• To form, develop and maintain professional relationships with service users and their families/carers.
• To visit and work directly with service users in order to consult them on their preferences, establish their needs and to implement designated actions from care plans.
• To keep up to date records of work undertaken, deal with correspondence and prepare written and verbal reports as required.  To use appropriate Departmental systems, including IT, for progressing work.
• To represent the team on behalf of selected service users at a variety of review meetings.
• The Social Services and Well Being (Wales) Act 2014 provides the legislative framework regarding the provision of information, advice and assistance and identifying needs for care and support of children. The Children’s Single Point of Access are pivotal in ensuring children and families are supported to achieve their wellbeing outcomes through outcome focused conversations, providing information, advice, and assistance; or identifying whether further assessments of care and support needs are required.

 
 Please contact Joe on joe.thomas-samuels@pprsocialcare.co.uk for more information.
 
We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this isn’t the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO, BIA, MASH, LAC Children’s Social Work, Adult Social Work, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager