Independence Advisor
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Are you compassionate, driven and ready to make a real impact in people’s lives? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment where every day brings new challenges and opportunities to create change? If so, we want you to join in our team! We are currently looking for an Independence advisor to work 37 hours per week across Monday to Friday in our Adult Social Care Connect Team.
About the team:
Adult Social Care Connect is the front door team for Southampton City Council Adult Social Care referrals alongside our corporate Service Centre. Its primary focus is new referrals into Adult Social Care. The team are responsible for completing Care Act assessments and support plans for adults in the community under the Care Act 2014. There is a strong focus on early intervention and prevention and providing clear pathways to our short-term and long-term care services. The team also includes operational safeguarding and completes other statutory duties for example working under section 42 of the Care Act fulfilling statutory duties around safeguarding and carrying out work within the remits of the Mental Capacity Act assessing the capacity of the individuals we work with and supporting decision making within this.
You will join an energetic and supportive team striving to support people in Southampton live active, safe and independent lives.
About the role:
The independence advisor role includes:
- Undertaking assessments under the Care Act 2014 and Mental Capacity Act 2005. Working with adults and their carers who require adult social care intervention, having conversations about what matters most to them to complete strengths-based assessments promoting independence, health, and wellbeing.
- Provide advice, information, and guidance on support and services available in the community, other agencies and from adult social care to enable people to maintain independence, health, and wellbeing.
About Southampton City Council
We share the #SocialCareFuture Vision, to enable us all ‘to live in place we call home, with the people and things we love, in communities where we look out for each other, doing the things that matter to us.
We have recently changed the way we work to strengthen our approach and ensure that we work with our partners to keep residents healthy, independent, connected and contributing to society. We want to ensure that our community and people who access our services feel safe, supported and connected enabling each person to live independently with opportunities to use technology enabled care and self-serve wherever possible.
This truly is an opportunity to bring your innovation, creativity and challenge to making positive changes that result in better quality of life for people.
What we offer:
Salary: The salary band for this role is £37,280 - £40,778. The starting salary is £37,280 with annual progression through the salary bands.
Here at SCC we have a range of different benefits, a few examples can be found below.
- Excellent local government pension with 16.8% employer contribution
- Death in service benefit of x3 salary, and optional salary sacrifice shared cost AVC (additional voluntary contribution)
- Generous holiday 25–31 days, based on role and service
- Flexible working options (role-dependent)
- Family-friendly policies - Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, Shared/Unpaid Parental Leave, Time off for Dependents