Adults Social Care Assistants

This role has a starting salary of £26,080 per annum based on a 36 hours per week (pro-rata for part-time staff).

We are looking to recruit Social Care Assistants within our Adult Social Care teams in North West Surrey.

We currently have vacancies in the following teams:

• 1 x permanent position with the Runnymede Locality team based at Runnymede Civic Centre, Station Road, Addlestone, KT15 2AH.
• 3 x permanent positions with the Spelthorne Locality Team based at Ashford Office, Stanwell Road, Ashford, TW15 3DU.

These are full-time positions, but part-time applications will be considered.

As part of our greener future strategies and our commitment to creating a healthy work-life balance, we welcome a conversation with you regarding our remote working options. Remote working to us is a balance of spending time in our communities, our offices and working from home or wherever works best.

Applicants must hold a valid Driving Licence to drive in the UK and have access to a car.

Please note: at the time of advertising these are our current vacancies, however this is subject to change with potential opportunities arising in Woking and Surrey Heath.

Our vision is ‘Working with all our partners to make a difference to the lives of people, through trusted, personalised and universal social care support, so people have choice and control, and can maximise their wellbeing and independence in their local community’.

Promoting independence, choice and control is at the heart of this position. This is an exciting opportunity to work with people to maximise their potential for independence.

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. Applicants will enjoy working with people and have experience of direct work with the public as part of paid or voluntary work, although they may have limited or no experience of visiting people in their own homes or care settings.

You will have the opportunity to work on the new ‘Discharge to Assess’ model to support vulnerable residents leaving hospital settings in a timely and safe manner. This exciting work will include working within hospitals as part of an integrated workforce of Health and Social Care practitioners with the aim of supporting our residents in their recovery in the community.

The Discharge to Assess model also provides continuity of care whereby you as a practitioner will see the resident’s progress from an acute hospital to the community, and provide Adult Social Care support to enable and empower residents to lead their fullest life whilst promoting their independence and decision-making.

You will need to have competent basic IT skills and be able and willing to learn to use a variety of software systems. The work involves travelling within Surrey; therefore, you will need to be 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.

The job advert closes at 23:59 on 11/12/2022.

Interviews will take place on 20/12/2022.

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: 

• Jo Newton on 01932 794800 for Runnymede Locality Team.
• Jasmine Bessey on 01932 794800 for Spelthorne Locality Team.

We look forward to receiving your application, please click on the apply online button below to submit.

Please select your preference in team when submitting your application.

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 committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We want to be an inclusive and diverse employer of first choice reflecting the community we serve and particularly welcome applications from all under represented groups.