The Role

An opportunity has arisen for a Community Assessment Officer within the Intermediate Tier Services. This service covers Admission Avoidance and Intermediate Care and Discharge to Assess bed based units.

This post offers an opportunity to contribute to the ongoing development of innovative ways of working across health and social care in order to improve the experience of service users and carers and to promote wellbeing and independence.

The ability to develop, maintain and improve relationships with service users and carers is essential in this role as well as the attributes required to participate in inter-disciplinary team working. 

The post is subject to enhanced clearance from the Disclosure and Barring Service

About You

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated individual who has a passion for working with adults, understanding their needs, aspirations and supporting them to enhance their quality of life and promote independence. The post holder will be required to work flexibily Monday to Friday.

About Us

The Community Assessment Officer will work within one of the designated services and undertake assessments/reviews of need under the Care Act 2014, assist with support planning as necessary and also link people in to universal and voluntary services. They will also assist colleagues within other areas of the services as necessary.

For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see the Work with Us page on greater.jobs

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For further details of the role and how we use your data, please see:

Job Description & Person Specification.doc

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced DBS with check of relevant barred list is therefore required for this post.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.

This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits.