Job title: Wellbeing Worker
Salary: C1 £28,598 - £31,022
Hours: 37
Contract: Permanent
As a Wellbeing Worker you’ll thrive on supporting adults with Care and Support needs in a supportive team.
Leeds City Council is one of the largest employers in the region with over 14,000 employees. We seek to recruit and develop talented individuals who embody our council values and ambitions.
Leeds Shared Lives is part of Leeds City Councils Care Delivery Services, Adults and Health. We are an in-house provider service offering Respite (Short Breaks) and Day Support to adults with Care and Support needs across the city.
Our service is an alternative to respite in a care home, or Day Opportunities. Individuals requiring care and support, are matched with a Shared Lives Carer who will offer Respite or Day Support from their own homes.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a well-established and respected team within Adult Social Care.
The service is a registered provider with the Care Quality Commission.
To support and promote teamwork, you will be expected to commit to hybrid working. The Team is located at Tribeca House, Roundhay Road, Leeds 7 and our core business hours are 8:30-5 (Mon-Thurs) and 8:30-4:30 (Fridays)
About you
As a Wellbeing Worker, you will bring to the role:
- Good knowledge, experience and a passion towork with vulnerable adults.
- Effective communication skills, both written and verbal, as well as possessing numeracy abilities and being a team player.
- An understanding of relevant legislation such as Care Act 2014 and the Mental Capacity Act (2005) some knowledge of Health and Safety Legislation, as well as an understanding of the requirements of the Health and Social Care Act (2012), its regulations and other relevant legislation and guidance.
- You will be motivated and a critical thinker with the ability to assess the needs of your customers, act as an advocate where appropriate and ensure appropriate risk management and safeguarding
- Strength based approaches and a strong desire to make a difference
About the role
You will be required to carry a caseload of Shared Lives Carers and Customers with the supervision and guidance of the Registered Manager or Social Worker where required, to support the delivery of a Shared Lives Service across the city.
You will have a key role to undertake strength-based assessments and create outcome-focused support plans including, the review of individual plans relating to the assessed needs of service users, their families, and carers.
- You will be expected to contribute to and undertake the screening of new referrals for service users and prospective carers and undertake the matching process of service users with carers.
- You will be responsible for monitoring placements, liaising with Social Workers, Care managers and other professionals where relevant, to ensure best practice and a safe and effective service.
- You will be monitoring the role of Shared Lives Carers on a regular basis, supporting their development to ensure quality in service is maintained.
Successful candidates will also be required to contribute to service development and develop their own performance and skills through CPD (Continuous Professional Development).
What we offer you
We take pride in offering the best employee experience, with benefits including:
- a competitive salary and annual leave entitlement plus statutory holidays
- membership of the West Yorkshire Pension Fund with generous employer contributions
- flexible and hybrid working arrangements subject to service requirements
- a clear career pathway and continuing professional development opportunities
- a range of staff benefits to help you boost your wellbeing and make your money go further
How to apply
Apply for this job online. Please complete the online application form
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If you have any queries or would like an informal chat about the role please contact Indi Matharu, Principal Service Manager 0113 3785410 or email Inderjit.Matharu@leeds.gov.uk
A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check against the Children’s or Adults’ barred list as applicable will be carried out on preferred candidates. Read our recruitment of ex-offenders policy.
We welcome applications from everyone and actively seek a diverse range of applicants from all backgrounds and cultures. We particularly encourage applications from, but not limited to, women, carers, veterans as well as LGBT+, ethnically diverse, disabled and care experienced people.
This role is based in the UK. Home Office guidance states that candidates must evidence their right to work in the UK prior to commencing employment, either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa.
If you do not have the right to work in the UK, you must consider your own eligibility for sponsorship for a particular role through the Skilled Worker visaroute before applying. To be eligible for sponsorship you'll usually need to be paid the standard salary rate of at least £41,700 per year or meet one of the other eligibility criteria. Ensure you are eligible before applying.
Job Description
Job purpose
Under the direction of a Registered Manager and with support and direction from Social Worker colleagues, provide a high quality and comprehensive assessment and support planning service, advising adults with care and support needs. In doing so, promote the principles of wellbeing as described within the Care Act 2014.
The post holder must at all times carry out responsibilities within the City Council’s Policies and Procedures, in particular the Council Policies on Equality and Diversity, Health and Safety.
Responsibilities
- Responsible under the Care Act 2014 for working with a range of service users to develop services and plans that meet their assessed needs.
- To work within a community or hospital based team, providing person centred support in line with the Care Act 2014
- Contribute to the promotion of improved outcomes for individuals, families, carers and groups from diverse and disadvantaged communities
- To undertake and contribute to the review of individual plans relating to the assessed needs of service users, their families and carers.
- Maintain and update case notes and other electronic records, write reports as required within the limits of data protection
- With supervision, to carry a caseload of appropriately allocated cases and undertake assessments of service user needs using a person centred outcomes focused approach.
- Where required, prepare person centred support plans in conjunction with service user, their families and carers.
- Where safeguarding issues arise on the Wellbeing and Recovery Worker caseload, to escalate them to the manager and to assist the Social Worker to investigate and manage risks.
- To ensure that any concerns about practice and procedures are raised with the team manager
- Organise work activities on their caseload and prioritise tasks as required.
- With support to undertake office duty as required.
- To provide general advice about the Council’s charging policy
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with other professionals within the directorate and partner agencies to ensure an integrated approach to the support planning and safeguarding of service users.
- Be responsible for understanding and applying all appropriate practice standards, policies and procedures.
- Responsible for assessing and working with the client to devise a support package that reflects the assessed needs of the service user, with support from a Social Worker where required.
- Be responsive to feedback and self-reflection around practise.
- Appropriately participate in meetings and relevant forums.
- Work closely with line manager using supervision and appraisal to develop own performance and skills through CPD.
- To use supervision and appraisal to continually develop professionally.
- To comply with the requirements of all Leeds City Council and Directorate policies and procedures and staff instructions, including responsibilities under Health and Safety policy and procedures.
- To actively promote Equality and Diversity throughout the service.
- To undertake any other duties and responsibilities appropriate to the grade and purpose of the job as may be determined by the directorate
- The duties outlined are not meant as an exhaustive list and will also comprise any other duties within the spirit of the post commensurate with the job evaluation outcome for this post.
Qualifications QCF Level 4 diploma in Adult Care would be desirable.
Essential requirements It is essential that the candidate should be able to demonstrate the following criteria for the post. Candidates will only be shortlisted for interview if they can demonstrate that they meet all the essential requirements.
- Ability to effectively plan and engage service users in developing their support plan using a range of agencies.
- Ability to plan, prioritise and time manage own workload.
- Ability to communicate well and with a range of partners and service users, carers and colleagues
Ability to engage individuals, families, carers and workers from other agencies
Ability to devise and implement service and support plans - Ability to assess the needs of and work with individuals and groups for people using a person centred and strength based approach
- Ability to maintain accurate service user records using IT and follow policy and procedure
- Ability to exercise individual judgement, assess risk and consult where and when appropriate.
- Report writing and Communications Skills
- Knowledge of relevant legislation appropriate to the needs of service users from a wide range of backgrounds
- Awareness of the broad range of factors that impact on service users and families e.g. drugs, alcohol or domestic violence
- Understanding of the roles and responsibilities of statutory and voluntary agencies.
- Basic awareness of IT systems including Microsoft Office, Internet and Email
- Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of confidentiality.
- Demonstrate an awareness of needs and safeguarding issues associated with vulnerable people.
- Demonstrate an understanding of Equality, diversity, and Inclusion.
- Experience of working with a range of people who may have care and support needs
- Demonstrated creativity in tackling and solving problems
- Experience of advocacy and user involvement.
- Experience of using initiative and a commitment to developing services
- Experience of producing written records and reports to a high standard for a variety of purposes with language suited to function
Application of information gathering skills to make and contribute to assessments - Knowledge and experience of using supervision effectively
Essential Behavioural & other Characteristics
- Understand and embraceLeeds City Council Values and Behaviours and codes of conduct.
- Committed to continuous improvement in all areas and work towards delivering the Best City Ambition of Health & Wellbeing, Inclusive Growth and Zero Carbon
- Able to understand and observe Leeds City Council equality and diversity policies.
- Carry out all duties having regard to an employee’s responsibility under Health and Safety Policies.
- Willingness to actively participate in training and development activities.
- Flexible and adaptable to change to assist other services as required commensurate to grade.
- Participate in appraisal, training, and development activities.
- Be aware of and comply with Leeds City Council policies and procedures.
- Be aware of and support difference and ensure equality for all working in an anti-discriminatory manner, upholding, equality & diversity policies of Leeds City Council.
- Recognise and appropriately challenge any incidents of racism, bullying, harassment, victimisation, and any form of abuse, reporting any concerns to the appropriate person.
- The Council has adopted a flexibility protocol and the role will be expected to work within these parameters.
Desirable requirements It is desirable that the candidate should be able to demonstrate the following criteria for the post. Candidates are not required to meet all the desirable requirements however these may be used to distinguish between candidates.
- Possession of a full current driving licence
- Understanding of current, trends, policies, legislation, and regulatory bodies in relation to vulnerable people within a social care setting
- Demonstrate an understanding of the needs and wishes of individuals, families, and carers as appropriate.
- Awareness of the use of advocacy and user involvement in a Social Care setting
