Social Care Assessor Discharge hospital team

Role: SOCIAL CARE ASSESSOR DART Department: HOUSING AND COMMUNITY LIVINGConnect2Luton are excited to recruit a SOCIAL CARE ASSESSOR on behalf of Luton Borough Council within their HOUSING AND COMMUNITY LIVING department.Main purpose of position:Receive referrals, undertake assessments, undertake tasks involved in support planning and review.Promote personalised care pathways ensuring choice and control for all eligible individuals. You will be expected to work with others to influence and shape the local environment, to promote social inclusion and accessibility and ensure that identified needs are understood individually, by locality and fed into strategic commissioning.As a SOCIAL CARE ASSESSOR you will be responsible to:Complete assessments of need and risk in respect of service users and carers using Luton Borough Council eligibility criteria. This involves: Undertaking statutory duties under the NHS and Community Care Act 1990, and other legislation and guidance relating to service users and carers.Ensuring that service users and carers are involved in timely assessment and support planning and review processes. (This is may include duty work and screening and prioritising, providing advice and carrying out a range of assessments for: equipment, reablement and also longer term community care support. It could involve delivering, fitting and demonstrating equipment to assist daily living (although this is usually undertaken by Millbrook Health Care) including specialist ..... full job details .....