Job Title: Community Care Specialist
This role involves working with adults who require low to medium support.
The job requires providing assessment, intervention and input into person centred program planning.
Duties and Responsibilities:
* Empower service users to advocate for themselves.
* Advocate on behalf of service users.
* Support families and next of kin of service users.
* Promote community participation and inclusion for service users.
* Assist in goal setting and achievements for service users.
* Liaise with multi-disciplinary staff and agencies to meet individual needs.
This role will be a mix of residential and day centre work, with some outreach to adults living at home.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
* A recognised qualification as a social worker and registration with CORU.
* Post graduate experience required, preferably in an intellectual disability service or multi-disciplinary team.
Benefits:
This role offers a 1-year fixed term contract position.
Other Requirements:
* A car and full drivers licence is beneficial due to travel involved.