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04-05-2020 12:00 AM BST

?19,171 - Pro-Rata
Part Time , Hours per week - 22.75
Permanent

INTERVIEW DATE: Thursday 28/05/20

Are you passionate about providing care, and want to make a difference in your local community? We have opportunities to work in Homecare across the city, with regular hours and full training provided.
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The starting salary is ?19,171 rising to ?19,945 on first year anniversary, subject to satisfactory completion of a probation period. This is pro rata for part time hours.
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Hours will be worked between 4:00pm and 11:00pm according to a rota, and this will include weekend work.
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A valid driving licence and access to your own vehicle is essential for this role.
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Nottingham City Council Homecare provides two services; Social Care Reablement and JackDawe.
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Social Care Reablement is a specialist Homecare team that works across the city to provide support to citizens in their own homes. This is mostly acute, short term care for citizens who have recently been discharged from Hospital or another service. The focus of the work done by Social Care Reablement is to help citizens reintegrate back into their previous lives, whether that is socially, physically or emotionally.
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The JackDawe team provide a specialist service supporting citizens with a range of complex needs, to enable them to continue with everyday activities and tasks that are meaningful to them. This also encourages independence and can reduce the impact of behavioural and psychological symptoms associated many complex needs. JackDawe service also supports in practical ways, such as medication management, personal care and home management.
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Both teams encourage independence and choice for citizens, and control over the way their care is provided. This involves not only providing personalised care as directed in the citizen?s care plan, but also encouraging and enhancing the wellbeing of citizens through promotion of independence, early intervention, community support and friendships.
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Essential Requirements

Ability to assess social care and health needs and develop, implement, maintain and update Person Centred Care Plans;
Experience of, or ability to, provide support and guidance to colleagues and to be able to deal with emergency and difficult situations;
Knowledge and understanding of the rights, needs and feelings of vulnerable adults from diverse social and cultural backgrounds;
Ability to administer medication in line with departmental policies and procedures.

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In your personal statement, make sure you consider the following points:

Describe how you might have cared for or provided support for someone in the past (this can include paid, voluntary or support for relatives);
Describe what kind of person you are and what qualities you have, that make you good at care work.

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This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS check against the Children and Adults Barred List.
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For more information, please view the Job Description and Person Specification which are attached further down on this page. For informal enquiries please contact the Business Performance Team at [email protected]??
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You can also email us your telephone number to request a call back to discuss the role.
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Useful information for Applicants

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions information, which includes advice on pay, annual leave and hours of working, and our Total Rewards Package, which includes information on some of the great benefits when working for Nottingham City Council.
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This post is covered by the statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) (English Language Requirement for public sector workers) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English, as detailed in the job description and person specification, is an essential requirement for the role.
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Nottingham City Council are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and we are striving to have a reflective workforce of the citizens we serve. As a result of our commitment to this agenda, we anonymise all applications to remove the risk of unconscious bias. The application process will capture your personal details (including your name) and these details will only be made visible to recruiting managers once the shortlisting stage has been completed
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We particularly welcome applicants from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities and applicants that consider themselves disabled as these groups are currently under represented within our workforce.
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Nottingham City Council is open to conversations regarding flexible working options at the point of interview.
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If you have any technical issues completing your application form please contact [email protected]