Social Care Coordinator - Independent Living Technology Enabled Care Project

at  Reading Borough Council

Job description
Full time 37 Hours per week - Fixed Term until 31st March 2025
Secondment opportunities are available. Please discuss with your manager before applying.
We are looking to appoint a Social Care Coordinator to join our Independent Living Technology Enabled Care (TEC) Project. The TEC Project is a project (funded through the Adult Social Care Technology Fund that is exploring whether the use of Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and other disruptive technologies can support elderly and vulnerable people in Reading to live more independently.
We seek the best talent from the widest pool of people as diversity and inclusion is the key to our success. Reading Borough Council is a Disability Confident Employer and is committed to the recruitment and continued employment of people with disabilities.
We support hybrid working, it’s important to us that working arrangements are designed to enable our employees to excel and within this role you’ll have the opportunity to work in a way that suits your lifestyle.

You will work with new innovative technology to support the users to live independently, you will have a broad caseload, focused on the users using the project sensor-based technology.
Last summer Reading Council applied to the Department of Health for Digitising Social Care Funding and became one of only four organisations in the UK to receive a share of the technology funding. We are now recruiting to expand the project and looking for a Social Care Co-ordinator to work alongside our Project Manager, a Senior Occupational Therapist (OT), another Social Care Co-ordinator and a Business Systems Analyst.
We are looking for someone with experience of working with TEC and of undertaking social care assessments in the community. You will bring with you knowledge and experience of Adult Social Care as well as a customer-focused drive to ensuring the residents of Reading have the right services at the right time, catering to their needs.
The project is being run as part of the wider research project, the results of which will be fed up and shared at a national level to support ASC across the country, meaning the work you do will be felt across the country.
Social care coordinators, work with individuals to undertake assessments, reviews and care and support planning in line with Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, and where appropriate Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended 2007) duties.
The role entails taking a strength-based approach supporting people to use preventative technology, and to build resilience and achieve outcomes that are important to them, involving the person and supporting them to have choice and control. This will include visits to residences, explaining the system and installing it, training will be provided on this.
We are looking for candidates who have experience of working with people with care and support needs or have transferable skills and experience.

You must be able to demonstrate:

• excellent communication skills
• ability to gather and analyse information
• ability to identify and prioritise risks
• ability to identify and prioritise safeguarding issues
• excellent organisational skills and flexibility
• excellent IT skills
• excellent teamwork skills

When applying for this post, please ensure that your application explains, with examples, how you meet the person specification in the Job Description as this is the shortlisting criteria.
Our vision is to ensure that Reading realises its potential as a great place to live, work and play, and that everyone shares the benefits of this success.
As well as the colleagues that you work closely with every day, you’ll also be part of Team Reading, playing your personal part in making Reading a successful and vibrant place.
Our values and behaviours guide how we will achieve this:
Work Together as one team - work collaboratively, with each other and with our partners, and demonstrate the Team Reading values in everything we do
Drive Efficiency - show initiative, be adaptable to change and put forward ideas to help improve delivery and efficiency. Take responsibility for our own learning and development and for reaching our potential
Be Ambitious - be demanding of our own performance – striving to be even better – and be prepared to engage with and challenge leaders in a constructive and positive way
Make a Difference to Reading - maintain the highest levels of customer service and be flexible and willing to provide the services needed at the time they are needed