Wellbeing and Independence Practitioner
Permanent, Full Time
£31,931 to £36,423 per annum
Location: Chelmsford
Working Style:
Closing Date: 10th December 2025
The Team
The ASC Centralised Safeguarding Team (CST) is a central hub for safeguarding referrals into ECC. The team screens and triages incoming ASC safeguarding referrals to determine whether the statutory threshold for further safeguarding enquiry is met. CST works with ASC community and specialist teams to help safeguard adults at risk of abuse or harm. For this vacancy, it is desirable to have a minimum of 6 months experience working within Safeguarding.
The Opportunity
Through effective practice, ECC Adult Social Care (ASC) is moving from a focus on long-term care support to a model with four key principles: prevention, early intervention, enablement and safeguarding. Our goal is to enable people, their families, and carers to access information and tools to help live healthily, safely and independently. For ASC, this is also an opportunity to respond pro-actively to growing service demand in a sustainable way.
Working with people with disabilities and other conditions, you will undertake statutory responsibilities and focus on prevention, strengths, reducing risks and meeting needs. You will provide advice and signposting, working alongside people and their networks to support them to remain safe while maximising their independence and wellbeing.
In collaboration with colleagues and practitioners across emergency services, the police, health and the voluntary sector, you will support effective collaboration, ensuring the best outcomes for those experiencing risk or harm.
Accountabilities
1. Under the guidance of a supervisor, carry out statutory responsibilities in triaging safeguarding adult concerns
2. Manage a caseload effectively, meet timescales set for interventions, maintain appropriate recording systems and support information reporting.
3. Appropriately identify eligibility and statutory compliance in line with current legislative policy and advise people, their networks and carers of their rights, the options available to them and how they can live meaningful and independent lives.
4. Work in partnership with internal and external partners including health, emergency services, and private and voluntary sectors organisations, to promote the best outcome for those experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, harm or abuse.
5. Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within ASC’s performance management framework.
Skills, Knowledge and Experience
6. Educated to NVQ level 4 in Care or Health or equivalent knowledge by experience.
7. Evidence of continuing professional development aligned to any relevant professional competency/capability frameworks or knowledge and skills statements.
8. Experience of working with people with age-related conditions, disabilities and other vulnerabilities
9. Excellent communication skills with the ability collaborate with others to seek solutions to challenging and complex situations.
10. A knowledge of person-centred planning to support the development of networks for people via the creation of support plans to maximise independence and wellbeing.
11. Good self-organisation skills.
Please note that the job role requires you to be mobile throughout an operational area. Therefore, the post holder will need to have a driving licence and access to a vehicle, or the ability to meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means.
You will be required to attend the office in Chelmsford, Essex every Wednesday with the remaining time spent working remotely.
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Please note that the job role requires you to be mobile throughout an operational area. Therefore, the post holder will need to have a driving licence and access to a vehicle, or the ability to meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means.
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