Overview
Using your understanding of the aspirations of the people who use our services and their carers, your focus will be on completing assessments, making recommendations that enable citizens to maximise their quality of life. Arranging the appropriate service provision, your role will include working with other agencies to reduce barriers to social inclusion and achieve solutions that meet individual citizens' needs. You will explore provision of simple and specialist equipment, minor adaptations and the provision of major adaptation, along with supporting other aspects under the Adult Social Care Occupational Therapy team portfolio. This post would suit someone with hands‑on experience in manual handling of people.
Benefits
* Family friendly policies.
* A range of benefits, including membership of the West Midlands Pension Fund, discounted gym membership, Blue Light Card and a confidential employee assistance programme.
* 29 days’ annual leave increasing with length of service, plus the option to purchase additional days.
* Great pension scheme, well‑being support, annual travel passes and discounts at a number of city centre establishments.
Qualifications
* Experience of working with elderly or disabled citizens, either in a professional or voluntary capacity.
* Understanding of equal opportunity and diversity issues.
* Experience of report writing and strong verbal and written communication skills.
* Readiness to work flexibly across different projects across the city.
* Excellent work ethic, working continually at a fast pace.
* Ability to engage in difficult and sensitive conversations with citizens and their representatives.
* Team work and ability to work autonomously. Confidence in engaging all spoken aspects of the role using the English language as required by Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016.
We are a team that strives for innovation and we are not afraid to say we want to be the best in adult social care, which means better outcomes for the individuals we're all here for. We have a strong and supportive team that works together to achieve the best for our citizens. The diversity of our communities and scale of our service means a greater variety of social care challenges and more scope for development.
Birmingham is a vibrant, courageous, resilient city, where great things are happening. And that goes far beyond hosting the 2022 Commonwealth Games. It's about the renewed investment, ongoing regeneration and the fierce ambition we have for the future of our brilliant city and citizens.
Council Priorities
* A Prosperous Birmingham: through a focus on inclusive economic growth, tackling unemployment, attracting inward investment, and maximising the benefits of the Commonwealth Games.
* An Inclusive Birmingham: through a focus on tackling poverty and inequality, empowering citizens, promoting diversity and civic pride, and supporting and enabling all children and young people to thrive.
* A Safe Birmingham: through a focus on making the city safer, safeguarding vulnerable citizens, increasing affordable housing, and tackling homelessness.
* A Healthy Birmingham: through a focus on tackling health inequalities, encouraging physical activity and healthy living, supporting mental health, and improving outcomes for adults with disabilities and older people.
* A Green Birmingham: through a focus on street cleanliness, improving air quality, continuing the route to net zero, and becoming a city of nature.
We will support you to develop and thrive in your role, building a pathway for long‑term success, with lots of development opportunities, such as apprenticeships.
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