Job Description
Job Title: Full Time CASEWORKER(35 hrs wk.)
(To support Core Caseworker Services)
Responsible to:Chief Officer & Senior Tech Officer
Salary:£27,375 (per annum) rising to (£30,240.25) once probationary period is finished.
JOB PURPOSE
To provide a comprehensive and holistic service to older people and people with disabilities, offering advice, assistance and support regarding improvements, repairs and adaptations to their properties, benefit advice, information about the availability of funding, grants and loans, and a signposting and referral service to facilities and services available locally.
SPECIFIC DUTIES
Service Delivery and Workload Management
1. To visit elderly clients in their homes and carry out a Healthy Home Assessment to identify their housing and social care needs to enable them to continue living safely and independently for as long as possible.
2. To work closely with statutory and non-statutory partners, signposting to other agencies to help support a clients independence and maintain them in their own home where appropriate.
3. To carry out benefit checks and advise individual clients/carers of the financial assistance available via welfare benefits, loans, home improvement grants, home energy efficiency grants and charitable sources etc. to help them obtain the help to which they are entit...