Community Support Worker (Mid Projects Team)

About the role

Community Support Worker (Mid Projects Team)

Fixed Term, Full Time

£25,395 to £32,131 per annum

Location: Chelmsford

Working Style: Community-based worker

Please note that this is a Fixed Term Contract / Secondment opportunity for up to 12 months.

Join us as a Community Support Worker - Essex County Council

The Opportunity

ECC Adult Social Care is making a transformational shift from a focus on long-term care support, to a model with four key principles: prevention, early intervention, enablement and safeguarding. Enabling people, to access information and tools, to live independently and allowing a positive response to growing service demand in a sustainable way, within the financial constraints of ECC.

The Integrated Neighbourhood model of practice is ever evolving and developing. Working within one of the Mid Locality Teams you will be an influencer of change and progression. The ethos being to support adults’ prevention to hospital and with discharge from hospital, when safe and appropriate to do so, and continuing their care and assessment out of hospital.

Wherever possible Adults will be supported to return to their home for assessment. Your support will be focussed on the Teams within the INT sites enabling adults to remain as independent and self-caring as possible in their own homes. Some Adults may have been discharged to a temporary care home environment to aid their recovery and for a period of assessment to be able to identify their short- or long-term care and support needs. For more guidance, please follow these links: NHS England » Neighbourhood health guidelines 2025/26 10 Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future - GOV.UK

To read more about our business area, please visit: Adult Social Care

Responsibilities:

Interaction with INT and Acute partners to raise TEC Awareness and deliver/support with training to increase trusted assessors.
Increase engagement within the acute and community hospitals and identify Adults who would benefit from TEC.
Work alongside colleagues in the locality to review cases to prevent admission and before discharge to consider TEC.
To attend Digital Champion and Ops meetings on behalf of the locality.
Link regularly with TEC team and Livity Life regarding choices of TEC and OT Assessment requests, queries, and opportunities.
Obtain case studies and share good practise.
Share learning and knowledge with hospital and community colleagues to create awareness of the TEC offer.
Identify opportunities to embed TEC into pathway across the locality.
Identify opportunities to test and learn new technology and evaluate effectiveness.
Liaise with Livity Life (Millbrook) around hosting regular TEC drop-in sessions to display equipment.
Provide quarterly feedback for the BCF boards on progress of role.

The Experience You Will Bring:

Experience within a social care setting, an NVQ/BTEC Level 3 or equivalent is desirable.
Evidence of continuing professional development and knowledge in relevant professional area.
Experience of building strong, effective relationships with adults, their families and carers in times of challenge and crisis.
Experience of undertaking direct, activity-based work with adults.
Knowledge of legislative and policy guidance applicable within Social Care.
Proven track record of building working relationships with partners and external agencies.
A certificate in First Aid and/or knowledge of Sign Language is desirable in this role.

Why Essex?

As one of the largest and most dynamic UK local authorities, Essex offers a stimulating public service environment. Covering over 1,420 square miles and serving 1.8 million residents, we’re committed to transformational change and delivering better quality at lower cost. Recognised in the top three of the latest IMPOWER index for productivity, we ensure everyone matters in Everyone's Essex. With flexible working options and a focus on innovation, whether you are looking to develop your career or contribute to the local community, Essex is the ideal place for you.

In February 2025, Greater Essex was accepted onto the Government’s devolution priority programme, which will see local authorities in Essex work towards establishing a Mayoral Combined County Authority by May 2026. You can read more about devolution and local government reorganisation (LGR) on our careers site.

Essex County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We’re committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply under our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process. We’re also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

Once you’ve secured your role within Essex County Council you will receive many great employee benefits, including support for unpaid carers and flexible working arrangements to accommodate their needs.

At Essex County Council, we value integrity and ethical behaviour. We kindly ask that you embrace our code of conduct and the Nolan principles, including throughout the recruitment process. Your commitment to these standards helps us maintain a positive and respectful workplace for everyone.

The role requires you to be mobile throughout a wider operational area including travelling around the county of Essex and beyond, transporting service users and their belongings and to be able to do so in an emergency. Driving licence and car or the ability to meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means is essential.

As part of employment with Essex County Council (ECC) should your role require a DBS check you will be required to register with the DBS update service. The DBS update service ensures all registered DBS certificates are kept up to date and allows authorised parties to view the status of your certificate. This is an annual subscription, and you will be responsible for ensuring this is maintained. For further information on the DBS update service please go to https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service

Essex County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

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If you have queries on this role or require anything further, please email resourcing.team@essex.gov.uk

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