Community Assessment Officer
Team: COA - Hospital Discharge Service
Family: Providing - CBG7
Salary: £28,598 - £31,022 per annum pro rata
Hours: 37 Hours per week
Location: You will be expected to attend a CBC office location as often as needed to carry out your role, which will be no less than once per month.
Contract Type: Hybrid - Permanent
Closing Date: 2nd November 2025
Interview Date: TBC
About the role:
As a Hospital Community assessment officer, you’ll be at the heart of our Better Care Fund developments whilst supporting our residents to leave hospital safely. Join us and find your greatness in supporting vulnerable people to be safe, well and as independent as possible.
Our Hospital Discharge Service provides Assessment and Case Management across all client groups. We are committed in supporting people to leave both acute and non-acute hospital settings with timely and safe integrated discharge planning. Central Bedfordshire has a number of positions to support people across multiple hospital services that serve our Council area. The service works in close partnership with other health and care systems, we work alongside our Community Health Service provider to deliver a multi-disciplinary approach to Integrated Health & Social Care. The working week of 37 hours is spread across 7 days on a rotation base.
We are currently looking to recruit an community Assessment Officer to join our busy and multi-skilled Adult Hospital Discharge Team. The Team is committed to supporting people to be as independent as possible with a strong focus on improving individual outcomes in a strength based, person centred way, the use of Integrated TEC and creative solutions. You will be expected to complete holistic assessments as required by the Care Act 2014.
Working for us, you can expect to be valued for your positive and dynamic practice, be assisted to continue to develop as a practitioner within a supportive learning environment and operate within a ‘can do’ culture. Your contribution in helping us to succeed could enable you to discover your greatness.
You will need to have the skills that help us achieve the delivery of excellent person-centred approaches. You will value working in partnership with the people we support and sound evidence-based practice and understand that best practice results in best value. You will know the importance of enabling people to be supported to be as independent as possible for as long as possible and that having a strong connection with local services and communities can make a real difference to people's lives and overall wellbeing.
Adult Services is fully committed to working collaboratively with our health/partnership organisation colleagues to provide a seamless multi-agency response in supporting residents with their health and social care needs. Our collective practice has a strong focus on early prevention and optimising levels of independence. The Community Assessment Service is continually striving to ensure that best practice is delivered to the people we support and is investing heavily in being a vibrant, supportive, and inspiring place to work.
We are a progressive team who offer manageable caseloads and a friendly, supportive work environment, which will include the allocation of a buddy when you first start.
In return, Central Bedfordshire Council supports the workforce to operate in an agile manner by providing modern IT equipment as well as generous annual leave, local government pension scheme, regular supervision, support to develop and ongoing training. We are fully committed to your learning and development beginning with a robust Induction Plan.
The role is currently combined with working within one of the area satellite offices and some collaborative time with your team in the office and working from home. You will be required to complete face to face appointments with persons receiving the services and carers and where appropriate through visual virtual technology.
If you think you have the skills and aptitude to join us on our journey, ensuring that Central Bedfordshire remains a great place to live and work, we would like to hear from you.
Our Offer
We have a number of rewards and benefits available to our staff, to view these please visit our Rewards and Benefits page
Our aspiration is to be a truly flexible employer. We welcome discussion on location, hours and working pattern as part of the application process.
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You will be expected to demonstrate how you meet the key accountabilities and competencies detailed within this Recruitment Pack.
Our Competency Framework and Qualification Guidance are to be read in conjunction with our Recruitment Pack.
For an informal discussion about this position, please contact: Cristina Almeida at Cristina.almeida@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk or call 0300 300 8033
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Safeguarding:
Central Bedfordshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees, volunteers and contractors to share this commitment. This post is subject to the disclosure of criminal records.
To maintain a fair and consistent approach for applicants, it is Central Bedfordshire Council's policy to only consider applications made via our online application system and we therefore thank you for not submitting your application offline.
Our National Careers Service team offer a free monthly workshop covering CV writing and how to complete the statement sections of the Central Bedfordshire Council online application form. This MS Teams workshop is open to anyone from the UK and lasts around 1.5 hours. Please book your place here.
More information about this service can be found here: Support getting into work or learning | Central Bedfordshire Council