About the role
Our Technology Enabled Care Services (TECS) Team is recruiting for another Technologist. Full time and part time positions available, primarily based at Amundsen House, St Ives. The salary offered will be at Scale S01, SCP 23-25 (£30,151-£32,020 FTE).
TECS is a pioneering social care service within the Prevention and Early Intervention Service. We work alongside colleagues from Sensory Services, Adult Early Help and Reablement to support people to maximise their independence and improve outcomes by preventing, reducing, or delaying the need for formal care, avoiding hospital admission, and supporting informal carers.
What will you be doing?
Our Technologists support people within and around the outskirts of Cambridgeshire to remain living as independently as possible by undertaking all stages of provision of the Technology Enabled Care service. This includes referral management, assessment, planning, equipment provision, monitoring, review and discharge. To contribute to promoting the TEC service and provide training to develop and maintain the awareness of colleagues.
You will be required to travel across the county and will need access to a vehicle.
About you
Our ideal candidate should have a positive can-do attitude with excellent assessment and problem-solving skills, and a practical outlook. You will be motivated, reliable, dependable, self-confident, and able to work autonomously. Above all, you will be committed to representing our Service. In joining the team, you will be part of a fast paced and extremely busy, dynamic social care service where your flair for finding creative solutions can thrive alongside supporting people to independence.
For further details please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
For an informal discussion about the post, please contact: Charlotte Salf, Team Manager, 07880016088 - Charlotte.Salf@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
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Interviews are expected to be held on the 10th and 12th of January (PM), via Microsoft Teams.
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:
- 25 days annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays
- Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme
- Flexible and agile working patterns that will achieve a successful work and life balance
- Ongoing continued professional development
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.