Our Adult Social Care Careers

This is a dynamic, front door service comprising of occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, care assessors and social workers.

With a strong focus on preventative interventions, the team manages a wide range of occupational therapy needs such as basic equipment and minor adaptations, non-complex major adaptations and non-complex moving and handling within a 6-week timeframe.

The teams have strong links with other Adult Social Care teams such as Reablement and the long-Term OT and Sensory team referring internally as the need is identified.

The team provides medium to long-term support to residents with complex needs in a preventative, proactive, enabling way using a strength-based approach to mitigate and minimise risks.

The team consists of a Team Manager, Social Workers, Deputy Team Managers, Care Assessors and Advanced Practitioners.

Complete strengths-based scheduled statutory and unscheduled reviews of service users’ and carers’ support outcomes and take appropriate action aligned to their ongoing needs as assessed under the Care Act 2014.

The team consists of a Team Manager, Deputy Team Manager, Social Workers, and Care Assessors.

The Brent Hospital Discharge Team is dedicated in providing support for individuals during their discharge from hospital utilising a home first approach. With a commitment to ensuring safe and timely transitions, the team collaborates closely with hospital staff, commissioned services, carers, and their families throughout the process.

The team is multidisciplinary comprising of social workers, occupational therapists, care assessors and hospital liaison officers.

The team conducts comprehensive social care assessments and coordinates the setup of appropriate services based on individual needs, ensuring a seamless and secure transition for individuals leaving the hospital.

Occupational therapists within the team are dedicated to ensuring moving and handling, aids and adaptations needs are addressed advising on the optimum level of care required in reaching into hospitals where appropriate.

Our Information and Advice Team is the ‘front door’ to Brent’s Adult Social Care Department, providing residents with information and advice on available universal and voluntary services, signposting them to relevant agencies and manage cases requiring immediate intervention through provision of support and commissioning of suitable care provision.

The Integrated Neighbourhood Team works in a collaborative way with colleagues from Health and Adult Social Care in Brent.

This is a new service which also sits within the Information and Advice Team, who provide information to Health Professionals, on the range of services Adult Social Care has and provide guidance around services and resources available in Brent.

The teams consist of a team manager, social workers, Occupational Therapists, Deputy Team Managers, Care Assessors and Advanced Practitioners.

Social workers in the Adult Social Care Learning Disabilities team ensure Brent residents receive the appropriate support by implementing ASC statutory legislative duties as defined in the Care Act 2014 and Capacity Act 2015.

They work to defined service standards including meeting individual and team targets in keeping with wider departmental target.

Social workers in the ASC Mental Health Team ensure Brent residents receive the appropriate support by implementing ASC statutory legislative duties as in the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Mental Health Act 1983, Amended 2007.

They work to defined service standards including meeting individual and team targets in keeping with wider departmental target.

The Brent Reablement team is an integrated, multidisciplinary team consisting of social workers, occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, care assessors and physiotherapists.

For up to 6 weeks OTs work with residents and reablement providers to promote independence and choice by directly helping residents to set and work towards their reablement goals. They advise enablers on how best to carry out a task with residents and advise on the level of ongoing care required.

To protect adults in Brent from being the subject of abuse from others and from self-neglect.

The Adult Safeguarding Team works with adults who are in receipt of or, entitled to care services and suffering or at risk of abuse. The safeguarding team also works with a preventative approach.

The Supportive Multi Agency Response Team (SMART) provides an integrated response for Brent residents whose vulnerability and experience of exclusion impacts on their mental health and wellbeing.

They may have complex intersecting needs such as a cycle of homelessness, mental health admissions, drug and alcohol dependencies and contact with the criminal justice system and probation services. These individuals are often multiply excluded from services as the primary need is not always clear and they do not appear to meet eligibility criteria for statutory services. They may also struggle to communicate and sustain their engagement with professionals.

Occupational therapists carry out individual holistic person-centred assessment for adults who appear to have care and support needs and who have a predominant physically disability. The OTs complete functional assessments for residents in relation to manual handling, major and minor adaptations, complex equipment, and housing needs.

Working closely with other social care colleagues, the OTs assess to right size care packages, assess risk within the home or community services, prevent hospital admissions and support discharge planning from placement.

The team has fostered excellent working relationships with housing colleagues and operate under a truly progressive housing assistance policy.

The sensory team have Rehabilitation Officers for Vision Impaired and Deafblind Specialist Workers. They assess, train and support service users with everyday tasks such as mobility in the community, activities of daily living tasks in the home, lighting and low vision.

Our team provide home environmental equipment, build confidence, skills and encourage a positive mental attitude for residents who have a sensory loss. They support people to learn and re-learn how to perform everyday tasks setting goals to achieve outcomes, enabling residents to use communication in whichever format they choose.