- Pay Rate:
£15.60 per hour PAYE
- Hours per Week:
35 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 4 months
- GREENWICH, London,
SE18 6HQ
Temporary Telecare Officer
Reference no: Greenwich RQ1057106
Pay rate: £15.60 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 35 Monday – Sunday, shift pattern
This opening assignment is for 4 months
City: GREENWICH, London
Enhanced DBS required for this role
The Telecare shift pattern is working four 12hr shifts (2 days and 2 nights) then 4 days off. Those shifts are 7am -7pm (2 days) and 7pm -7am (2 days)
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A Telecare Officer is required to undertake the day-to-day duties of the Telecare service, providing emergency call handling and response to the most vulnerable people in the borough. In addition, to offer support to the OOH service and work cross-functionally when required. The successful candidate will be required to 12 hours shift patterns including nights, weekends, and bank holidays to support the service when needed
Key responsibilities:
- Answer and monitor calls made to Telecare, from a variety of sources, assessing their nature and taking action in accordance with guidelines and procedures. Providing advice and assistance, always alerting the emergency services where appropriate and ensuring the well-being and personal security of people linked to the service.
- Support the delivery of the Council’s Emergency out-of hours Service, Customer Service and the out of Hours service for Lewisham. Providing access to a range of council services that reflect and meet the needs of our diverse local community and internal customers.
- Attend homes and be the first person on scene providing assistance, including the provision of first aid on an emergency basis, ensuring that the emergency services are called when necessary. To ensure that people’s homes are left secure following visits.
- Work shift patterns, including overnight weekends and bank holidays, as per the rota, to have a flexible approach in order to cover additional shifts if required.
- Demonstrate and install equipment in people’s homes, collecting information and completing all necessary paperwork.
- Ensure that all referrals for the service are processed within set time limits, actioned and followed through appropriately.
- Use, test, maintain and ensure all equipment used by the telecare service is in good working order in line with the manufacturer's specifications. Raise and escalate any remedial actions required appropriately.
- Ensure all technology used by telecare is serviceable and fit for purpose, completing stock control and other records as required.
- Make periodic contact with clients in line with good practice guidelines.
- Keep accurate records of calls received and action taken, ensuring that incidents are escalated appropriately in accordance with procedures.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Experience:
- Experience of working shifts and an appreciation of the need to work flexible hours and in a variety of locations to meet/manage customer demand, service requirements and workload.
- Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
- Experience of dealing with distressed, irate and aggressive
- members of the public in a sympathetic calm and tactful manner desirable.
- Experience of a Telecare or call handling role or experience of working closely with older or vulnerable people desirable.
Knowledge:
- Knowledge and experience of all services provided by Customer Services including relevant IT, telephone and manual processes.
- Knowledge of service provision for older or vulnerable people and a sound understanding of the breadth of services delivered by the council
- Good understanding of the Telecare service, Assistive technology and alarm receiving platforms.
Skills & Abilities:
- Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent communication skills written and oral.
- Enthusiastic and committed to delivering professional and high-quality service.
- Able to deal with customers who are distressed/stressed/vulnerable over the phone and in person.
- Be able to work under pressure and on own initiative.
- Be resilient and calm in an emergency.
- Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.
Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
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