An exciting opportunity has arisen in the well established Knowsley IKAN service. The team are looking to recruit enthusiastic, hardworking, reliable colleagues with good knowledge of the Knowsley area.
The IKAN team offers advice and support to Knowsley residents over the age of 55 aimed at helping them to keep safe and well, maintain fitness and prevent falls.
The team can assess needs at home and provide simple aids and adaptations if needed, including people who may be at risk of falling.
The team also offers chair-based exercise activities at community venues, social activities to prevent loneliness and isolation, and advice on financial matters.
The team is supported by the Knowsley Falls and Fracture prevention service.
The advert will close early if a significant number of applications are received
1. Responsible for undertaking Holistic assessment for services users over the age of 55 across Knowsley who require assistance to maintain independence and improve safety within the home. They provide support to service users who may have concerns regarding finances and pensions.
They will be required to assess the environmental and physical health needs of individual. to identify, implement and review low level adaptations or short-term interventions.
2. Will Identify any appropriate equipment and demonstrate its use..
3. Will deliver identified health promotion advice/ activities to individual and groups .
4. Will be required to lead Chair based exercise groups within the community setting. This will involve leading exercise sessions to a small group of patients, completing risk assessments of venues, and physical activity readiness risk assessment forms for all service users.
5. Will build positive relationships with both internal NHS professional services and external partners such as Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council, Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service, Health watch, Better Lives and Care & Repair.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
The post holder will be responsible for undertaking Holistic assessment for services users over the age of 55 across Knowsley who require assistance to maintain independence and improve safety within the home. They provide support to service users who may have concerns regarding finances and pensions.
Assessments are completed in service user’s homes and across the community. They will be required to assess the environmental and physical health needs of individual. to identify, implement and review low level adaptations or short-term interventions.
Post holder will Identify any appropriate equipment and demonstrate its use. The Post holder will refer to partnership agencies where required, to assist with implementation of low-level adaptations and home safety equipment.
The postholder will deliver identified health promotion advice/ activities to individual and groups of older people to increase their knowledge of skills in relation to health and wellbeing to make better health choices.
The post holder will be required to lead Chair based exercise groups within the community setting. This will involve leading exercise sessions to a small group of patients, completing risk assessments of venues, and physical activity readiness risk assessment forms for all service users. Identify and implement new groups as the service requires.
The post holder will work as part of a team that works closely and supports a wide range of other services to promote health and wellbeing across the whole Community including supported Living facilities.
The post holder will build positive relationships with both internal NHS professional services and external partners such as Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council, Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service, Health watch, Better Lives and Care & Repair. They provide support to service users who may have concerns regarding finances and pensions.
The Post holder will be expected to use shared decision-making techniques to agree and facilitate an individual based plan which best suits the patient, to improve safety in their environment. The Post holder will support service users in maintaining maximum level of mobility and independence and reducing their risk of falls. This may include identification of suitable indoor walking aids.
The Post holder will contribute to the learning and development of new team members and students. Assisting with identification of learning objectives, monitoring progress and providing support through managerial and clinical supervision.
This advert closes on Sunday 22 Sep 2024