Our Enablement and Urgent Care services are responsive and flexible with the aim of supporting people to develop and maintain their independence within their home environment. Our aim is to prevent unnecessary hospital admission and facilitate early discharge from the acute hospitals.
Supervising a team of Support Workers, as a Home First Assessor you will work closely with people who use our services, their families, friends and carers, who all play an invaluable role in how our users experience our services. They are expected to be kind and responsive, professional and informative and contribute to the quality of the services provided across the Health and Social Care economy
Ensuring the best possible outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence-based policies and procedures.
• Prepare and present cases at a weekly meeting with the Registered Practitioner ensuring that every aspect of the persons journey through the service is available to ensure a judged decision based on up to date information.
• Manage a caseload of people requiring enablement/assessment, and community equipment assessment, identifying the Service Users’ eligible needs and developing an enablement support programme in conjunction with individual Service Users, their families, carers and external agencies in order to enable the Service User as much as possible within this short, time-limited intervention.
• Manage a caseload of clients requiring long term domiciliary services and developing a support programme in conjunction with individual service users, their families, carers and external agencies.
• Monitor provision and quality of service through regular visits to Home First Support Workers at their workplace, to ensure work undertaken consistently meets client requirements in accordance with each programme of support, enablement policy and national standards of care.
Please refer to the attached Job Description for full job specification.
Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent
We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences
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This advert closes on Sunday 26 Jan 2025