Home First and Reablement Coordinator

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health care provider in Gloucester is looking for a professional to manage and deploy Reablement workers effectively. The role involves conducting assessments, providing information to service users and families, and ensuring high service delivery standards. Candidates should demonstrate the ability to work within a multidisciplinary team and a commitment to service improvement.

Responsibilities

• Ensure efficient deployment of Senior Reablement workers.
• Undertake initial assessments and reviews following Home First and Reablement.
• Provide information to service users and their families.

Job description

Responsibilities

• Ensuring the efficient deployment of Senior Reablement workers and Reablement workers to meet service user need and to ensure hours are fully utilised.
• To undertake initial assessments and undertake reassessment / review following the period of Home First and Reablement.
• Providing information and advice to service users, their carers and families on progression from the short-term service.
• Able to work alone as well as part of a multidisciplinary team including therapists, senior community nurse assessor, Progression and wellbeing co-ordinator and reablement workers.
• Proactively seek feedback from Senior Reablement and Reablement workers on a regular basis to monitor progress of service users towards meeting their outcomes and to ensure discharge/onward progression is timely.
• To manage the recruitment, selection, induction, competency completion, training and development of Senior Reablement and Reablement workers.
• To carry out regular supervision and management of the staff reporting to the post; this will include monitoring performance, sickness absence management and conducting observed practice of the RW and SRW team to ensure high standards of service delivery are maintained.