Job overview

Our Home First & Reablement service supports people return home after a stay in hospital to continue their recovery in their own surroundings – regaining their ability to live as independently as possible.

We are seeking candidates with experience in the delivery of Home First & Reablement and have experience of working as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.

As a Home First & Reablement co-ordinator, you will provide managerial and operational support for the day to day delivery of the service, providing operational line management of Senior Reablement assistants, Reablement assistants and Administrators and Scheduling planners. You will work closely with other health care professionals and be responsible for assessing and delivering essential clinical and personal care to our service users within the Forest and Tewkesbury locality.  You will ensure that our service user needs are met and assist the team in maintaining high standards of care delivery which will include visits to service users.

This is an exciting time to join our service – we are expanding to continue to provide quality care and support and are looking for enthusiastic and motivated individuals who want to work with people in their communities. 

Main duties of the job

•    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 Reablement team to ensure high standards of service delivery are maintained.

Working for our organisation

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us.  In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views.  It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

 This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement.  However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.