Full Time / 37 hours / Fixed Term for 12 months
Are you a confident leader? Why not join LCC and play a key role in keeping the residents of Leicester City safe, healthy and happy. We’re currently recruiting for an organised Reablement Officer to join the Reablement Service.
The Reablement Service are a small dedicated team, whose main goal is to enrich the lives of those returning home from hospital to ensure they maintain their independence and healthy living in a safe manner within the comfort of their own home.
As a Reablement Officer you’ll join a team of 80+, including: Front line staff, reablement assistants, officers, co-ordinators and administrative employees.
This position is a full time, fixed term contract over 12 months where you will be based at the Neville Centre on Leicester General Hospital site. The hours for this role will be based on a flexible rota working mornings and evenings 7 days a week, this includes weekend, bank holidays and other public holidays. This post is likely to be extended with a view to further funding.
What you’ll be doing:
As a Reablement Officer your most integral task is supervising the Reablement Assistants comprising of approximately 12 people +. These are a mixture of temporary and external resources who support people on their Reablement/ICRS journey to independnt living; develop risk assessments and reablement plans and support the ICRS Service with its swift response to critical social care cases. For this you’ll utilise a range of HR tools to achieve effective people and performance management.
More specifically, you’ll visit individuals that have been referred onto the service and undertake a comprehensive risk assessment to ensure a safe working environment for both staff and individuals in need of the service.
In addition, you’ll complete personalised Reablement/ICRS plan for the person using the service which is then cascaded down through you to the Reablement Assistant to follow through with ensuring independence and safety is given to the individual within their own home.
This role also involves identifying/arranging low level equipment, such as: assistive technology and telecare devices through a Trusted Assessors assessment. Other evidence-based research will involve things like presenting key findings from each visit at the daily multi-disciplinary team meeting in order to help establish a discharge date and refer on to therapy staff (where appropriate).
What you'll need:
The successful candidate will have substantial experience of working within a health or social care setting which includes the provision of care to adults and older people with complex needs (for example: a physical disability, a learning difficulty or a mental health diagnosis). You’ll understand and have the ability to implement processes that encourage high performance management and have previous employment experience in supervising and managing staff effectively because of this.
In addition, you’ll be able to showcase knowledge of health and safety legislation with enough confidence to operate the concept of personalisation understanding the benefits this can have within integrated care.
You’ll need to be disciplined with yourself and others, have excellent organisation skills in order to prioritise your workload and be able to work under pressure in a busy and often difficult job role.
In addition, you’ll have great interpersonal skills. You’ll be able to communicate effectively to a wide range of people from varied and diverse backgrounds, ethnicities, and educations in both verbal and written contexts. As a confident person you’ll be able to match your approach to the needs of each individual as they are encountered with a flexible and no-nonsense approach.
Overall, you’ll be an eager candidate who is keen to learn and ready to take on new skills within a short period of time in order to consistently perform highly alongside their team/service to offer a service to individuals that is safe, timely and compassionate.
Due to the nature of the role you'll need a full driving licence. This post is also subject to an Enhanced DBS check.
From 11 November 2021, care homes must only allow individuals who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (or exempt) entry inside of a care home. This status is required for this role, therefore you will be asked to provide evidence of your vaccination status as a condition of employment. Details on what you will be require to provide can be found at General guidance on demonstrating evidence www.gov.uk.
What we can offer you
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including childcare vouchers, discounts on city buses and trains and help with relocation to Leicester, where appropriate. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at out benefits calculator.
Join us
We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.
For an informal conversation please contact Oliver O’Neil Turner on 0116 454 5404. If shortlisted, interviews will take place on 26th of February 2022.