Overview
Be a key member of a multi‑disciplinary, multi‑agency team providing support to adults of all ages who do not require specialist acute hospital admission but need assistance to maintain independence within their home setting. The role emphasizes promoting and maintaining the individual’s independence, dignity, and choice through medical, nursing, therapeutic treatment programmes or social care interventions.
Working across Calderdale, the role involves assessing a wide variety of situations and providing solutions such as equipment, adaptations and assistive technology. The service supports hospital discharges and works to prevent unnecessary admissions. The UCR team delivers a seven‑day service with staff working on a rota basis for various shift patterns.
The service focuses on rapid assessment and intervention for adults who require crisis support without acute admission.
Responsibilities
- Establish positive relationships with people we provide care for within professional boundaries, promoting dignity, choice and respect.
- Work with individuals to encourage independence by providing support and personal care across diverse circumstances.
- Provide personal care – washing, dressing, toileting, shaving, mouth care, catheter care, feeding, meal preparation – with the objective of encouraging independent performance of these tasks.
- Support and enable service users to improve or maintain mobility through exercise and use of mobility appliances or fitting equipment.
- Accurately record and document information; read, respond to and act upon support plans, risk assessments, manual handling assessments, medication profiles and other written information. Complete mileage, book A/L, toil and apply for internal training on the system.
- Assist people, where appropriate, with managing and taking prescribed medication in accordance with their medication profile and policy; dispense medication, apply pain patches, contact chemist for re‑medication, collect and deliver prescriptions. Assist with stoma and catheter care to recognise risks and report concerns.
- Assess needs for equipment, assistive technology and adaptations. Provide equipment, demonstrate and instruct individuals, carers and other professionals in safe use, and offer ongoing training when required. Implement treatment protocols, monitor progress, feed back to practitioners, make minor adjustments to treatment programmes and assist registered practitioners with complex treatment.
- Support community participation by helping individuals and families identify local activities that maintain social connections and engagement.
- Attend training as identified through appraisal in line with national care standards, council policy and skills training. Proactively seek development opportunities, assist in induction of new colleagues and maintain positive relationships within and beyond the team.
- Support and participate in treatment, exercise regimes and rehabilitation plans developed by other team members (basic nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy) after appropriate training; e.g., apply splints, follow exercise regimes and use walking aids.
- Demonstrate responsible attitude and creative approach – be open to new ways of working with service users and carers, work independently, use personal initiative, and raise issues requiring supervisory support or emergency handling.
- Work in the homes of service users – houses, flats, sheltered housing, caravans, etc. – and refer difficult situations to the Locality Manager or Community Service Manager if necessary.
These responsibilities are not exhaustive; the post holder may be required to carry out additional duties as directed, within the scope outlined above.
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