Assessment and Review Officer

Is this you? Enjoy helping others to achieve their aims and targets? Solving problems motivate you? Have good observation skills? Want, or currently work, in a social care role and are ready for the next exciting challenge?

Assessment and Review Officer - Home First

Home First is an Urgent Care and Reablement Service Provided by Hoople, As a team, we enable those living in Herefordshire to achieve independence and live more fulfilling lives!

Reablement focuses on promoting independence by supporting people to do as much as possible for themselves both physically and psychologically. It aims to do this by supporting people to continue living at home, preventing admissions into hospital or residential settings, and facilitating timely discharges.

Reablement is a short-term service working with individuals for up to 6 weeks.

As an Assessment and Review Officer working for Home First, You will be the first to visit an individual in their own home and together you will complete an initial assessment, risk assessments, and identify the individual's daily living tasks that can be re-abled.

You will create a support plan which focuses on goal planning for the Reablement Workers to follow alongside the individual to achieve their outcomes which are reviewed weekly during the service, and you will also assess and prescribe items of equipment to enable independence and reduce the need for ongoing support.

You will also be responsible for writing Medication Administration records and Identifying concerns that affects an individual's physical and psychological wellbeing.

We believe that by supporting customers to identify and achieve their personal goals and outcomes, and by embedding personalisation, individuals will have choice and control over how their support will be delivered, this will have a positive impact on health and wellbeing.

The role requires working a variation of hours between 7.00am and 22:00pm, along with working 2 weekends in a one month period, the service operates a set 4 week rolling rota pattern and individual working pattern to be confirmed at interview, On a daily basis you will liaise with colleagues, individuals, health professionals and the public, either face to face or over the telephone, so it is important you have a courteous, professional manner., We welcome applicants whatever their personal characteristics or social identity. All requests for flexible working arrangements and reasonable adjustments will be considered. All disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria of the job are guaranteed an interview.

You must be able to work as part of a team but also have the ability to work on your own initiative.

- You must be able to drive and support the service both North and South of the county.

If you are somebody that has excellent communication skills, good at problem solving and can think innovatively to make a difference, then this is the role for you., A level 2 or 3 qualification in Health and Social Care is essential or demonstrable experience within a previous role.

A minimum of 1 years, experience in Health and/ or Social Care is essential.

Hoople:

Our vision

To provide excellent business support services to the public sector and those who work with them.

Our mission

Creating and building trusted and sustainable relationships in order to deliver business critical services for our key customers.

Our values

• Passion for improvement - Continuous improvement to develop more effective ways of delivering services for our customers


• Customer focus - Satisfying our customers and helping them to support themselves


• Professional integrity - Bringing the best of our shared technical expertise and professional values to our work


• Mutual support - Whether one-to-one or in teams, we encourage and support each other to strive for excellent performance in all that we do


• Ambition - Our staff are committed to the success of our company in delivering effective services to organisations, communities and individuals
  
  We have a whole load of benefits for you to enjoy!

Role that is salary paid
Paid mileage - 45p Per Mile
26 Annual Leave Days + Bank Holidays (31 days after 5 years' service)
TOIL and paid overtime
Cycle to work scheme and Discounted shopping
Career Progression throughout Hoople
Childcare voucher scheme
Uniform and mobile phone included
Discounted HALO leisure membership
Funded Qualifications