IKAN Assessor

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the well established Knowsley IKAN service. The team are looking to recruit enthusiastic, hardworking, reliable colleagues with good knowledge of the Knowsley area.

The IKAN team offers advice and support to Knowsley residents over the age of 55 aimed at helping them to keep safe and well, maintain fitness and prevent falls.

The team can assess needs at home and provide simple aids and adaptations if needed, including people who may be at risk of falling.

The team also offers chair-based exercise activities at community venues, social activities to prevent loneliness and isolation, and advice on financial matters., 1. Responsible for undertaking Holistic assessment for services users over the age of 55 across Knowsley who require assistance to maintain independence and improve safety within the home. They provide support to service users who may have concerns regarding finances and pensions.They will be required to assess the environmental and physical health needs of individual. to identify, implement and review low level adaptations or short-term interventions.
2. Will Identify any appropriate equipment and demonstrate its use..
3. Will deliver identified health promotion advice/ activities to individual and groups .
4. Will be required to lead Chair based exercise groups within the community setting. This will involve leading exercise sessions to a small group of patients, completing risk assessments of venues, and physical activity readiness risk assessment forms for all service users.
5. Will build positive relationships with both internal NHS professional services and external partners such as Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council, Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service, Health watch, Better Lives and Care & Repair.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.