Hoarding Support Worker - Stockport, United Kingdom - Age UK Stockport

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AGE UK STOCKPORT
Home Support Hoarding Support Worker

Job Title:
Home Support - Hoarding support worker


Responsible to:
Home Support Manager and Operations Manager Communities.


Salary Initial £23,078


Hours of Work: 37 hours per week. Job share considered.


Pension:
Entry into the Age UK Stockport Group Personal Pension Scheme


Holidays:
Full time allowance 5.6 weeks comprising of 20 working days and 8 statutory holidays per annum.


Location:
Working from AUKS Commonweal office, and premises / homes located throughout the borough of Stockport.


SERVICE DESCRIPTION


The Home Support Service is commissioned by Stockport Council as part of a range of Prevention and Early Help Services.


The service will actively contribute to the delivery of the Council's ONE Stockport vision, and the ONE Health and Care Plan focusing on early help and prevention with ambitions to improve mental health, target inequalities through neighbourhood working, working to become an Age-Friendly Borough, and supporting the people of Stockport to live their best lives by embedding prevention, reablement and a Home First ethos.


Home Support will work with Stockport residents 18 and over and their families who need an element of practical support to help them live safely and independently in their own home and community.

The service recognizes that a safe and comfortable home environment is essential in maintaining a person's health and wellbeing, independence and quality of life.


The service will provide short-term practical support in and around a person's home environment that is person-centred and focused on supporting their independence as well as their health and wellbeing.

The service will prioritise people who would otherwise struggle to remain living at home independently, those with limited financial resources and people who have no other support networks to turn to for assistance.

Through the provision of practical support the service will be key in supporting people to be discharged from hospital to a safe home environment and will also help to prevent them from going into crisis and from needing to access formal support services.


Where a need is identified the service will link in with another of the Prevention and Early Help services the 'Community Hub', to support service users to engage with the community, providing another supporting mechanism to help them live independently at home.

The service may also refer into the Boroughwide Support Service if any additional complex needs have been identified.

The Service will be inclusive and accept referrals on a case by case basis. No blanket exclusions will apply.

There will be an expectation that any risk information is passed to the Help in the Home service when the referral is made by professionals.

Priority will be given to people who will most benefit from the service, including:

  • People who are being discharged from hospital or are at risk of admission / readmission to hospital
  • People living with long term health conditions and/or disabilities
  • Those affected by accident, illness, falls and/or mobility issues
  • Anyone who has been identified as having needs in relation to selfneglect and/or hoarding
  • People who have been affected by a change in circumstances, to help them to adapt to living alone eg following a bereavement or where a household member has moved into a care setting
  • Those with limited income and financial resources
  • People who have limited support networks, including family and friends, to turn to for help.


Where a household is not considered to have limited income and financial resources but requires the expertise of the self-neglect and hoarding service, a charging model will need to be developed to recover the actual cost of the intervention.

There may be the potential to access the Council's Social Care Charging Unit for a financial assessment to determine the level of contribution required.


The Service is likely to work with people for up to a month or two, but this is likely to be for longer in the case of Hoarding referrals.

Generally speaking, longer term and ongoing needs will not be met by the service, the focus will be on short term interventions to support people with the presenting issues, with a view to supporting them to access appropriate long-term services.


The Service will establish close working relationships with statutory, voluntary and community sector services and local community networks and groups, and all other relevant agencies.

The service will also develop close collaborative and working relationships with all providers delivering services as part of the Prevention and Early Help recommission and refer people into these services as part of a holistic package of support.

The service will be accessible during the hours of 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday, but there will be flexibility to include any support that needs to be delivered outside of these hours.

**THE HOARDI
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