Community Response Assistant Level 2 HCC615680 - Basingstoke, United Kingdom - Shared Services Partnership

Description

Job Details:

Salary Range: £25,628 - £28,326 per annum
Hours per week: 37
Work Location: Dame Mary Fagan House, Basingstoke
Contract: Permanent
Closing date: 19 May 2024

The Role:

Would you like the exciting opportunity to join the Hampshire County Council Reablement North Team based in Basingstoke? The team provides Reablement in the community to frail and vulnerable Adults across Hampshire. The team includes the Community Response Team, Occupational Therapists and Sensory Officers.

The Reablement team will be working in partnership with our Health colleagues to help reduce the need for the service user to be admitted to hospital. You will provide Reablement by offering encouragement and guidance to maximize the independence and potential, by helping service users to remain living in their own home. This will include intimate personal care, continence care, Moving and Handling to continuously work towards the service user's independence.

Your responsibilities will be to ensure that initial visits with service user's which include risk assessments, goal setting and updating the service user's reablement plans are completed for all our CRA1's to follow. There is an element of personal care to be provided within this role, you will also coach and mentor CRA 1's to ensure staff meet levels of expected competence. CRA 2's also supports Team Leaders, Occupational Therapists and Sensory Officers within their daily responsibilities.

In return, you will receive professional ongoing training, comprehensive induction and the full support of Managers, Team Leaders, Occupational Therapists and Sensory Loss Officers who will provide coaching and mentoring.

You will be expected to work on a rolling roster which includes AM's, PM's and weekend shifts. Service hours are between 07:00-22:00, 365 days of the year.
You will need to travel across the area, and you will be paid travel from your office base.

In return we can offer you a fantastic development opportunity within a friendly and supportive team, who take pride in delivering a high level of service. In addition, Hampshire County Council offers a comprehensive suite of management training. This is offered alongside a generous benefits package.

For further information please visit our Reablement website.

Values Based Recruitment

We recruit for attitudes and values in Adults' Health and Care, please explain how you demonstrate our 5 core values in your application.

• Working as one organisation - We collaborate with each other and our partners for the good of our service users. Support each other to recover quickly from setbacks and take responsibility in managing our personal and organisational wellbeing. We work together to ensure we are a healthy and resilient organisation.
• Integrity and respect - we value and encourage every individual for their unique strengths, and demonstrate our confidence in each other through our language and behaviour. We are fair, honest and reliable in everything we say and do.
• Professionalism - we work hard to deliver the best services that we can and we hold ourselves accountable for our performance. We have pride in what we deliver and enable.
• Making a difference - our work puts people at the forefront of what we do and helps communities across the County to thrive. We care.
• Continuous Improvement - we are ambitious. We challenge ourselves to innovate, be creative and work to create a sustainable, future proof Hampshire.

Additional Information

Community Response Assistant Level 2 Job Description and Person Specification

Vetting Requirements:

This post is subject to a Criminal Records Check

Contact Details for an Informal Discussion:

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Hampshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.

In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) applies.

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