Community Rehabilitation Officer

at  North Lincolnshire Council

North Lincolnshire Home First Community support is a registered Rehabilitation and Reablement service that provides time limited intervention and therapies to people within their own homes. Our aim is to ensure that a person can remain at home and feel confident and is safe to live as independently as possible following a period of illness or injury. We work in partnership with other social care and health professionals to prevent care needs from escalating and also work to prevent avoidable admissions and facilitate appropriate early discharge from hospital via working with the integrated discharge team.
Our Rehabilitation service ‘helps people do things for themselves’ rather than ‘doing it for them’ through short term intensive support programmes that enables people to optimise their daily living skills and well being. The role will involve working with individuals and their circle of support to regain their confidence and move forward with their life - based on their abilities and strengths and those of their family and community.
Home first Community support is also the Local Authorities crisis out of hours provider ensuring the safety and well being of vulnerable adults with social care needs across the whole of North Lincolnshire 365/24/7. You will therefore under the direction of the senior on duty be required to be responsive to such crisis intervention and work with the service user and their circle of support to make safe and enable individuals to subsequently regain control of their lives.
As a rehabilitation officer you will need to be solution focussed, have the ability to motivate others, have excellent decision making and interpersonal skills and be able to work autonomously in complex situations to determine need and facilitate progress through the service.
You will also be responsible for providing appropriate day to day supervision of a designated number of Community Reablement Assistants, to include supervision, observations and competency assessments.
The ability to work flexibly including weekends and unsocial hours, including bank holidays, and be able to travel around North Lincolnshire is essential
In addition following training you will be required to undertake prescribing of low level equipment across the service and act as a key trainer, providing moving and handling training and guidance to staff.
The role offers a fantastic work life balance through a 25 hour per week contract and as a Rehabilitation Officer you will be part of a fast paced and developing service that has opportunities for further development and progression. You will also be working for an employer who cares about your health and wellbeing and offers confidential employee welfare and excellent supervisory and peer support.
Home first is a values based employee meaning that our values of Care, Compassion, Communication, Competence, Courage, Commitment are not only reflected in the support we provide, but also how we work together to achieve positive outcomes. If you feel you have the right kind of values and want to be part of a special team that really does make a difference to people’s lives then we look forward to hearing from you
For more information of an informal chat please contact Lorna Wilkinson 01724 296834
Closing date 30/11/2024
We are collectively organised around the people and place of North Lincolnshire. Together we ensure that our communities are safe, well, prosperous and connected. We are ambitious for North Lincolnshire, we want our area to be the #BestPlace for our residents by being the #BestCouncil we can be. We achieve this through living our values – equality of opportunity, excellence, integrity and self-responsibility – in all that we do

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