Homefirst Assessor

**Homefirst Assessor - South Kerrier**:
**Band 6**:
**Main area**
- Homefirst Assessor
- **Grade**
- Band 6
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time
- Part time

37.5 hours per week (will involve weekend working)
- **Job ref**
- 201-24-289**Site**
- Camborne Health Office
- **Town**
- Camborne
- **Salary**
- £35,392 - £42,618 Pro rata/per annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- 21/05/2024 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**
- _Care based on what matters to people. _
- _Care provided at home or close to home. _
- _Improvement through learning, research and innovation. _
- _Prevention and alternatives to hospital._

**_Great Organisation_**
- _Buildings that support health and wellbeing. _
- _Technology enabled care. _
- _Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services. _
- _Safe, efficient, effective and productive._

**_Great People_**
- _A place people love to work and feel valued. _
- _Living our values with staff (all voices count). _
- _Attract, grow and develop talent. _
- _Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen._

**_Great Partner_**
- _Encourage and enable effective partnerships. _
- _Joined-up community services. _
- _Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities. _
- _Reduce our impact on the environment._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:

- An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and experienced Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist to join the South Kerrier HomeFirst team, as a Homefirst Assessor based in Helston Community Hospital. _
- This position is open to Nurses, Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists who have experience of working in the community and wish to develop their assessment, care planning and reablement skills whilst being part of a dynamic, progressive, integrated multiagency, multidisciplinary team. _
- The Homefirst team is part of the integrated community team in South Kerrier comprising of registered and non-registered nursing, therapy and administrative staff working collaboratively with partner organisations to support the intermediate care needs of our local population. _
- You will be responsible for assessment, planning and implementation of care and assist in the interpretation of information relevant to the patient’s condition/progress, identify problems and needs of patient and set realistic goals. You will need to have excellent organisational skills combined with a wide knowledge base and experience of working in older person’s services. _

**Main duties of the job**:

- To provide a high standard Occupational, Physio therapy and Nursing to the service, performing advanced assessments of patients including those with highly complex presentations, and from this formulating a diagnosis and treatment plan.
- To operate as an advanced practitioner being first contact for urgent requests to help both prevent hospital admission and facilitate early discharge.
- To utilise advanced skills in community assessment and management of the acutely sick patient.
- To provide leadership for support staff and junior staff through supervision, training and appraisal.
- To participate in the planning and development of occupational services within the designated team.
- Model and deliver excellent evidence based clinical care, working as an autonomous Practitioner.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful par