Reablement Facilitator

**BON ACCORD CARE**
**JOB PROFILE**

**1 Job Details**

Job Title: Reablement Facilitator

Job Profile No:
Grade: Grade 13

Version Date: September 2017

**2 Job Purpose**

Throughout Aberdeen city you will lead a high standard of person centred care and support for service users in a range of appropriate settings, including their own homes. You will lead and develop a service to promote good outcomes for service users, families and staff.

**3 Reporting Relationships**

Manager

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**Reablement Facilitator**

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Occupational Therapy Assistant

**4 Outcomes**

**The post holder will be expected to**:

- Assess competence and the embedding of a Reablement ethos and best practice, across the fields of enablement rehabilitation and vocational rehabilitation
- Assessment and provision of minor adaptations which promote independent living
- Promotion of the role of Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Nursing in the specific areas or enablement, rehabilitation and vocational rehabilitation
- Promotion of a culture and ethos of enablement and rehabilitation by constructively challenging existing behaviours, attitudes and practices
- Prioritising and allocation of referrals in relation to rehabilitation and enablement to ensure the most appropriate use of service resources
- Assess, plan, monitor and evaluate enablement and rehabilitation service provision on an individual and team basis to ensure positive outcomes for service users
- Empowering service users (including staff) to adopt a pro-active and preventative approach to independent and functional living
- Lead the promotion and development of services to maximise meaningful activities and functioning of service users
- Liaising and working in partnership with a range of agencies and stakeholders
- Provide and develop services for the specific needs of service users including staff
- Ensure continued professional development and maintain a professional registration

**5 Tasks and Responsibilities**

**The post holder will be expected to undertake a range of tasks as appropriate to the role and responsibilities. These may include all or some of the following but are not restricted to**:
**Rehabilitation & Enablement Specific**
- Deliver an experiential enablement programme across a range of BAC settings
- Supporting the workforce to develop knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours consistent with an enablement and rehabilitation approach
- Promoting recovery and the overcoming of barriers to participation in daily activities, independent living
- Educating and promoting best practice in recording, documenting and record keeping of service user notes and support plans
- Assessment and provision of specialist equipment and minor adaptations to promote independent living.

**Vocational Rehabilitation Specific**:

- Educating and promoting a preventative and self-management approach to staff in order to maintain health and well-being
- Assessing the functional, psychological and emotional needs of staff and how this impacts on their work
- Promoting recovery and overcoming of barriers to participation in work through assessment and intervention

**Service Provision**
- Undertake clinical facilitation sessions with a range of appropriate staff to ensure best practices are followed in the areas of rehabilitation and enablement
- Assessment of service user needs
- Effective planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of plans to ensure service user needs are met
- Reviewing referrals and prioritising referrals and admissions effectively where appropriate
- Provide leadership and day to day management, advice, support and guidance to team members in order to meet the needs of the service

**Health and Safety**
- Responsibility for monitoring and ensuring health and safety of staff, service users, buildings/community
- Responsibility for the processing and notification of Accident and Incident Reporting

Forms where applicable
- Participation in ASP procedures and follow up on ASP Reporting Forms where applicable
- Ensure that all health and safety regulations are adhered to, including carrying out risk assessments and regular auditing so that a safe and secure environment is provided and maintained

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**Staffing**
- Providing guidance and support to staff from a range of services
- Monitoring the quality and impact of interventions

**Quality Assurance and Service Improvement**
- Take a lead in quality assurance processes including service user engagement and outcomes
- Development and improvement of the service
- Take a lead in implementing audit action plans
- Ensure compliance with requirements of regulatory bodies
- Respond proactively and timeously to concerns or complaints
- Monitor quality and consistency of service user risk assessments, plans and outcomes
- Ensure that services are delivered in accordance with relevant legislation, policies and procedures and national care standards and professional codes of practice

**Other Responsib