Homefirst Assessor

**Homefirst Assessor**:
**Band 6**:
**Main area**
- Homefirst Assessor
- **Grade**
- Band 6
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Part time - 18 hours per week (Weekend working required)
- **Job ref**
- 201-23-536**Site**
- Home First East Team
- **Town**
- Saltash
- **Salary**
- £33,706 - £40,588 Pro Rata
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- 20/04/2023 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_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _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**:
Working in Cornwall is brilliant. Lively towns, lovely beaches, swim, surf, sail, explore the countryside, join in the festivals, have an excellent work and life balance.

An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic health practitioner to join the Homefirst Team. This position is open to a nurse or Occupational Therapist who has experience of working in the community or hospital settings and wishes to develop their assessment and rehabilitation skills.

You will be supported to develop whilst being part of a dynamic, progressive, multi-disciplinary team. The Team in East-Cornwall work closely with partnership organisations to support the intermediate health needs of our local population. The team are key to supporting discharges from hospital settings and preventing admission to hospital. You will be responsible for the assessment, planning and implementation of reablement and care. You will assist in the interpretation of relevant information, identifying problems and needs of a person and setting realistic goals. You will have excellent organisational skills combined with a wide knowledge base and experience of working with older persons, the community or hospital services.

**18 hours are available but negotiable.**

Come and join our great team in a truly great place to live and work.

**Main duties of the job**:
To provide a high standard of Occupational Therapy or Nursing Skills to the service, performing specialist assessments of patients including those with highly complex presentations, and from this formulating a diagnosis and treatment and/or rehabilitation plan.

To operate as a specialist practitioner being first contact for urgent requests to help both prevent hospital admission and facilitate early discharge.

To utilise specialist 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 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