Reablement Icrs Coordinator

**Job details**:
Job reference
- REQ3803

Date posted
- 21/02/2024

Application closing date
- 06/03/2024

Location
- The Neville Centre

Salary
- £26,421 - £28,770 Per Year

Package
- Total benefit value (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement): £39,229.51

Contractual hours
- 37

Basis
- Full time

Job category/type
- Adult Social Care

Attachments

job specification SA046 Reablement ICRS Co-ordinator 24.docx

**Reablement ICRS Coordinator**:
Job description

Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Fixed Term For 12 Months (parental leave cover)

The Reablement Service are a dedicated team, whose main goal is to enrich the lives of those returning home from hospital to ensure they maintain their independence and healthy living in a safe manner within the comfort of their own home. In addition, we’re responsible and accountable for the planning and programming of calls for both the Reablement Service and the Integrated Crisis Response Service, by using the Electronic Rostering and Monitoring system. Thus, providing timely performance data in terms of outcomes, unit cost and the quality of service provision.

As a Reablement Co-ordinator you’ll join a team of 80 plus, including: Front line staff, reablement assistants, officers, co-ordinators and administrative employees.

This post is full time 37 hours, on a 12 months fixed term contract. You’ll be based at the Neville Centre on Leicester General Hospital site. Working a mixture of morning 7.30am to 4.00pm and evening shifts 1.45pm to 10.15pm across a rota covering 7 days a week, this includes weekends, bank holidays and other public holidays.

**What you’ll be doing**

As a Reablement Coordinator, you’ll be instrumental in the planning of all support visits within the Reablement Service across the Leicester area to allow people to remain as independent within their own homes as possible, to avoid hospital admissions, reduce ongoing support and to live with respect and dignity.

You’ll be in contact with co-workers and front-line staff regarding the visits they are completing which will need to be recorded in a timely and accurate manner. You’ll be held accountable for sending feedback reports to allocated case responsible staff, depicting the actions taken such as, cancellations due to hospitalisation or other reasons of visits.

In addition, you’ll receive all incoming referrals into the Reablement and Integrated Crisis Response Service. Working as part of the Home First Locality Decisions Unit, help facilitate hospital discharges through a strengths-based approach.

**What you will need**

As a Reablement Co-ordinator you’ll need to be disciplined with yourself, have excellent organisation and IT skills. You must be able prioritise your workload and be able to work under pressure in a busy and often difficult job role.

In addition, you’ll have great interpersonal skills. You’ll be able to communicate effectively to a wide range of people from varied and diverse backgrounds, ethnicities, and educations in both verbal and written contexts. As a confident person you’ll be able to match your approach to the needs of each individual as they are encountered with a flexible and no-nonsense approach.

Previous coordination experience within a social care setting is desirable.

**What we can offer you**

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including childcare vouchers, discounts on city buses and trains and help with relocation to Leicester, where appropriate.

**Join us**

We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city.

**If short-listed, you'll be called for an assessment and/or interview on week commencing 18th March