Assessment & Intervention Practitioner

**About The Role**:
**Community Integrated Care is currently seeking an experienced **Assessment & Intervention Practitioner** to join our regional Operations Team in the North West on a full-time, permanent basis**

Our Assessment & Intervention Practitioners partner our front-line leaders, providing great support, coaching, and advice so all our colleagues have the skills, knowledge, and help available to do what they do best - enabling the people we support to live the **best** **life** **possible**.

**Day to Day**

Travelling to multiple sites across the North West region, you can be based in either Cumbria, Merseyside, Wigan, Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire with an element of working remotely.

As part of the local Operations Team you’ll be the go-to local expert on assessing individual needs and coaching the support team to translate this into amazing Care and Support Plans which enable the People We Support to live their best life possible. You’ll report to the Lead Assessment and Intervention Practitioner and the team will be led by our Director of Service Innovation. Day to day you’ll be:

- Having brilliant conversations - working with local leaders and their teams to really understand their services, what they need, and coaching them to find great solutions
- Visiting the people we support, our leaders, and colleagues in services
- Delivering innovative training to teams to embed the core principles around person centred care
- Driving cultural change within services to ensure the people we support can live their best lives possible
- Working within services coaching teams to embed best practice
- Coach a cohort of Service Leaders to support them in achieving their goals with their team:

- to assess and identify areas for improvement in the Assessment and Care and Support Plans and to understand why each section is so important, impacting the quality of life for the person supported.
- to create realistic and achievable improvement actions plans that work towards to embedding the REACH standards into daily practices.
- to develop their teams in what is expected, best practice, the ability to recognise what good looks like and how to achieve that through promoting good habits and reflective practices
- Provide constructive challenge and feedback to Service Leaders, sharing their expertise and experience to support their development

**About You**:

- You are a brilliant communicator - you find it easy to explain things in a way that is easy for others to understand
- You would describe yourself as a people person - you build relationships quickly, and find it easy to talk to anyone
- You enjoy coaching others and supporting people to achieve
- You are looking for a varied role where no two days are the same

**Skills and Experience**
- You’ll have experience of working with people with a learning disability and/or mental health issues
- You’ll have experience of coaching and developing others
- Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with individuals who have experienced trauma or with people who present with self-harming or aggressive behaviours
- You will be used to working across multiple sites
- You will need to have a full UK driving licence

**Working for Us**:
**What is The Deal for you?**
- **Flexibility **You can work your full time hours over 4 days and enjoy a long weekend, or work over 5 days to accommodate your other commitments.
- **Competitive Salary**:£26,000 - £28,000 (dependent upon experience)
- **Pension**: contributory pension scheme
- **Benefits**: retail discounts, holiday discounts, cycle to work scheme and travel discounts through our benefits app
- **Best Lives Possible**: You'll be working for an award winning charity who is passionate about ensuring our colleagues and the people we support lead the best lives possible
- **Development**: We'll work with you to develop your career or to learn and experience new things. We're passionate about developing our people
- **Support**: From our Employee Assistance Programme (available 24/7), financial support options, and wellbeing fund you'll have the support available to lead an easier (financial) life

**Interested and want to know a bit more?