Carers Practitioner

Job information Carers Practitioner from the Company Hertfordshire CC, this latest Carers Practitioner job vacancy is located in the city Stevenage. This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate . Job Vacancies in this Healthcare field have been opened and published up to the specified time.

Job Description :

About the team

We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed Carer’s practitioner to join our Integrated Discharge team based at Lister Hospital supporting Carers within their caring role with a focus on giving good quality information and advice to carers whilst their cared for person is in an acute hospital and when they leave the hospital. This may include financial, benefits advice, signposting and helping them be recognised, respected, and heard as carers.

About the role

You can make a significant difference to the lives of our patients and their carers by providing support, advice, guidance and respite incorporating risk reduction, safeguarding and positive risk taking. You will provide a carers assessment using;

• Analytical skills to inform assessments, decision-making and intervention
• Assessing and supporting carers, promoting creative solutions including direct payments and contingency planning
• Support planning to ensure that outcomes identified at assessment are met through the provision of support, equipment, minor adaptations and enabling programmes
• Actively engaging with carers as individuals and through organisations and community groups. Where necessary undertake carers assessments and provide relevant information, advice and appropriate support
• Working in partnership and developing relationships with local community groups, organisations and community members (in all settings) to achieve positive outcomes for Hertfordshire carers and citizens
• Professional skills to inform assessment, decision making and interventions in line with professional expectation and supports others to do the same

You will;

• Ensure effective safeguarding and risk management
• Addresses adversity and social exclusion
• Promote independence and autonomy
• Look to prevention and early intervention where appropriate
• Demonstrate HCC Values and Behaviours and Professional Standards
• Have a Professional understanding of the care act within your general responsibilities

You will ensure effective safeguarding and risk management, when an adult is at risk of social exclusion. Assisting people to deal with adverse circumstances such as: poor health, poverty, inadequate living conditions; as well as maximising the strength of individuals, their families and their communities.

You will actively promote Equality and Diversity and challenge discrimination.

Carer Practitioners will endorse and act in accordance with the principles of patient personalisation, ensuring that care and support are person-centred and as far as possible put the people with whom they work in control of their lives. In doing so they will carry out assessments of need, plan and deliver services and review outcomes with the individual, their personal networks and support providers.

Our Carer Practitioners will ensure their practice is responsive, inclusive and community based with a clear focus on outcomes.

About you

As an experienced CCO or carer you will have demonstratable experience on your CV including;

• Professional understanding of the care act within your general responsibilities
• Knowledge of the human rights act and how the laws protect the adults in your care
• Ability to work within multidiscipline teams
• Solid report writing skills
• A passion for what you do and care for the people you support

As Carers practitioner, the successful candidate will uphold, promote, and advocate the principles of personalisation ensuring that carers are at the centre of the care and support plans.

Our carers practitioner will ensure their practice is responsive, inclusive and acute and community based with a clear focus on outcomes for carers that they support.

The Carers practitioner will work with and develop links with external partners to undertake Carer’s assessments and develop links with community resources and partners to achieve personalised, enabling care and support for people of Hertfordshire to maintain and promote strengths and independence within our communities.

The successful applicant will carry out face to face carers assessments both in hospital settings and in the community.

In doing so, they will carry out Carer’s assessments of need, plan and deliver services in line with the Carers identified outcomes and review these with the individual to ensure they are supported to sustain their caring role and achieve their own desired outcomes.

How to apply

As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.

Additional information

Disability Confident We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

Safeguarding This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.

Driving required You’ll need to have the ability to drive and/or travel around Hertfordshire, either using your own mode of transport or a company car to travel to other locations.

English Fluency The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.

Job Reference: HCC24788