Living Made Easier Assessor
£33559.79 per annum
Cera Care Recruitment
Position: Living Made Easier Assessor
Reporting to: Registered Manager
Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time, 37.5hrs per week
Overall Objectives of the Post:
Our Home Care Service is responsible for a range of support for people with social care and health needs. The approach used by the service puts more focus on supporting people to regain or build daily living skills to remain independent and to live better lives.
Working in partnership with the Council we have introduced a Let's Talk Together approach, based on 3 conversations, which puts the person at the centre of their decision making, as experts in their own lives. You will support and enable people to explore the networks around them that can support:
• Their wellbeing
• Maintain and develop their independence
• Prevent, reduce, and delay needs
• Connect them to their community
• Build on their strengths and assets
The role of the Care and Support Assessor (CSA) will require collaborative working with Social Care, Health and other professionals and colleagues, delivering individualised support based on what each person needs, with continuous review of how needs are being met to provide the most proportionate support possible to maximise independence.
Key Tasks of the Post:
To use active listening skills, observation, and communication to build relationships with adults, their families and informal network supports.
To ensure all daily living activities are appropriately considered and addressed through provision of equipment, to reduce the need for support and enable appropriate items to be directly ordered.
To hold conversation's with the person to consider daily living and mobility needs, use recording form to guide discussion, or AskSARA self-assessment tool. Discuss general wellbeing needs and preventative support (AT etc).
To safeguard individuals in a way that supports them in making choices and having control in how they choose to live their lives, while identifying any risks involved. Ensuring that the 'Making Safeguarding Personal' ethos is at the heart of all practice.
To work directly with the person to support them to undertake an assessment of their needs using the Let's Talk Together approach and enabling them to identify the outcomes they wish to achieve, whilst maximising their independence and choice. This will involve drawing on the support of families and informal carers and adopting a strengths-based approach.
To understand the roles and accountabilities of other agencies and professionals to refer, liaise, consult and work effectively in order to meet identified needs.
To work with the person or carer to develop and agree a support plan to achieve the identified outcomes to meet assessed need.
Contribute to the reviews of support plans as required, ensuring the right level of support is delivered only for as long as is needed, advising the person and their carers of alternative options as appropriate.
Identify the most proportionate evidence-based support plan to safely meet ongoing needs, based on actual delivery times from Electronic Case Management data, to maximise independence and support outcomes being achieved.