Reablement Assistants

Part Time / Up to 30 Hours Per Week / Fixed Term for 12 Months

Would you like to be part of a team who aim to make the transition from hospital to home easier for the residents of Leicester City?

We’re currently looking to hire a number of Reablement Assistants who will play an integral role in supporting the residents of Leicester City who have recently left/are due to leave hospital after ill-health. The Reablement Service are a small dedicated team, whose main goal is to enrich the lives of those returning home to ensure they maintain their independence and healthy living in a safe manner within the comfort of their own home.

As a Reablement Assistant you’ll be required to work alone, mostly, travelling in your own car within Leicester City to the hospital and residents own homes however, at times your caseloads will link with other Reablement staff and other professionals. You’ll work alongside other members of the Reablement team (Assistants, Officers, Coordinators) to provide short-term support for people within their own home. You will be expected to link in with other professionals through face-to-face conversation and telephone correspondents (Doctors/GPs, Physios, Therapist and Nursing staff) for a multidisciplinary and joined up Home First offer. In addition, you’ll attend supervision and meeting periods within The Neville Centre.

We have positions available on a fixed term contract of 12 months. Hours will be based on a flexible rota working mornings and evenings 7 days a week, this includes every weekend, bank holidays and other public holidays. Shift work across 7 days, shifts a mixture of 08:00 - 13:00 and 17:00 - 22:00 Hours of contracts can be 12, 18, 24 and 30 but targeted to services short-falls during the week and weekends. Shifts for 24 and 30 hours primarily split shifts of AM and PM in one day. 12 and 18 hours are generally morning shifts.

What you’ll be doing

As a Reablement Assistant you’ll support people on their Reablement/ICRS journey to independent living. Your daily tasks will be care based in nature, including but not limited to supporting individuals with their:

• personal care (washing/dressing)

• mobility

• transfers

• medication management.

In addition, you’ll be expected to accurately document and record records of care provided, reporting levels of functioning, improvements, and concerns. This includes contributing to a daily written record of the persons progress ensuring that all records are accurate and a true reflection of the intervention.

All tasks are to be completed with upmost confidence and professionalism to be able to meet the expectations of a CQC regulated service.

What you’ll need

The ideal candidate will be a confident care giver with experience of working within a health or social care setting, specifically those that include the provision of care to adults and older people with complex needs (for example: a physical disability, a learning difficulty or a mental health diagnosis).

As a lot of this work involves lone working, you’ll need to be disciplined with yourself, have excellent organisation skills in order to 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.

Overall, you’ll be an eager candidate who is keen to learn and ready to take on new skills within a short period of time in order to consistently perform highly alongside their team/service to offer a service to individuals that is safe, timely and compassionate.

Due to the nature of the role you'll need a full driving licence. This post is also subject to an Enhanced DBS check.

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. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at out benefits calculator.

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. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.

For an informal conversation please contact Oliver O’Neil- Turner at [email protected]