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The Home First Team is an integrated clinical and care and support service that provides short term reablement intervention to enable people to maximise their independence and meet their health and social care needs within Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT).
The service seeks to offer support to people ranging from those that need minimal support for a time limited period to rebuild confidence, learn new skills and relearn skills through to people at the end of their life requiring skilled health & social care interventions. The service operates 7am to 10pm 365 days per year.
The post holder will be responsible for the scheduling and allocating care calls on the Complex Discharge Tracker System. They will be working in partnership with the Home First Locality Teams to ensure that all referrals are allocated care calls within the discharge to assess timescales. They will ensure that the Complex Discharge Tracker system is validated and updated within each locality teams.
The post holder will be expected to commute to the office bases across North Staffordshire, if required.
The shift patterns are on a rotational basis over 7 days, early shift 7am – 3pm and late shift 12pm – 8pm working 2 weekends a month, therefore flexibility is required for this role.
Full duties can be found within the Job Description
The successful applicant will receive direct line management and will be delegated team work priorities from the Home First Shift Leads. The post holder will be enthusiastic, passionate and a dynamic individual. You will need to be motivated, flexible and an effective team player, in order to prioritise and implement effective negotiation and communication skills.
Review all daily Home First referrals with the Locality Teams and ensure that all patients are allocated the appropriate care calls within the discharge to assess appropriate referral timescale.
Ensure that all Home First referrals from the acute portals are immediately sourced and prioritised throughout the working day.
Attend all CDT training and briefing sessions as the system evolves.
Ensure that any and all updates recorded in CDT are accurate before entering them. Ensure that any identified mistakes are corrected immediately.
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;
Supporting your career development and progression
Excellent NHS Pension scheme
Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
Options for flexible working
Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
Free car parking at all trust sites
Free flu vaccinations every year
Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications
This vacancy is only open at this stage to internal employees of the following organisations within the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care System:
Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust.
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust.
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, inclusive of Black Country Procurement Group and North Midlands and Cheshire Pathology Service.
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board.
For an in depth overview of the role, then please refer to the Job Description and person specification in terms of the attributes required.
