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Independent Care Home Trusted Assessor

Location: Leicester

Salary: Negotiable dependant on experience

The Role

As part of their ongoing commitment to improve the discharge process for patients transferring to Residential and Nursing Homes following a stay in acute hospitals, the organisation are looking to appoint an additional Care Home Trusted Assessor.

You will support residents primarily at the hospital but there may be some travelling to support the other hospitals across Leicestershire. This ensures they are part of an integrated team of Health and Social Care Staff, and will liaise with local residential and nursing homes, including visiting them as needed.

They are looking to appoint a motivated recruit who has experience and may have a nursing qualification as well as experience within the management of elderly residential care and would like to become a trailblazer to support the safer Hospital Discharge as a Care Home Trusted Assessor team part time or full time.

The primary responsibility of the Care Home Trusted Assessor is to act as an independent and unbiased assessor on behalf of care homes in relation to undertaking assessments, beyond the statutory, that need to meet the needs of the individual. Other responsibilities include liaising with the care home to obtain information about the patient and facilitate flowof information between the hospital, the home, Adult Social Care and the Discharge team.

Skills and Qualifications

You will need excellent communication and influencing skills as well as a passion for placing the individual at the centre of decisions about care.

The candidate they are searching for needs to be able to adapt to changes in health and social care, be a team player, have outstanding communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to undertake complex assessments of care.

Essential:

• NMC Registered Nurse with an active Pin number
• At least 5 years’ experience in Health and Social Care

Desirable:

• Care Home Management including Nursing
• Worked in Elderly Social Care

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for this reputable organisation, then please do not hesitate to apply.