Jobs

Posted 117 days ago

The Barnet Group is currently seeking to recruit Reablement workers with knowledge of supporting individuals within their own home. Reablement aims to provide support to people to remain living at home, to achieve maximum independence, and to prevent readmission to hospital.

The Barnet Group is a local authority trading company (LATC) that was created in February 2012. It is wholly owned by the London Borough of Barnet. Across the Group we employ around 1,000 staff, providing a range of services to people who live in council-owned homes, people who are homeless or facing homelessness, care and support clients from Barnet and other local authorities, and private customers. We are a not-for-profit organisation, which means that any income we generate is reinvested into building and maintaining homes, improving our public services, and supporting communities.

Supporting individuals in their own home to maximise their independence. Individuals will have identified goals and your role will be supporting people to re-learn self-care skills and live independently. This is a short-term service approximately 6 weeks and within this time you will be responsible for monitoring progress or identifying needs and reporting back.

We are looking for someone who has the following skills and attributes: To work with individuals within their home on their own to provide a consistent level of care and support Knowledge of how to support people to regain everyday living skills including but not restricted to personal care, supporting individuals with shopping, cooking, and maintaining their household tasks Ability to support people to regain their confidence to carry out day to day activities in their home Ability to support people to manage their health and wellbeing, taking medication, making appointments etc; Good communication skills, ensuring confidentiality is maintained in all aspects of work

You will receive a Flexible benefit allowance of 5% of your base salary. Flexible benefits are hosted by AON and will allow you to choose from a variety of benefits.

nathan.cole@camden.gov.uk