Domiciliary Care Coordinator

Job Title: Domiciliary Care Coordinator

Location: Blackheath

Salary: £14.97 per hour

Job Type: 36 hours per week – Full Time

Our most valuable resource are the people within Morden College; they provide the supportive, caring and inclusive environment both for colleagues and for our Residents. Our culture encourages and supports creativity, celebrates our differences and the similarities that draw us together as a community and promote the highest standards of individual behaviour and accountability in everything we do.

Morden College is a charity that is dedicated to enabling a life-lived independence for the older people they provide homes for, through life, as they grow older. Morden College has enriched the lives of its residents as well as their families, over the last 300 years. The Charity’s core purpose is to provide older people who are in need with a home for life within it’s beautiful grounds, with amazing facilities and surrounded by its caring people, who work tirelessly to provide the highest quality of care.

Our Charity’s Community Services are provided in the Almshouse accommodation at Blackheath and at Ralph Perring Court in Beckenham, through the vibrant communal space in the John Morden Centre and the case management approach that proactively identifies, assesses, and supports the most vulnerable in our community. Our residential care home, Cullum Welch Court (“CWC”), provides personal nursing and dementia care 24/7. With 32 beds, it is small enough to maintain a personalised service to its residents, yet large enough to provide the facilities required to meet their range of needs.

Morden College is regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Job Summary/Purpose:

To lead a Domiciliary Care Team that support people to live the ‘Good Life’ in independence by promoting dignity, choice, independence, and fulfilment within a policy of managed risk taking. To implement and coordinate an efficient and effective domiciliary care service. Maintaining a person-centred approach to the development of personal plans that promote independence, safety, and high-quality care.

To ensure the Domiciliary Care Team work flexibly to meet people’s fluctuating requirements for care and support, enabling the flexible use of resources. To provide practical support to the Domiciliary Care Team, assisting our residents with personal care, domestic help, and other general tasks such as shopping and medication when required.

Key Duties & Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• To implement a Domiciliary Care Service for people living in independence through timely interventions and a coordinated approach.
• Work with individuals to make sure that their personal plans promote wellbeing and enable them to be as independent as possible, managing risks by thinking creatively about options for safe solutions.
• Implement an efficient and effective domiciliary care coordination system for people living in independence to ensure their individual needs are met through timely interventions, by care workers who have the right skills, knowledge, and attitude to enable individuals to live in independence for as long as is possible.
• Facilitate excellent partnership working between the Health and Wellbeing Team, Cullum Welch Court and Clover General Practice being supportive and inclusive and encouraging a culture of mutual respect.
• Raise awareness and educate others on how to apply the principles of the Mental Capacity Act (2005) to protect people who lack capacity and maximise their ability to participate in decision-making.
• Be a care coordinator for specific individuals, monitoring their physical, psychological, and social care needs, wellbeing, and personal preferences to ensure that where interventions are required to support their living in independence these are implemented in a timely manner.

The Candidate:

• Care Certificate.
• QCF Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care.
• Ability to use Microsoft office applications and digital care plan software systems
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in a healthcare setting or other experience of supporting older people.
• Experience of managing/supervising staff
• Experience of managing rotas and covering staff absence
• Knowledge of current legislation and codes of practice when providing services for older people
• Understanding of mental capacity and depravation of liberty safeguards
• Experience of assessing the needs and risks of people living in their own homes

Benefits:

• 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, additional holidays for long service and during Christmas.
• Enhanced pension
• Subsidised meals
• Free onsite parking
• 24/7 employee assistance programme
• Life assurance and flexible working.

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Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Support Worker, Care Worker, Night Care Assistant, Care Assistant, Domiciliary Care Assistant, Senior Care Assistant, Team Leader, Care Work Assistant, Resident Care Assistant, Resident Care Worker, Elderly Care Worker, Elderly Care Assistant, Elderly Support Worker, Elderly Care, Support Assistant, Enabler, Healthcare Assistant may also be considered for this role.