Job Title: Domiciliary Coordinator
Location: Blackheath, London, SE3 0PW
Salary: £14.97 per hour
Closing Date: Sunday, 29 May 2022
Interview Date: To be confirmed
Job Type: Permanent / Full-Time – 37.5 hours per week
About Morden College:
Morden College is a charity dedicated to supporting older people, providing them with residential care and residential nursing care if the need arises. We are a strong community, committed to enabling those we support to have the highest quality of life, for the rest of their lives. Our care services were graded Good in all 5 CQC inspection area ratings and we have been granted Hospitality Assured status.
We will provide you with a generous pension, 150 hours’ holiday plus pro-rata bank holidays, subsidised meals, free uniform, free onsite parking, and generous learning and development opportunities.
About the Role:
This role is to ensure that our residents are gaining the best domiciliary care and individuals are living the ‘good life’. Working in a stunning environment at Morden College you will bring fun, energy, and lots of laughter. You will oversee individual’s personal plans, implement initiatives to support their needs, embed schemes to promote community engagement and so much more!
Job Summary/Purpose:
- To lead a Domiciliary Team that support people to live the “good life” in independence by promoting dignity, independence, choice, and fulfilment within a policy of managed risk taking.
- Ensure that all staff and volunteers adopt and maintain a person-centred approach to the development and delivery of high-quality services and uphold the principle that each individual is at the centre of our services and the support they require.
- 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.
About You:
We are looking for someone to bring reliability, commitment, integrity, passion, and enthusiasm to the role that people using our service deserve. You will be yourself, have a sense of fun and take ownership of all aspects of your role, whilst being a positive role model for staff and an ambassador for Morden College.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
- Ensure that an individual’s personal plan promotes wellbeing and enables them to be as independent as possible, and that risks are managed by thinking creatively about options for safe solutions that enable individuals to do things that matter to them.
- In partnership with colleagues identify those people who are at risk of loneliness and social isolation, reduce and maintain a reduction in the risk of social isolation by implementing initiatives to facilitate, and support that aligns to the individual’s needs, aspirations, and concerns.
- Work together with the Health and Wellbeing Team and Clover Primary Care Service to ensure that where there are changes in a person’s health, that impacts on their wellbeing and or care and support needs this information is shared appropriately, and action taken to ensure timely interventions that enable the individual to continue to live safely in independence for as long as is possible
- Work in partnership colleagues to embed projects such as Compassionate Neighbours across all schemes to promote community engagement, aimed at helping beneficiaries to build connections with the wider community and to improve their physical and emotional wellbeing.
Note:
Due to high volumes of applications, we are unable to respond to applicants whose qualifications and/or experience do not meet the minimum requirements for the post.
This post is subject to an Enhanced with Barred List DBS check. Applicates must have the right to work in the UK.
Morden College is an equal opportunities employer
Please visit Morden College direct website to read the full job advert, the job description and the person specification before applying.
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Candidates with experience of; Senior Support Worker, Assistant Support manager, Senior Carer, Care Team Supervisor, Senior Care Worker, Support Worker, Carer, Care Support, Care Assistant, Social Worker, LSW, LSA, Support Assistant, Special Needs Support, Mental Health Support, Autism Support will be considered for this role.
