Hospital to Home Coordinator - North & East Cornwall
Hospital to Home Coordinator - North & East Cornwall
This is an exciting opportunity to work across the Charitable and Voluntary Sector, making a difference to people’s lives in North and East Cornwall. We welcome applications from people who are flexible and adaptable, with a curiosity about people and a strong desire to form trusting relationships with our clients and communities.
We are seeking someone with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to form positive working relationships with a wide range of people. Organised and accurate coupled with the IT skills to confidently record clients and referrals on to digital databases and systems, such as CharityLog and Strata. Finding opportunities for some of the most vulnerable in our community, to age well in their homes and communities.
We aim to support our clients in a person-centred, holistic and creative approach with a clear focus on – What Matters to You?
Outcomes
Working within the hubs and across the community of North and East Cornwall, this role will help empower and support older people out of hospital and back into their home and local community. In this role you will enhance the lives of older people by working with assessors and hub leads to coordinate their discharge support and seek opportunities to aid them in making good health and wellbeing choices and build good health and prevention messaging. The post holder will accept and allocate referrals from various partners, visiting and meeting clients in their home to carry out assessments, developing and maintaining good working relationships with the community and local organisations with the aim of ageing well and living life better.
If you are interested and want to know more, call Lucy Downing on 01326 316880, or the HR Team on 01872 266881 for a chat or via email: HR.Team@ageukcornwall.org.uk. As an organisation, we encourage flexible working patterns and are open to making reasonable adjustments. Talk to us about the flexibility and adjustments you need, and we will explore what’s possible for the role.
Background
Since 2022, Age UK Cornwall & The Isles of Scilly, Partners (including Chaos Group, Volunteer Cornwall, Cornwall Neighbourhoods for Change, and others) and Integrated Care Board have been working together to improve access to services, with the aim of reducing demand on acute services. Our partnership supports the community, coordinating holistic solutions to local challenges. This partnership and collaboration ensure that we have greater engagement and reach within local communities, helping the right people at the right time and developing innovative results. Volunteers are a key element to this.
We believe in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging. We want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge group think.
We are especially interested in people whose experiences of life (on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBTQ+ or living with a disability) help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it.
We will give you the opportunity to make a difference in our future and the opportunity to be part of our close-knit and friendly organisation. We also provide an excellent training programme that supports your personal development. Importantly, if you have ideas, we will listen and work with you to implement improvements. By joining us you can make a real difference to people in later life.
Hours of Work: 22 hours per week
Salary: £14,468.86 per annum (£24,334 FTE)
Work Base: Hybrid role, peripatetic, based in North and East Cornwall and offering outreach assessments within client’s homes.
Traveling is an essential part of the role. You will need to be able to travel independently to and from client’s homes as and when required, meeting our aspirations in supporting clients in North and East Cornwall.
Duration: Fixed term for 12 months
DBS: This role is subject to a Standard DBS check.
Benefits
- Holiday: 30 days (including bank holidays) pro rata plus 3 extra days for your first year.
- Your holiday entitlement increases 1-day pro-rata a year up to a maximum of +8 days pro-rata
- Healthy Workplace Scheme
- Cycle and Tech Scheme
- Health Benefits Scheme
- Blue Light Card Rewards
- Age UK discounts app
- Work mobile and email
- High levels of line management and peer support
- Travel time and mileage expenses in-between clients
- Varied roles
- Rewarding and purposeful - Adding value to people’s lives
Application Deadline: Tuesday 18th February 2025
To apply:
Application Form: https://forms.office.com/r/2zM8NdMn2g
CVs and cover letters are not required but can be submitted to support your application if you wish. If you need any support with your application or require your application in a certain format, please don't hesitate to contact us.
To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.
The organisation is positive about employing people with disabilities. We know there’s a wealth of talent among people who have a disability as well as those who have experience of mental or physical health challenges. So, if you need any support with your application or if you require your application in a different format please just give us a call on 01872 266881.
If you choose to disclose a disability on your application form and you meet the essential criteria set out in the person specification, we commit to inviting you to an interview.