Job overview
The Home First service provides short-term, responsive, and flexible support aimed at helping individuals regain and maintain independence in their own homes.
The service plays a crucial role in preventing unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitating timely hospital discharges. Working in close collaboration with social care (KCC), community health teams, and acute hospitals, Home First supports patients during transition periods by offering enablement-focused care.
The service aligns with national integrated care strategies and is underpinned by a person-centred approach, empowering individuals to achieve outcomes that promote recovery, autonomy, and well-being in their home environments.
Main duties of the job
The Senior Assessor plays a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, person-centred care within the Home First service.
They provide advanced assessment, complex case management, and operational support, while also guiding and developing colleagues to maintain excellence across the team.
Working for our organisation
Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent
We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences
We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission
The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). Nursing vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses.
As a community Trust, many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment. If you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team quoting the vacancy reference number, so we can support you further.
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.
At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Level 3 Diploma in Health & Social Care or equivalent
2. Working Towards Level 5 qualifications
3. Holding or willingness to work towards Qualified NVQ Assessor
4. GCSE English & Maths (Grade C/4 or above) or equivalent
5. Bachelor’s degree (BA/BSc), NVQ Level 6, or equivalent
6. Moving & Handling Train the Trainer qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
7. Background in Adult Social Care and or Health Care or previous first line supervisor/line management experience
8. Experience of supervising staff
9. Experience of working to contract specifications and delivery to required standards
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
10. Ability to undertake and document formal risk assessments
11. Ability to accurately assess client needs
12. Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of staff, people using the service and external contacts as required by the job
13. Ability to prioritise own workload in line with operational procedures and standards
14. Ability to monitor effectively others’ work performance
15. Proven administrative skills
16. Excellent negotiating and interpersonal skills
17. Ability to deliver services within budget and to contractual specification
18. Ability to promote the service in full
19. Ability to travel to meet the requirements of the service
20. Ability and commitment to support the Directorate’s Equality and Diversity Policy Statement, which is an integral part of the Directorate’s service delivery and relationship with the client to respect people as individuals regardless of age, ethnic origin, cultural values, disability, gender, sexual orientation or religion
21. This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
22. Staff will be expected to work within national legislation and Corporate and Directorate policies and procedures relating to Health & Safety and those applicable to Health
23. Appreciation of Diplomas in the management of care and relevant assessment techniques.
24. Comprehensive awareness and understanding of the outcomes as set out in the Health & Social Care Act 2008.
25. Awareness of overall policies/procedures of department
26. Excellent understanding of enablement and how it fits the assessment process
27. Thorough awareness of legislative framework relating to the provision of enablement and domiciliary services
28. In depth knowledge of Safeguarding (Adult Protection) issues and need to promptly refer any concerns to Line Manager
29. Awareness of Data Protection and confidentiality issues
30. Awareness of and compliance with KCC equality and diversity policies, procedures and legislation
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
31. Full, valid UK driving licence, or a full, valid driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country licence). KCHFT & KCC are committed to making reasonable adjustments so whilst this job requires the jobholder to drive your application will still be considered if you are unable to drive due to a disability
Ability to Manage
Essential criteria
32. Ability to manage own time effectively
33. Ability to prioritise care delivery in a professional manner, considering health and social care policies and procedures
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