Peripatetic Community Care Worker (BCG0015)

Bay Care has a proven track record of dynamic working in close partnership with Torbay & South Devon NHS Trust, to develop and improve support services for adults requiring social care in their own homes. The Peripatetic Night Service is an example of this dynamic working, which will provide focussed roaming 'night-time' support and assistance to vulnerable adults with planned or urgent social care needs.

The Peripatetic Night Service will provide an immediately available care support service to people in their own homes, during the late night/early morning - and will have a number of main overall aims and objectives, including:

 To reduce/prevent the number of hospital admissions or residential care placements

 To support the safe discharge home following hospital admissions and placements in other residential settings.

 To provide specific or urgent or time critical care support to individuals, to reduce the demand on other community and emergency service resources.

The Peripatetic Night Service will be based and operate from the Bay Care main office, with 2x Twilight Community Care Workers on duty between the hours of 20:00pm and 08:00am daily.

Job Purpose: To work as part of a small team of peripatetic community care workers to provide additional flexible 'out-of-hours' support resources to the wider local adult social care service. Members of this team will support the work and responsibilities of Bay Care Community Discharge Team (CDT) as well as specialist teams within Torbay & South Devon NHS Trust.

These include: The Emergency Duty Service (EDT), Rapid Response Team (RRT), Adult Social Care Teams for Torbay, and the Complex Care and Intermediate Care Teams. Members of the Peripatetic Night Service team will carry out home visits to provide a range of person-centred care and support to vulnerable adults who may be physically frail or unwell, physically disabled including people with sensory impairment or living with dementia. This service will also provide social care and support to individuals who have been tested positive for Covid19 and others who require sensitive 'End-of-Life' care.

Main Duties & Responsibilities: To provide a flexible home visiting response (double-up visits by x2 members of staff at all times) to individuals living within Torbay in response to any/all referrals or requests received. To provide care and support to individuals which promotes and maximises their dignity, independence and rights to choice and control over the way their care is provided. To provide care and support will based on individual client/patient need and care plans. This will include (but not limited to):

 Supporting and stabilising a return home following a hospital discharge or community placement and environmental safety checks

 Welfare and security checks

 Vital signs monitoring and recording (using the RESTORE2 escalation tool)

 Mental wellbeing reassurance visits  Assistance with taking prescribed medication and completion of eMAR records

 Support with toileting and continence management

 Assistance with personal hygiene

 Providing mobility assistance, transfers, in-bed turning

 Skin integrity/pressure sore monitoring and support: and completion of 'body maps' when required.

Support with food and fluid intake

 Assistance and support following non-urgent non-injury falls, including the use of ELK Emergency Lifting Cushions To maintain timely, accurate records of all client/patient visits and contacts and detailed summaries of all care support provided at each visit. (Mobizio client records system) To provide a detailed, end-of-shift handover to Bay Care daytime staff and managers.