Department
Department of Adult Social
Division
Personal Assessment and
Services
Planning
Designation
Short Term Break and Carers Break
Grade
Post No
of Post
Manager
PO 1
Responsible
Pam Shearwood, Team Manager, Learning Disabilities
to
Immediate
None
Subordinates
INTRODUCTION & JOB PURPOSE
In Wirral we are developing and promoting a new offer for social care through
personalisation, with the key aims of promoting independence, well being and
choice for people who use services and their carers. As part of this change,
the introduction of personal budgets provides opportunities for people to
consider a wider range of options for meeting their social care needs. In the
area of respite and short-term break care this includes:
•
Respite care or short-term care – carer on short-term break from the person
they care for
•
Cared for person on short term break from their carers and or accessing
services in their own right
•
Those individuals who need a short-term break from their circumstances to
prevent deterioration of their condition.
To develop the market and promote access to a wider range of options for
short-term breaks, a skilled and appropriately qualified manager is required.
They will have extensive knowledge of commissioning and contracting in adult
social care and direct experience of working with social care providers. This
newly created post in the Department of Adult Social Services aims to
transform support arrangements for respite care, short term breaks and
services for carers and develop a bespoke advice, placement and
commissioning service to people wanting to access short-term breaks.
SUMMARY OF MAIN DUTIES
1
To contribute to the development of the market for respite care, short-term
breaks and carers services across Wirral both internally and externally.
2
To cost evaluate and implement quality assurance markers for the external
provision of this service, ensuring that any issues are brought to the attention
of line management and the Strategic Leadership team, including collating
feedback from carers and users
3
To contribute to planning, commissioning and design of new services for short
term breaks and services for service users and carers
4
To develop and review business options to stimulate and reshape the market
for respite care and short-term breaks, taking into account the future needs of
the service
5
To develop systems and procedures for the timely access and commissioning
of short term breaks
6
To contribute to the review of personal budgets with specific reference to
expanding the range of choice for respite care and short-term breaks
7
To secure efficiencies through the effective streamlining of procurement
systems for respite and short-term breaks.
8
To design, develop and provide an advice and information facility for the
availability of services for short-term breaks and respite care services
9
To lead and project manage new initiatives for the development of short term
breaks
10
To work directly with social care practitioners on matching self-directed
assessments of need and support plans to the availability of short-term break
and respite care services for people who use services and their carers.
11
To work with Carers groups to develop services for their use
12
Design
, Develop, Establish and Maintain a data base of resources for respite
care and short break services across the borough of different service
providers in the public, voluntary and community sectors, ensuring that it is
available to people who use services and/or their carers and professional
colleagues
13
To Design, Develop and Maintain a framework that matches the profile of
requests for short-term breaks/respite care with service resources available.
14
Provide an advice
and signposting service to people who use services in
receipt of personal budgets/direct payments who wish to make their own
arrangements to cover respite care, or who self fund their own care
15
Arrange short break provision for carers and people who use services and are
in receipt of personal budgets/direct payments/managed budgets
16
To establish networks with relevant providers and establish a protocol for
communication in order that they can advise of availability of vacancies.
17
To develop systems for choosing and booking respite care services that are
timely and can be accessed at short notice if required, including developing a
late booking service
18
To establish and maintain with key partner agencies and ensure resources
are shared where appropriate and effectively targeted in the delivery of respite
care
19
To confirm availability of services in the following areas:
• Day/Night Sitting
• Personal care at home
• Day Centres
• Residential and nursing care
• Hotels and holiday accommodation (with available support for
people with disabilities)
20
To work directly with service user and carer representative groups to profile
and prioritise the requirements of future service provision in this area
21
To develop service specific information to support adults with presenting
needs in the following areas: (liaising with other colleagues where necessary)
• Learning Disabilities
• Adult Mental Health
• Older People
• Older People with Dementia
• Physical Disabilities
• Substance misuse
22
To provide statistical management information relevant to the work of the
team and department