LD-Autism Health Equality Strategy Coord SHC

Job Category : Admin & Clerical.
Client Location : County Hall – E1, Essex County Council, Chelmsford.
Hours Per Week : 37.00.
Start Date : Immediate Start.
Start Time : 09:00.
End Time : 17:30.

The pay rate for this role is £11.76 per hour

Job Purpose
ECC Adult Social Care, through effective practice, is moving towards a transformational shift from a focus on long-term care support, to a model with four key principles:- prevention; early intervention; enablement and safeguarding. This will enable people, their families and carers to be able to access information and tools to live healthily and independently. Providing an opportunity to respond pro-actively to growing service demand in a sustainable way, within the financial constraints of the Council.

Whilst undertaking this work internally, the Council is also a member of the Southend, Essex and Thurrock Transforming Care Partnership, consisting of the 7 CCGs and three Local Authorities. As part of these arrangements, it is hosting their All Age Health Equalities Team, working across this whole footprint, to lead the transformation of the health and social care system, to deliver improved health outcomes for people with learning disabilities and/or autism.

The team are looking for an organised and efficient person to support the work of the LeDeR Learning Disability Mortality Review programme on a temporary basis. The key areas of work will be:

Ensuring records and data are available to reviewers to enable accurate completion of reviews. This might entail contacting GP surgeries, care homes, hospitals or accessing social care systems to safely access, store and share information.
Summarising complex and sometimes distressing information from reviews for Quality Panels.
Keeping databases up to date so that the programme can meet key performance targets
Analysing data and using excel spreadsheets
Liaising with reviewers and the Local Area Coordinator to answer queries and make sure systems work efficiently and enable the completion of reviews.
This position will be key to the success of the LeDeR Mortality Review Programme, which is expanding and developing. The post holder will be managed and supported by an LD Integrated Health Commissioner and will have regular supervision.

Service/Functional Accountabilities

Act as the first point of contact for the Health Equality Strategy and its programmes of work, dealing with routine and specialist enquiries to communicate relevant information to stakeholders, referring to others as appropriate.
Arrange contact or meetings with organisational/individual stakeholders, including families of the deceased individuals, within the LeDeR Programme, to take minutes, collate information and prepare documentation as required.
Responsible for maintaining an up-to-date list of local LeDeR Reviewers, ensuring all case allocations and progress is accurately recorded.
Develop and manage systems to ensure safe retrieval, storage and return of any medical notes, social care files or other sensitive personal data, ensuring timely progression of reviews and other projects and the escalation of any issues to the Learning Disabilities Commissioner.
Maintain local and nationally required data sets relating to individuals in the community or in hospital requiring a Care and Treatment Review and the independent personnel required, ensuring a pro-active approach to their delivery is achieved.
Collate and evaluate data relating to LeDeR, Transforming Care and other aspects of the Health Equalities Strategy, to provide accurate and timely information to support local and national reporting deadlines, including completion of the Assuring Transformation System.
Work collaboratively both nationally and regionally, to ensure local processes for the delivery of the Health Equality Programme remains in line with national requirements.
Responsible for ensuring all complaints, comments and suggestions are dealt with appropriately, in accordance with policy, resolved where possible and escalated to the
Learning Disabilities Commissioner when appropriate.
Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework.
Special Conditions: The role requires the postholder to be mobile throughout a wide operational area including travelling around the county of Essex and beyond, transporting service users and their belongings and to be able to do so in an emergency. Driving licence and car or ability to meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means is essential.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

Educated to RQF level 3 (A level) or equivalent by experience.
Evidence of development within role.
Experience of working in an administrative environment, with a working knowledge of Microsoft Office including Word and Excel and other computerised data systems, with evidence of accurate data entry.
Awareness of a range of health or social care services and the national initiatives relating to LD and Autism.
Able to work on own initiative, organising and prioritising own workload to set deadlines, evidencing problem solving skills.
Good communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to work effectively as part of a team.
Able to take care of own emotional wellbeing whilst dealing with potentially distressing information.