18/11/2020
Care Coordinator role includes
To organise and coordinate carers to travel to the residence of clients who are having difficulty coping for a variety of reasons;
- To ensure care staff arrive at pre-arranged time as documented in Service User Care Plan
- To ensure care staff complete all services for that client, as specified in their individual Care Plan;
- To encourage care staff to arrive at the pre-arranged time.
- To monitor care staff are arriving at pre-arranged times.
- To work and communicate with family, relatives, local authority social workers, district nurses and other members of the care team;
- To inform care staff of changes to care plan and interventions required
- To contact emergency care services in cases of emergency;
- To document and report to the Registered Manager / Responsible person, on the welfare of the client; and,
- To ensure all care visits are attended by an appropriately trained and experienced carer
- To ensure carers are given information about the service user, their difficulties and the roles they are to perform, prior to their first attendance.
- To ensure all care visits have the agreed number of carers at all times and visits take place at the pre-arranged times.
- In cases of staff shortages and in emergencies act in the role as Care Worker ensuring per-arranged care visits take place.
- To attend all study courses organised by the Company Training Manager.