Care Coordinator

Equal Care is a different type of care organisation - we put power in the hands of those who matter most - the people who give and receive care and support. 

The Care Coordinator role is three days a week, spread Monday to Friday, with some ad hoc weekend days always agreed well in advance with the individual. You will identify and manage the needs of an intelligent and eloquent person, who lives with autism and an ADHD diagnosis. This will involve co-ordinating and bringing together a range of people within different organisations as well as independent individuals to collaborate to solve and support his multiple needs.

You will need to be resilient, persistent, able to navigate bureaucracy, be an advocate, mentor, and coach, and skilled at prioritising multiple threads of the person’s life to deliver clear and actionable solutions.

What you'll be doing

Co-ordination 

Key to the success of this role is co-ordinating and implementing an “integrated care and support plan” for the person you’re supporting. The integrated plan is being created by a broad range of health and social care professionals. We need someone to help bring all these people together in the support of this person. His needs are complex so you will be untangling the threads to develop a cohesive plan of action that will summarise and simplify needs so that they can be acted upon, and importantly, seen through to a satisfying conclusion.

Your daily work will require short-term flexibility, positive reaction and active support (including emotional support), but you will also need to think longer term, strategically, to foresee issues and solve them before they become a problem.

Through liaising and organising with specialist agencies, social and health services, charities, companies, and individuals involved in the person’s life and care, you will develop a deep understanding of his needs and personality, enabling you to nimbly navigate the bureaucracy of everyday life that can overwhelm those with ADHD and autistic diagnoses, delivering a better quality of life. 

You will:

• Lead on the co-ordination, maintenance and development of an integrated health and care plan which brings together multiple services to create a consistent support plan for this person. 

• Upwardly manage to hold the various agencies and services to account for what has been agreed in the plan, particularly regards engaging with NHS services and the different clinical professionals involved in the person’s care.

• Source and schedule support, acting as a personalised brokering service, you will join the dots to improve his quality of life.

• Become the champion of the person, acting as his informal advocate making his voice louder, helping him to meet the challenges of his life, especially in addressing issues with services and support staff. 

• Support in managing finances, including his Direct Payments and applications for funding for services and staff to work with him, as well as for activities and his living needs.

This individual wants to fulfil his dreams, so mentoring and coaching around employment will form a key pillar of your work. 

Support

As well as administration and co-ordination, if existing care and support workers are not available at short notice you will need to step in to support the individual, which could include: 

• Home management

• Organising and attending visits 

• Driving to appointments 

• Support to attend social events 

• Supporting accessibility and sensory needs

• Handling mental health crises calmly and positively 

This element of your role is by exception only and is there for when gaps appear in the person’s support.

A few details

We're open to the Care Co-ordinator being self-employed or employed by Equal Care. The salary would be:

• £21.50 per hour (self-employed)
• £25,000 - £27,000 (employed, pro rata)

 If you are employed it would be 30 days paid holidays, calculated pro-rata on your part-time work. This includes bank holidays, however, if you want to work these days you can decide to take a holiday on alternate days instead.

We offer hybrid working, a mixture of remote, with the person and at our office in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.