1. Community Re-ablement Team Neighbourhood Community Officers (Nco’s)
Dignity in Care
Community Re-ablement Team
Neighbourhood Community Officers
(Nco’s)

2. Who are we?
A team of 15 NCO’s that work from 2 bases and cover and offer a borough wide housing related support service to vulnerable adults aged 18yrs and over.
The service has been running since 1991
Due to the introduction of the community care act

3. What do we do? Provide support to service users in their own home
Assess for small aids and adaptations
Help to maximise income
Set up small care packages
Assist with Housing Applications
Help service users to access services / Signpost
Assist with correspondence form filling etc
Liaise with partnership agencies
Reduce Isolation
Include Service users when identifying their needs for their support plan
Inform audience of the support plan how we look at goals and how we are going to achieve them who we will work with and how we review and monitor our progression

4. Who do we work with? Re-ablement Team Initial Assessment Team
Assisted Technology
Adult Safeguarding
Local Area Partnerships
Age UK
Occupational Therapy
Welfare Rights
Other Voluntary Groups
GP’S / District Nurses
Tell audience how we work with reablement team and if they identify a need then we can do a joint visit to perhaps do benefit check or any other service that we can help with

5. How we maintain Equality Dignity and Diversity
Listen
Empower
Enable
Empathise
Support people to achieve their goals
Encourage
Involve
Promote Independence
Personalised Service
Non Discriminatory
Respect
Acknowledge personal and cultural diversity
Work with Reablement Team to ensure that ser

6. What Do we Hope to Achieve
Maintain our own high standards and service delivery
Enable service users to remain living independently in their own home
Encourage social networking to reduce isolation
Investing in staff to achieve skills and knowledge to benefit service users

7. To Conclude Any questions come and speak to us at the stand
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