This team works across Adults, Health, and Integration to prepare for all forms of external scrutiny and Sector Led improvement, including Peer Review and CQC Assurance. The Team is involved in the coordination of evidence to support assessment processes and is the single point of communication for the collation of adult social care evidence and data, including the production of the Local Account. The team has distinct 2 functions – the production and analysis of data informed by the operational interpretation of data, practice standards and workforce development. The team supports all sections of the Adult Social care workforce by collating the Workforce Strategy and work with Workforce development to commission learning and development activity and promoting best practice.
Cheshire East Council have a Contact Team in both East and South of the Borough to oversee contacts and referrals of people not known to services their area. The teams are made up of a Manager, Advanced Practitioner, Social Workers, Social Care Staff and Occupational Therapists and have support from the Local Area Co-ordinators. The function of the service is to prevent, reduce and delay the need for long term care and support by signposting, offering information and advice about relevant services available within the community.
The Adult Social Care Teams in the East consist of Wilmslow, Knutsford, Poynton, and Macclesfield. Each area has a Practice Manager to oversee the service and support for individuals in the community and residential and nursing care settings. Each area works closely with the 4 Care Communities, housing and third sector organisations. The teams offer advice, signposting, care at home or in residential and nursing homes, day opportunities provision and carers breaks.
The Short-Term Services teams are linked to Leighton and Macclesfield hospitals. The teams work in partnership with Mid-Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and East Cheshire NHS Trust. The function of the service is to undertake limited assessments for discharge whilst the person is in hospital, to work alongside hospital therapists to assess people for short-term care and support needs to aid recovery, agree a recovery and support plan with the person and their family members/carers, including reablement and equipment. The team is also responsible for managing the flow of patients into the discharge process and pathways and support people who have identified safeguarding risks and work alongside health colleagues.
Cheshire East Council has Mental Health Teams in the East and South of the Borough. Their core purpose is to help people with mental ill health to achieve the outcomes that matter to them in their lives. The service is responsible for ensuring the Council fulfils its duties to deploy sufficient Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) to respond to all the statutory requirements of the Mental Health Act 1983, completing assessments under the Care Act, ongoing case management and professional support, contributing to Education Health and Care Plans for young people with special educational needs, undertaking safeguarding enquiries and investigations under S42 of the Care Act 2014 and undertaking Mental Capacity Act assessments.
The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Team’s remit is to enact the operational functions of the DOLS Supervisory Body for people living in (or about to go into) care homes and hospitals within statutory time frames. This involves screening and allocating referrals, scrutinising assessments to ensure they meet appropriate legal standards, ensuring that people who are deprived of their liberty have continuous authorisations that are renewed periodically and educating partner organisations and other professionals on their responsibilities in relation to the Mental Capacity Act.
Cheshire East Council have Learning Disability teams in the East and South of the Borough. Their core purpose is to support people with a learning disability and/or autism who may have complex needs or display behaviour that can be complex, including those with a mental health condition.
There is a specialist CHC assessment service to support individuals who are being assessed for eligibility under the national framework for CHC. The service is managed by the Practice Manager in the South Learning Disability Team and will triage referrals from all service user groups.
The Adult Safeguarding Team covers the whole Borough of Cheshire East. The primary purpose of the team is to fulfil the statutory adult safeguarding responsibilities of the Local Authority, under section 42 of The Care Act 2014, for those referrals involving a paid care provider. The functions of the team include supporting the care concerns procedures by providing advice and support to care providers and colleagues, triaging, and responding to safeguarding referrals, co-ordinating organisational safeguarding responses and providing a first response to PREVENT referrals.
The Sensory Team cover both East and South of the Borough and consist of Social Care staff and Rehabilitation Officers for Visual Impairment. We also work very closely with the Deafness Support Network who we have commissioned to assist people with hearing loss. Cheshire East Council have a statutory responsibility to support people with sensory impairments.
Occupational Therapy at Cheshire East Council is an all-age service, working with both adults and children. There are two teams, one based in the east, and the other in the south of the borough. The Occupational Therapy service adopts a proportionate care approach to assessment, to enable people to remain as independent as possible in their own homes. Occupational Therapists do this by providing specialist advice and support with identifying equipment and/or adaptations as required.
There is a separate Preparing for Adulthood team which works closely with the Learning Disability teams and with Children’s services to support young people with learning disabilities. This team works across the who local authority supporting young people from school through into adulthood.
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