The Assistant Director – All Age Independence presented the report of the Director of Adult Care and Health.

The purpose of this report was to seek the Committee’s approval of the Adult Social Care Community Reablement Model.

This was designed to add value to a person’s experience with the reablement system.

The report Community Reablement Model contained within the comprehensive Target Operating Model attached in Appendix 1.

This was split into six sections: -

1. Context

2. Design model

3. People

4. Financial

5. Governance & Reporting

6. Appendix

Adult Social Care and Public Health Committee on 11 October 2022, approved in principle the establishment of an Adult Social Care reablement service delivered by the Council. The Council had a hybrid model of reablement. The assessment element was provided by the Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, as part of Wirral Social Work contract, this returns to the Council on 1 July 2023.

The delivery element was provided by independent sector community domiciliary care providers as part of a full Care and Support at Home offer which covers reablement, domiciliary care and Continuing NHS Health Care.

The model would enable greater alignment and joining up of services to improve outcomes for people accessing or in need for reablement to live well in their communities, and to aspire to more active, fulfilling, and independent lives as possible.

The model will focus on providing high quality community reablement services that would enable greater opportunity to direct resources to those who would benefit the most, and was designed to enable people to maximise their independent living skills in order that they can continue to live their lives as independently as possible and to reduce their need for long term social care support.

The approach to supporting people who require reablement services in Wirral will benefit from learning from other areas. This ensures that best practice in personalised care and support is offered to people to meet their goals and aspirations, and to achieve better outcomes.

Members noted the value of support of carers and queried the level of training required. They also discussed the line between rehabilitation and reablement. Members requested the an annual review and reporting be brought back to Committee and were informed that this would form part of the performance monitoring report brought to committee on an quarterly basis.  

Resolved – that the Adult Social Care Community Reablement Target Operating Model as set out in Appendix 1 of this report be approved.