About Home First

The Home First Team is a very busy, high turnover multi-disciplinary team with the specific responsibility of arranging quick and safe discharges from hospital back to a service user’s home setting. The team also has additional responsibilities for people who require some rehabilitative work to ensure a safe discharge from hospital, such as following surgery, a loss of mobility and/or a period of ill health.

The team has a broad professional base being composed of Social Workers, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and dedicated support workers who all work very closely together to achieve positive outcomes for service users and their carers. Because of the nature of their work, Home First works in very close co-operation with the Hospital Discharge Team and Reablement, as well as NHS colleagues.