Main area Homeless Health Team - Mental Health Services
Grade Band: 4
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 350-MHC7071076
Employer: Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Peasley Cross
Town: St Helens
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/04/2025 23:59
Interview date: 15/04/2025
Job overview
Our Homeless Health team in St Helens work with extremely vulnerable people in our community providing assistance and advice about health problems. The team work with clients who are homeless, vulnerably housed and veterans.
We offer holistic assessments, healthcare advice, ongoing support and signposting and referrals into other services.
The service takes an asset-based approach by placing people's skills, networks and community resources (their assets) alongside their needs to improve care and support.
We aim to help reduce anxiety, facilitate access to other services and support, boost confidence and empower self-care.
Main duties of the job
1. The post holder will have the responsibility for participating as a key member of the team and other agencies to promote and maintain the health and wellbeing of an identified client group.
2. Provide a high standard of clinical care for individuals and groups within a defined area of the population under the supervision of a registered practitioner.
3. The post holder will maintain, develop and evidence their clinical knowledge, skills and competencies at all opportunities and act within the standards, protocols and guidelines for the delivery of care.
4. Ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes.
5. Work collaboratively within the team and with other agencies to deliver local and national health priorities and objectives.
6. Accept clinical responsibility for a manageable caseload, where appropriate.
7. Be accountable for own clinical practice.
8. Deliver care in line with national quality standards and Trust policy.
9. Work within the skills and competencies expected of the role.
10. Provide clinical support and knowledge to support staff.
11. Act as an advocate and champion for clients.
12. Support clinical staff in managing long term conditions.
13. Organise and facilitate groups and/or individuals to develop self-care skills.
14. Identify the need for and initiate referrals to internal/external partners, within agreed parameters.
15. Develop ‘person specific goals’ with individuals, carers and colleagues.
16. Enable individuals to develop the necessary skills to improve own health and lifestyle.
17. Contribute to health needs assessment of a defined area of the population.
18. Undertake risk assessment on a defined patient population in line with relevant guidelines.
19. Lead on health promotion activities as required.
20. Undertake clinical tasks, following patient specific direction.
21. Communicate effectively with patients and carers recognizing the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating.
22. Provide leadership, mentorship and role modeling to support staff within the clinical team.
23. Participate in individual clinical supervision.
24. Participate in mentorship and clinical supervision with the team.
25. Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation policies and procedures.
26. Provide information as requested.
27. Participate in audit as required by the organization.
28. Undertake the relevant foundation degree.
29. Undertake all relevant mandatory training.
30. Develop and maintain own knowledge and skills through the use of competency frameworks and continuous professional development (CPD) and personal development process (PDP).
31. The post holder shall as necessary provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues.
32. The post holder shall follow all the policies and procedures of the organization.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Foundation Degree or equivalent or equivalent work-based experience
Knowledge/Experience
* Assessing, planning and implementing individualised programmes of care
* Understanding local and national influences on health care delivery, including Public Health
* Experience of previous work in health care
* Clinical Governance and Risk Management
* Actively Involved in professional development
* Knowledge of Health Promotion strategies
* Knowledge of developing self care skills in patients/clients
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Skills
* Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
* Ability to travel, for work purposes
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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