The Life Rooms is one of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust's innovative services. Our social Model of Health is designed to support the prevention agenda and reduce the impact of health inequalities.
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and driven individual to lead our Community Inclusion Team. The Community Inclusion Team aims to enhance the inclusion and well-being of under-represented communities within Liverpool. The Team's scope involves collaborating with stakeholders, promoting diversity and equality, providing support services, and implementing strategies to create a more inclusive environment for all members of the community. The team works towards fostering a sense of belonging and acceptance for individuals of different backgrounds, abilities, and experiences.
The post holder will oversee the Community Inclusion Team and the service offer. The Community Inclusion Delivery Manager will be responsible for:
1. Managing the Community Inclusion Team.
2. Overseeing delivery of the service specifications, ensuring that key performance indicators (KPIs) are met and reported.
3. Assuring that the services are well governed.
4. Assuring that the services meet quality and care standards.
5. Assuring that the service is continuously developed.
The Community Inclusion Delivery Manager will be expected to work across the Liverpool area. Their office base will be Abercromby Health Centre, Grove Street, Liverpool, L7 7HG. The post holder will benefit from being a part of The Life Rooms services and will have the support of peers within the Life Rooms Wider Leadership Team.
For further information please contact Anna Millican-Ward, Community Access Service Lead on 07972101853 or at anna.millican-ward@merseycare.nhs.uk.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health, including specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services. At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
The responsibilities include:
1. Provide visible and effective leadership to the Community Inclusion Team, including day-to-day operational management.
2. Deputise for the Community Access Service Lead as necessary, in relation to the Community Inclusion service offer.
3. Be responsible for the quality of the inclusion offer, ensuring robust governance is in place for all workstreams established to support improving access to healthcare and other relevant services.
4. Ensure policies and procedures are in place to support effective and safe service delivery.
5. Prepare quarterly performance reports for the commissioners and attend quarterly contract monitoring meetings to present them.
6. Provide guidance to the service on delivering excellent inclusion interventions to support health access and improved wellbeing for under-represented communities.
7. Work proactively with Liverpool City Council and Public Health to develop reactive and proactive interventions to support reducing health inequalities for underserved communities.
8. Attend Liverpool region network meetings to promote the service offer and identify new ways of working to develop access in line with emerging needs.
9. Ensure processes are in place to support the growth of the partner asset base.
10. Have oversight of national and local agendas and how to support mitigating access barriers that under-represented communities may experience.
11. Develop and implement robust outcome measures of practice that demonstrate the effectiveness of the service.
12. Regularly review the service and individuals’ practice to ensure that the service develops appropriately while maintaining rigorous quality improvement.
13. Ensure the Community Inclusion Team adheres to all agreed data collection processes by regularly scrutinising data to provide up-to-date reports for the Senior Leadership Team on performance against KPIs and outcome measures.
14. Work proactively with the Quality and Research Lead and the Research Team to identify quality improvement initiatives around inclusion and improving healthcare access.
15. Work collaboratively with the wider Life Rooms Teams to support the development of new and innovative programmes and delivery methods to meet the needs of under-represented communities.
16. Provide reports for The Life Rooms Senior Leadership Team and Commissioners to evidence service performance.
17. Co-ordinate and support system-wide partner working to support a multi-agency approach to reducing health inequalities and improving health access for under-represented communities.
18. Work collaboratively with partner and community organisations to develop accessible referral pathways for service users into the Community Inclusion Team.
19. Undertake the full range of human resource activity for members of the Community Inclusion Team, including recruitment, induction, training, supervision, performance, sickness management, grievance, and disciplinary management.
20. Authorised signatory for travel expenses up to £500 and service expenses up to £1000.
21. Monitor incidents and safeguarding issues within the Community Inclusion Team to ensure the working practices of staff with the service are appropriate for a non-clinical service.
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