Main area: Community Enhanced Rehabilitation - Mental Health Services
Grade Band: 3
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 350-MHC6866137
Site: Yew Tree Town, Huyton
Salary: £24,071 - £25,674 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 12/01/2025 23:59
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
Job overview
The Community Enhanced Rehabilitation Team is looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated Support Time and Recovery (STR) Worker to join our team. We are a newly forming team with the aim of supporting those with rehabilitation needs and complex mental health presentations.
You will work as part of an MDT, offering support to our service users. This will include 1-1 interventions, as well as co-facilitating Community Support Groups and assisting with other service duties.
If you enjoy working as part of a supportive team, with the opportunity to make a real difference in people’s lives, then this job is for you!
Main duties of the job
In your role as STR Worker, you will work as part of CERT, providing care, treatment and support to service users with significant mental health concerns.
This role will require you to undertake home visits and assist service users to access local support and network opportunities. You will promote positive mental health and wellbeing for individuals, encouraging independence and providing opportunity. You will help to co-facilitate our groups and offer carer support meetings.
All under the guidance and supervision of our highly qualified, experienced and supportive MDT staff.
Working for our organisation
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 and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to attached Job Description & Person Specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Apprenticeship in H & SC Level 3 or equivalent
* Good standard of education
* Qualification in craft, domestic skills, leisure or health equivalent to City & Guild Part 1-, or 2-year experience working in a health setting
Knowledge/ Experience
* Experience working in a care setting
* Demonstrate evidence of working in a team
* Experience of working with people who have a learning disability and/or Autism who offend
* Experience working in a supervisory role
Skills
* Able to communicate effectively
* Understanding of issues of confidentiality
* Ability to work as a member of a team
* Ability to demonstrate a non-judgemental attitude
* Ability to work on own initiative under the supervision of a qualified practitioner
* Able to satisfactorily complete physical intervention training
* Able to work within unpredictable circumstances
* Able to take direction and instruction
* Good communication skills – verbal and non-verbal
* Able to work under supervision
* Ability to remain calm in difficult situations and support others
* Ability to meet the day-to-day needs of the service users including providing practical support with daily living activities
* Work as part of a multidisciplinary team
* To have good observation and report skills
* Ability to supervise
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs.
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 £13 per year and maintain registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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