Are you interested in working with adults with mental health difficulties? As part of the Community Mental Health Transformation Program, we are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, caring, and proactive practitioner to support adults with moderate to severe mental health problems such as anxiety, depression, OCD, and psychosis.
The successful candidate will work within our multidisciplinary team to hold a caseload of service users for time-limited pieces of work. This work will be directly supported by Community Mental Health Nurses and other clinical practitioners. Your work will include supporting the physical wellbeing of service users.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Reducing social isolation/loneliness by supporting the person with social re-engagement.
2. Introducing the person to community resources.
3. Signposting and supporting people to groups within the community and accompanying them to groups initially to build confidence.
4. Supporting the person to leave the house to increase confidence as part of a graduated program.
5. Carrying out anxiety management.
6. Identifying and developing lists of appropriate community resources available within the area.
7. Introducing people to new hobbies/interests/activities and linking them with Life Rooms and other appropriate local provision.
8. Supporting the person to develop social networks.
9. Supporting the person to structure time/planning for the week to increase engagement.
10. Helping facilitate transfers back into primary care services and out of the Community Mental Health Team.
11. Taking and recording physical health measurements.
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, including 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 costs as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Wayne Lockley
Job title: Team Manager
Email address: wayne.lockley@merseycare.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01513008500
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