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 Knowsley Later Life and Memory service (LLAMs) are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated Support, Time and Recovery (STR) Worker to join our team. We are a holistic community service for those with a diagnosis of or suspected diagnosis of dementia. We provide assessment, diagnosis, treatment and ongoing care.
You will work as part of an MDT, offering support to our service users, alongside senior nurse practitioners, Occupational therapy and dementia care navigator. This role will include 1-1 intervention, supporting the running of a diagnostic clinic and complete physical health screens in the community.
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!
Our operating hours are Mon to Fri 9-5. We are a community-based team and therefore travelling to service users' homes is essential. This Knowsley team covers Huyton, Halewood and Whiston.
Main duties of the job
In your role as STR Worker, you will work as part of a wider LLAMS Team, providing care, treatment and support to service users with significant Older Adult Mental Health Needs, within the Borough of Knowsley.
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 may help to co-facilitate our CST group/s. The role involves supporting running a busy diagnostic clinic with the team's medics, and completing physical health screens- including bloods and ECGs.
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 the attached Job Description & Person Specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
* NVQ 3 or equivalent level of experience within a care setting
Knowledge/Experience
* Ability to function effectively as a team member
* Experience of working with persons within the appropriate care setting and their carers.
* An understanding of the organisation of nursing care
* Basic understanding of NHS issues
* Basic awareness of the Mental Health Act
* Safeguarding children/ vulnerable adults guidelines
* Overview and knowledge of acute mental health related issues
Skills
* Ability to communicate and engage with Service Users
* Able to present factual information and refer questions to others where appropriate
* Able to deal with sensitive issues with tact and diplomacy
* Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues in the health care setting
* Ability to work alone in a range of community environments
* Venepuncture training
* First Aid
* CPR training
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Application Process
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.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
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. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email sensitive@dbs.gsi.gov.uk ) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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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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