Main area: Dementia Care - Mental Health Services
Grade Band: 3
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (9am - 5pm Monday to Friday)
Job ref: 350-MHC6953615
Site: The Brooker Centre
Town: Runcorn
Salary: £24,071 - £25,674 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 05/02/2025 23:59
Job overview
The Halton 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 social care. This role will include 1-1 intervention, supporting the running of a diagnostic clinic and completing 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 Monday to Friday, 9-5. We are a community-based team and therefore travelling to service users' homes is essential. This Halton team covers Widnes & Runcorn.
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 Halton.
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 the running of 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 organization 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
* Experience working with dementia
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 to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enroll 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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