The Life Rooms is one of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trusts innovative services. Our Social Model of Health is designed to support the prevention and population health agendas through promoting health activation and community access.
Your role as a Pathway Advisor will be to deliver high quality practical assistance, while finding and/or sustaining meaningful social inclusion activities for Mersey Care service users, carers and wider communities.
You will be joining an enthusiastic, innovative and motivated service and team dedicated to providing high quality services through a social model of health.
The post is a permanent position and based across all Life Rooms (Southport, Bootle, Lee Valley, Walton) and a range of community settings.
We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate and dedicated individual to join The Life Rooms as a Pathways Advisor. In this role, you will work closely with individuals, helping them take control of their health and well-being by connecting them to community services, activities, and support networks.
The Pathways Advisor role is responsible for:
• Receiving referrals from clinical teams via Elemental social prescribing system.
• Completing a holistic needs assessment with clients.
• Generating a social prescription that outlines a clients identified needs and goals.
• Making appropriate onward referrals.
• Promoting the Pathways offer.
You will have strong communication skills and a passion for working with individuals to improve wellbeing and reduce health inequalities.
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.
Principal Responsibilities:
1. Empower The Life Rooms users to enable and support their self-management and health and wellbeing.
2. Support individuals to maintain their independence; this could include referral to recovery learning, vocational opportunities, volunteering and paid employment.
3. Support admission and re-admission prevention activity across the Trust by working closely with clinical services and teams.
4. Support effective hospital discharge and transfer of care across the Trust clinical services and teams; working with clinical colleagues towards the integration agenda.
5. In liaison with partners, assist with developing and implementing shared data and outcomes for the locality; including locality dashboards and performance metrics.
6. Encourage the Trust clinical services and teams to engage and work effectively with systems transformation; to ensure that all system changes (information, technology and digital) are implemented and embedded.
7. Liaise and maintain links with the locality partners and wider Trust clinical services and teams in order to understand local need and risk, resulting in the development of joint action plans.
8. Promote The Life Rooms social model of health across locality partners and the wider Trust clinical services and teams.
9. Map all support interventions available within the locality and update resources as required.
10. Monitor and support partner activity ensuring effective evaluation of services.
11. Work side by side with users of The Life Rooms to develop and evaluate the Life Rooms social model of health.
12. Effectively collect, interpret and report on all data from The Life Rooms social model of health.
This advert closes on Sunday 26 Jan 2025