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 ethnically diverse, 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
Are you interested in joining a specialist psychosis service? The Early Intervention in Psychosis service works collaboratively with individuals and their families/carers who experience a first episode of psychosis. Approaches are recovery based incorporating biopsychosocial interventions.
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, caring and proactive practitioner to work with our client group - age range 14 - 65.
The successful candidate will work within our multi disciplinary team to hold a caseload of service users for time limited pieces of work. This work will be directly supported by Mental Health Practitioners and other clinical practitioners within the team. Your work will include supporting the physical wellbeing of service users.
Main duties of the job
Reducing social isolation/loneliness by supporting the person with social re-engagement
Introducing the person to community resources
Signposting and supporting people to groups within the community and accompanying them to groups initially to build confidence
Supporting person to leave the house to increase confidence as part of graduated program
To carry out anxiety management
To identify and develop lists of appropriate community resources available within the area
To introduce people to new hobbies /interests/ activities and link them with Life Rooms and other appropriate local provision
To support the person to develop social networks
To support the person to structure time/planning for week to increase engagement
To help facilitate transfers back into primary care services and or to Community Mental Health Team.
Taking and recording physical health measurements.
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
Essential criteria
* Health and Social Care Level 2 qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
* Care Certificate
* Phlebotomy trained
* Physical Health competency basic passport
* MEWS
* Level 2 Smoking Cessation
* 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
* Willing to work towards Level 3 Health Care qualification
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
* Experience of working in a care setting
* Understanding of issues of confidentiality
Desirable criteria
* Experience of individuals with mental health problems or personal lived experience of mental health problems
Skills
Essential criteria
* Able to communicate effectively
* 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
* Ability to provide support and guidance to junior staff
Values
Essential criteria
* Continuous Improvement
* Accountability
* Respectfulness
* Enthusiasm
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Strong customer service belief
* 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.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
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 £16 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.
Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website -
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.
Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
* Job Description & Person Specification (PDF, 171.7KB)
* OH Risk ID (PDF, 392.6KB)
* A Great Place to Work (PDF, 2.1MB)
* Our People Promise and Charter (PDF, 5.8MB)
* Employee Benefits (PDF, 950.7KB)