About the Role
Do you believe that everyone deserves the chance to live a safe, meaningful life in their community?
If so, this role is more than about tasks and routines. Its about Seeing the person working with compassion, curiosity and integrity, Balancing care with accountability, Promoting dignity, rights and least restrictive practice.
The Greater Manchester Specialist Support Team works with individuals who are at imminent risk of admission to hospital due to significant risk to self or others and individuals who may be at risk of placement breakdown. Intervention from the service seeks to enable individuals to live safely and meaningfully within the community.
Responsibilities
* As a support worker you will play a vital role in delivering high quality, trauma informed care under the guidance and supervision of qualified clinicians. You will support individuals to develop daily living skills, improve and develop emotional regulation strategies and work towards personal goals identified in their care and risk management plans. This may include promoting independence, supporting community access and contributing to behaviour support and offence related interventions.
* The Specialist Community Forensic Team is a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Nursing, Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational therapists, Social Work, Psychology and Psychiatry.
* You will be expected to work in all areas of Cheshire and Merseyside and to liaise with a number of partner agencies including Health, Social Care and the Criminal Justice agencies to develop proactive and preventative risk mitigation and support.
* The primary role of the Community Support Worker is to carry out assigned duties, involving direct care and observation of service users under the guidance and indirect supervision of qualified staff.
* To report to the qualified staff any observations made whilst providing care to service users / productivity and leisure, providing details of mental state and risk factors.
* To work with service users on an individual and group basis as outlined in the care plan and as directed by the appropriate named lead professional.
About Mersey Care
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.
Commitment to Care
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.
Working Hours
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles. Please note that this role covers a 7 day period, between the hours of 9am and 8pm, therefore working hours and days will be on a scheduled rota. Working patterns and flexibility will be discussed at interview.
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