Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Support, Time & Recovery Worker

The closing date is 29 May 2025

Job summary

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.

About us

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.

Details

Date posted

09 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,625 to £25,674 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

350-MHC7185838

Job locations

Hartley Hospital

Curzon Road

Southport

PR8 6PL


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description & Person Specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description & Person Specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Health and Social Care Level 2 qualification or equivalent experience

Desirable

  • 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

  • Experience of working in a care setting
  • Understanding of issues of confidentiality

Desirable

  • Experience of individuals with mental health problems or personal lived experience of mental health problems

Skills

Essential

  • 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

  • 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
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Health and Social Care Level 2 qualification or equivalent experience

Desirable

  • 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

  • Experience of working in a care setting
  • Understanding of issues of confidentiality

Desirable

  • Experience of individuals with mental health problems or personal lived experience of mental health problems

Skills

Essential

  • 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

  • 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

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Hartley Hospital

Curzon Road

Southport

PR8 6PL


Employer's website

https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Hartley Hospital

Curzon Road

Southport

PR8 6PL


Employer's website

https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Team Manager

Carol Rice

carol.rice@merseycare.nhs.uk

07467116276

Details

Date posted

09 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,625 to £25,674 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

350-MHC7185838

Job locations

Hartley Hospital

Curzon Road

Southport

PR8 6PL


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