Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and dynamic individual to fill a newly developed role within our community older adults service and the acute trust. The post holder will work between Willow House (Community Mental Health Team) and Whiston Hospital (Acute Trust), while also engaging and attending meetings with a range of services, individuals, including the local authority and community placements. The boroughs covered as part of this role include Knowsley, St Helens, and Liverpool. Given that this post is newly developed, it presents a fantastic opportunity for the individual to shape and develop the role.
Main duties of the job
National predictions indicate that the number of individuals living with dementia will increase over time. This pathway aims to support a faster specialist assessment of individuals in the acute trust, facilitating timely and appropriate future placements due to the expertise of the post holder. Additionally, the role will help reduce crisis admissions to acute trusts by supporting diversion and closely working with placements to avoid this, thereby reducing bed occupancy days within the acute trust. This will also have a positive impact on service users, carers, and their families, ensuring they live in an appropriate setting that meets their individual needs.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Assessment of cognitive impairment, BPSD, care needs
- Work collaboratively with local memory services, care homes, local authority and acute trust
- Support and facilitate timely, safe discharge from hospital
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Assessment of cognitive impairment, BPSD, care needs
- Work collaboratively with local memory services, care homes, local authority and acute trust
- Support and facilitate timely, safe discharge from hospital
Person Specification
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Significant evidence of post registration experience, in relevant service areas
- Understanding of Adult safeguarding issues
- Competent in use of IT packages such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
- Demonstrate the ability to work in highly demanding environment
- Evidence of audit's undertaken and outcomes
- Significant evidence of delivering teaching programmes to staff groups
- Demonstrates ability and Knowledge on how to undertake audit and feedback to clinicians
Desirable
- Experience, of presentations at local, regional, national level
- Experience of providing supervision to others, and experience in a leadership role
- Competent in using databases and spread sheets
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant professional qualification - RMN / Occupational Therapist
Desirable
- NMP Qualification
- Completed course/module research methods
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
Skills
Essential
- Evidence of excellent clinical record keeping
- Demonstrate the ability to work in highly demanding environment.
- Maintained development of clinical leadership skills
- Undertaken a leadership programme
- Evidence of diplomacy and negotiation skills
- Able to demonstrate imaginative and effective use of resources
Desirable
- Evidence continued leadership development
Person Specification
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Significant evidence of post registration experience, in relevant service areas
- Understanding of Adult safeguarding issues
- Competent in use of IT packages such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
- Demonstrate the ability to work in highly demanding environment
- Evidence of audit's undertaken and outcomes
- Significant evidence of delivering teaching programmes to staff groups
- Demonstrates ability and Knowledge on how to undertake audit and feedback to clinicians
Desirable
- Experience, of presentations at local, regional, national level
- Experience of providing supervision to others, and experience in a leadership role
- Competent in using databases and spread sheets
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant professional qualification - RMN / Occupational Therapist
Desirable
- NMP Qualification
- Completed course/module research methods
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
Skills
Essential
- Evidence of excellent clinical record keeping
- Demonstrate the ability to work in highly demanding environment.
- Maintained development of clinical leadership skills
- Undertaken a leadership programme
- Evidence of diplomacy and negotiation skills
- Able to demonstrate imaginative and effective use of resources
Desirable
- Evidence continued leadership development
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
