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An exciting opportunity has arisen within The Life Rooms for a Service Lead for our Community Access portfolio. Community Access Service Lead covers our Social Prescribing and Community Inclusion services.
We are looking for an experienced Band 8a Service Lead. The post is fixed term until end July 2026, covering a maternity leave. The post holder will be based at Walton Life Rooms with an expectation to travel across the geographical footprint of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Interviews planned for April 2025., To act as the primary support to the Director of Social Health and Community Inclusion in delivering the strategic and operational vision for the Social Model of Health.
To manage The Life Rooms resources across the teams safely and effectively; ensuring the delivery of a coordinated and equitable high standard of services to service users, carers, and members of the public
in local communities.
To maintain close links with other professionals both internal and external to the Trust to maintain a high quality of service delivery and ensure the integration of the Social Model of Health within local and community divisions, across primary and secondary care and into other public services such as housing, education and the VCSE for example., + Provide professional advice, expertise, and strategic and operational leadership to staff.
+ Oversee the effective planning and delivery of support through a diverse range of services.
+ Be directly accountable to the Director of Social Health and Community Inclusion for service delivery including the safety and governance arrangements, quality improvement projects and evaluation outcomes.
+ Identify, establish, and maintain partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the highest quality services are delivered to meet identified need, to ensure that the Social Model of Health is embedded within communities and aligned to integrated wellness services.
+ Oversee direct reports to ensure that service user risk is managed appropriately and that risk management plans are of a high quality.
+ Lead in setting standards for quality Life Rooms services based on sound local and national research findings to ensure that Life Rooms teams maintain high standards.
+ Oversee a programme of systematic monitoring, development, and evaluation of services to ensure effective operational management and delivery.
+ Develop and build relationships with clinical teams within Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.
+ Act as the point of reference of best practice in all matters related to the Life Rooms portfolio and Social Model of Health.
+ Assure The Life Rooms Senior Leadership Team of the delivery and benefits of the service.
Due to the sensitive information likely to be to be discussed the successful candidate will also be required to understand the need for confidentiality and discretion. We would also expect the candidates to be able to demonstrate robust and supportive leadership skills.
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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