Personality Disorder Link Worker

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 ethnic minorities, 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.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------, A great opportunity has arisen to join Warrington Recovery Team. We are looking for an experienced and dedicated B7 practitioner to support our RESP Pathway, in the role of Personality Disorder Link Worker.
In this role, you will work closely with the wider Recovery MDT and Psychology, offering support and psychological based interventions under NICE guidance, to clients with a diagnosis of Personality Disorder.
You will work closely with experienced colleagues in the MDT, with ongoing support and clinical supervision. You will also have the opportunity for continued professional development via access to specific, in depth training to support you in this role.
Warrington Recovery Team are a well led, highly regarded service. Our base is Wakefield House and our core hours are Mon to Fri 9-5 (subject to change), You will undertake assessments and offer specific psychological based interventions to clients under the RESP Pathway in Team.
This will involve working with clients, both on an individualised 1-1 basis and group work.
You will work closely with the Recovery MDT and wider services, to promote recovery and achieve best outcomes for clients under the RESP Pathway.
You will take a lead role in identifying and formulating service users needs and working together with other professionals and agencies, to help meet those needs, providing specific goal based interventions and support.

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.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [email protected] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
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 £13 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 or email [email protected]) 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.
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.
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