School Health Support Worker

The Children's service provides support to children, young people and their families within a progressive universal model of service delivery dependant on assessed need. The service offers every child/family a programme of screening, immunisations, developmental reviews and information and guidance to support parenting and healthy choices as defined by The Healthy Child Programme (Department of Health, 2008).

The post holder will work as part of a School Health Team to promote and maintain the health and well being of children and young people within a defined school population. Following appropriate training and assessment assist the school nursing teams in the organisation and implementation of health screening and immunisation sessions.

The post holder will undertake duties that ensure the smooth running which underpin the service delivery from the School Nursing Teams. This includes the organisation and management of resources (equipment,and stock) and providing appropriate clinical administrative support in base and at other locations as service needs dictates.

Ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.

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.