Social Work

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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------,

• To manage a complex caseload of service users as part of a hospital avoidance and discharge pathway and to co-ordinate care in the context of relevant health and social care legislation and policy frameworks including but not limited to The Care Act 2014 Mental Health Act 1983/2007 Mental Capacity Act 2005 Interagency Adult Safeguarding policies and procedures CHC Framework/Guidance
• To contribute to the assessment and care management process within a multi- disciplinary team
• To make service users aware of financial contributions, to provide information enabling service users to make an informed choice.
• MDT working in both community and hospital settings (The Royal Liverpool Hospital Frailty Unit, Longmoor House Aintree Hospital, Liverpool Innovation Park).
• Assessing and commissioning packages of care and residential and nursing placements
• Hospital discharge planning
• Safeguarding enquiries
• Court of protection work, Complete assessment visits - assess patients/service users needs and identify support required to support their discharge from hospital.
To follow relevant legislation and law - Care Act 2014, Human Rights Act 1998 and Mental Capacity Act 2005. To complete Care Act assessments, support plans, mental capacity assessments and best interest decisions and Transfer of Care documents. To access/use relevant systems such as liquid logic, EMIS, PENS etc. To follow social work code of conduct and follow all in house procedures, and confidentiality, GDPR etc., Complete assessment visits - assess patients/service users needs and identify support required to support their discharge from hospital. To follow relevant legislation and law - Care Act 2014, Human Rights Act 1998 and Mental Capacity Act 2005. To complete Care Act assessments, support plans, mental capacity assessments and best interest decisions and Transfer of Care documents. To access/use relevant systems such as liquid logic, EMIS, PENS etc. To follow social work code of conduct and follow all in house procedures, and confidentiality, GDPR etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form. 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.

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.