Support, Time & Recovery Worker

The Knowsley Later Life and Memory service (LLAMs) are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated Support, Time and Recovery (STR) Worker to join our team. We are a holistic community service for those with a diagnosis of or suspected diagnosis of dementia. We provide assessment, diagnosis, treatment and ongoing care.

You will work as part of an MDT, offering support to our service users, alongside senior nurse practitioners, Occupational therapy and dementia care navigator. This role will include 1-1 intervention, supporting the running of a diagnostic clinic and complete physical health screens in the community.

If you enjoy working as part of a supportive team, with the opportunity to make a real difference in people`s lives, then this job is for you!

Our operating hours are Mon to Fri 9-5. We are a community based team and therefore travelling to service users home is essential. This Knowsley team covers Huyton, Halewood and Whiston., In your role as STR Worker, you will work as part of a wider LLAMS Team, providing care, treatment and support to service users with significant Older Adult Mental Health Needs, within the Borough of Knowsley.

This role will require you to undertake home visits and assist service users to access local support and network opportunities. You will promote positive mental health and wellbeing for individuals, encouraging independence and providing opportunity. You may help to co-facilitate our CST group/s. The role involves supporting running a busy diagnostic clinic with the teams medics, and completing physical health screens- including bloods and ECGs.

All under the guidance and supervision of our highly qualified, experienced and supportive MDT staff.

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.