Support Time Recovery 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.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------, Crisis Resolution Home Treatment team are currently looking to recruit band 3 support workers to the team. CRHT operates on a 24 hour, 7 day a week basis.
CRHT offers to provide intensive home support to services users as an alternative to hospital admission.
CRHT work collaboratively with a variety of services to support service users at home CRHT is based in Broadoak Unit and will cover Liverpool and Sefton areas.
The post holder will be expected to work on a rotational shift basis in accordance with service demands, this includes working weekends and night shifts., The post holder will work to assist with the continuity of care for service users within the appropriate care setting. The post holder will work from the community environment.
The post holder will provide Support, give Time to an allocated group of service users and aim to promote Recovery predominantly within the community environment, 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Facilitate and support the development of appropriate personal care
Facilitate and support self help, communication and social skills acquisition
Assist and promote independence with activities of daily living
Facilitate a service users recovery by assisting them to participate in social, vocational, recreational and leisure activities within the appropriate setting
Promote social inclusion through developing opportunities in areas such as employment, volunteering and education.
Participate in the implementation of specific programmes of care or therapy to develop and enhance socially appropriate adaptive behaviours under the supervision of qualified staff
Participate in regular supervision, engage in reflective practice and be committed to continued development
Provide information to enable the effectiveness of care to be evaluated.
Ensure appropriate records are maintained under the direction of the qualified practitioner.
Contribute to the involvement of Service Users, and carers/relatives in the delivery of care
Provide reassurance and support to service users and carers/family
Work collaboratively within the Care team to ensure that Service Users needs are met
Recognise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations
Contribute to the development of services
Contribute to the effective and efficient use of resources
Help to identify early signs of relapse as described within the care plan and alert the appropriate staff involved in the service users care.
Understand and adhere to Trust policies, procedures and clinical guidelines
Report any concern regarding Service User care to the Qualified Practitioner
Contribute to service improvement initiatives to enhance quality of Service User care
Participate in Service User and public involvement activities
Support individuals equality, diversity and rights
Participate in Serious Untoward Incident investigations/reviews as required
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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.
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We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
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Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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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.