Support Time and Recovery Worker | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £22,816 - £24,336 PA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2024 |
| Location: | WARRINGTON, WA2 8WA |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6142480/350-MHC6142480 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Full Time Band 3 Support, Time, and Recovery Worker to work within the Warrington Later life and Memory Service (LLAMS)
This is a fixed term 6 month opportunity.
The hours for this post are 37.5 hours per week, part time working hours will be considered.
The operational hours are Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm the base for this post is Hollins Park site.
The role of this post is to assist in outpatient clinics, completing cognitive testing, and physical observation, and supporting CMHT with home visits, and medication side effect monitoring and compliance.
The role of this post is:-
1 to assist in outpatient clinics, completing cognitive testing, and physical observation.
2. supporting CMHT with home visits, and medication side effect monitoring and compliance.
3. Monitoring and auditing prescriptions
4. Participating in running group under supervision of senior colleagues
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.
1. To assist in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care for service users, including health care assessments under the direction and supervision of qualified members of
2. To assist in the facilitation of medical review clinics, under the direction of qualified members of
3. Contribute towards reports required by managers or external agencies, for example child care conferences or court
4. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a non-judgemental
5. Assisting in the facilitation of group work with service users, under the direction and supervision of qualified members of
6. Participate in and perform clinical investigations under supervision of qualified members of staff.
7. Establish and maintain communication with people on routine and operational
8. To respond in a courteous and professional manner with clients, visitors, other agencies and their
9. Contribute towards the maintenance of accurate client records according to Trust
10. To liaise with staff from other agencies, taking into consideration confidentiality
11. To contribute to effective running of the service by providing and receiving information to/from other departments or services. Ensure this information is provided in the most effective way i.e. telephone, fax or in
12. To assist service users with self-administration of oral medication and ensure any concerns/issues about medication are reported back to a qualified
13. To use a variety of verbal and non-verbal skills to overcome communication barriers presented by service users due to their mental health
14. To develop and maintain links with other agencies and services, both statutory and voluntary.
15. To use skills and techniques to de-escalate situations where service users become physically or verbally
16. To contribute to the development of risk management plans for service users by reporting to the qualified practitioner any issues or concerns regarding service users behaviour/action towards themselves or
17. To adhere to the Trust’s rights based approach taking into account service user
18. To take responsibility for ensuring your own personal safety and that of the service user when using
19. To take reasonable care for the health and safety of yourself and any others that may be affected by your own acts and omissions at
20. To ensure that you are familiar with the terms and conditions or your
21. To participate in service development activities, as
22. To participate in the services’ performance management supervision framework and work towards meeting identified goals and objectives as agreed in personal development
23. To act at all times, in accordance with Trust policies and
24. To undertake mandatory training as stipulated by the Trust and ensure that all interactions with service users are in line with this e.g. manual
25. Under the guidance and supervision of a qualified practitioner, to make accurate and appropriate entries into health
26. To participate in staff meetings to assist effective two-way
27. To seek advice and further training, if
28. To make the qualified practitioner aware of any incidents arising during a span of duty and carry out any actions arising from this as
29. Take direction from the qualified practitioner as to any duties or tasks assigned to you for own span of duty and carry them out as
30. To participate, as directed in the induction of new
31. Maintain a safe, clean area in which to
32. To act in calm, professional manner at all times
1. To seek appropriate advice and support from the qualified practitioner during occasions when service users or their carers become agitated or
2. To maintain service user confidentiality at all times, both on and off
3. To maintain professional boundaries with service users at all times, both on and off
4. In exceptional circumstances to co-operate with reasonable requests from ore senior staff to vary your area of work to meet unplanned clinical
This advert closes on Sunday 21 Apr 2024