Recovery Coordinator | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 19 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £25,147 - £27,596 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 May 2024 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L67UN |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6220278/350-MHC12652160 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a suitably qualified and experienced person to be part of the Brook Place team working on the Pathways Project, working with homeless service users across Liverpool City Centre.
The Pathways Project works alongside people who have/are rough sleeping and experiencing multiple disadvantages and social exclusion. The approach of the project is intensive, flexible, and person-focused support, with the aim of supporting people onto a sustainable treatment pathway and to resolve their homelessness.
The successful applicant will need to be able to work independently but engage with the wider pathways team managing complex and challenging cases, and have patient care at the forefront of their working practice.
Short Listing planned for 9th May 24
Interviews planned for 16th May 24
Pathways recovery workers deliver harm reduction interventions, and carry a small caseload to deliver quality, tailored structured treatment on an outreach/in reach basis. This will include planning inpatient detox and residential rehabilitation journeys.
You will be working in psychologically informed framework which will include training and development, clinical supervision, and reflective practice.
The essential qualities and skills for this work are compassion, inclusivity, and resilience, being able to build authentic trusting relationships, and effective joint-working in a complex health and social care system.
A minimum of 2-years experience working within substance misuse services is essential.
If you are motivated and positive about patient care then we would love to hear from you.
Successful applicant will play a vital role in the delivery of a high standard of care to service users, providing support, supervision and education for colleagues, other professionals and students.
Working out of the main site at Brook Place you will be part of the Liverpool Pathways Team working with difficult and often challenging service users.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Dawn Davies - 07584 313 554
Shortlisting is planned for: 9th May 24
Interviews are planned for: 16th May 24
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.
• The post-holder will be an integral member of a multi disciplinary team delivering comprehensive clinical & psycho-social intervention services. The post-holder will carry a case load and provide screening, comprehensive assessments, care planning & reviews and a range of recognised psycho-social interventions and support through an individuals recovery journey.
• The focus of all interventions will be:
• To reduce substance related harm to the individual and wider community
• To promote healthier life styles and increase service user choice
• To promote and support individuals into both abstinence based and medically assisted forms of recovery
• To provide effective case management and coordination of the individual’s treatment plan
• To promote carer and service user involvement In fulfilling these aims the post holder will use recognised evidenced based interventions and up to date validated information and will have specific responsibility for the development, delivery and coordination of a recovery focused model.
• The post-holder will ensure that service users consistently receive high quality care and treatment that adheres to best practice guidelines and achieve high professional standards.
This advert closes on Monday 6 May 2024