Community Support Worker | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 16 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £24,625 - £25,674 per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 15 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Liverpool, L14 5NR |
| Cwmni: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7340075/350-MHC7340075 |
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Come and join us at Leigh Moss Community Hub, based at Leigh Moss Hospital, Liverpool L14.
We are currently looking for a Support Worker to join our team.
This is an exciting role that will focus on supporting older people within our community that have a diagnosis of dementia or a severe and enduring mental illness.
There will be plenty of opportunities to work closely with our Multidisciplinary Teams, our colleagues within primary care and the voluntary and social enterprise sector. You will be able to deliver 1-1 care and intervention (mental health and physical health screening i.e. taking bloods and ecg's) and deliver groups supported by our experienced staff members.
We can offer you a variety of career development opportunities through our in-house training packages in addition to continual healthcare and professional development within Mersey Care.
We welcome applications from inpatient and adult health care settings as your skills will be transferable and we can offer you our specialist experience and training.
The aims of this work could include:
Support diagnostic care pathways (physical health screening and monitoring i.e take blood pressures, bloods, complete ecg's)
Reducing social isolation/loneliness by supporting the person with social re-engagement
Introducing the person to community resources
Signposting and supporting people to groups within the community and accompanying them to groups initially to build confidence
Supporting the person to attend appointments as part of care plan eg housing, GP, benefits advice
Supporting the person to address challenges within their current environment as part of care plan ie reduce clutter etc
Supporting person to leave the house to increase confidence as part of graduated programme
Supporting person to carry out community-based activities of daily living eg shopping
To carry out mindfulness/anxiety management on individual/group basis as appropriate
Support post diagnosis groups
To identify and develop resources of appropriate community resources available within the area
To introduce person to new hobbies /interests/ activities and link them with Life rooms / other appropriate local VCSE provision
To support the person to develop social networks
To support the person to structure time/ planning for week to increase engagement
To consider establishing /facilitating peer support groups
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.
To coordinate the assessment and delivery of a planned programme of care with guidance and indirect supervision from a qualified practitioner and to contribute to formal assessment and delivery of an individuals plan of care.
To assist with activities of daily living, social, recreational and occupational activities as agreed in the service user care plan.
To report general observations and provide feedback to a qualified practitioner both verbally and in written formats, if required. This should include any concerns arising from the service user physical or mental health.
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 writing.
To assist service users with self-administration of oral medication and ensure any concerns / issues about medication are reported back to a qualified practitioner.
To use a variety of verbal and non-verbal skills to overcome communication barriers presented by service users due to their mental health needs.
To contribute to maintaining a safe environment for service user in the community (where appropriate).
Please refer to the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
This advert closes on Wednesday 30 Jul 2025