Social Work Assistant | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 08 Ebrill 2026 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £27,485 - £30,162 per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 08 Mai 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Liverpool, L11 0BS |
| Cwmni: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7894218/350-CC7894218 |
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Principles:
Prevent reliance on commissioned services, formal interventions, and delaying the need for long-term care
Reducing and delaying the need for hospital admission, reduce readmission
Reduce length of stay, or duration in receipt of Trust care/services
Identifying opportunities to regain or achieve maximum independence and quality of life in their communities
Prevent deterioration
Timely access to resources and support
Proactive approaches, responding to social determinants
Recovery focused, personalised care, maintaining independence
Redirect and divert to appropriate pathways through gatekeeping
Delivering improved patient outcomes:
Person-centred, strengths asset based
Driven by choice, dignity and respect
Involved in planning care and support
Enable improved choice and control over how care and support needs are met
Increase understanding of and links with community and local organisations
Support better use of facilities across a range of statutory and independent services and so greater choice
Support increased independence.
Enable a faster and better quality service with continuity
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.
Social Work Enhanced Case Coordinationapproach (Strengths-Based/Brokerage): Working in partnership with people who access care and support, their carers and family, to advise and share with them how they might best meet their wellbeing need, more choice and control over their life, supporting people to maximise their own strengths and assets. A collaborative consistent approach to working at the interface of social care, health and VCSFE. Requiring specific skills and knowledge held by social work to carry out these functions:
Building Relationships and Communication
Assessing Needs and Developing Plans
Connecting with Resources and Serviced
Collaboration and Multi Agency/Disciplinary Work
Advocacy and Empowerment
Reviewing/Monitoring Needs
This advert closes on Sunday 26 Apr 2026