Job summary
- Main area
- Homeless Health Team - Mental Health Services
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 350-MHC7071076-A
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Peasley Cross
- Town
- St Helens
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/04/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 05/05/2025
Employer heading
Assistant Practitioner
Band 4
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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.
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Job overview
Our Homeless Health team in St Helens work with extremely vulnerable people in our community providing assistance and advice about health problems. The team work with clients who are homeless, vulnerably housed and veterans.
We offer holistic assessments, healthcare advice, ongoing support and signposting and referrals into other services.
The service takes an asset-based approach by placing people's skills, networks and community resources (their assets) alongside their needs to improve care and support.
We aim to help reduce anxiety, facilitate access to other services and support, boost confidence and empower self-care.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will have the responsibility for participating as a key member of the team and other agencies to promote and maintain the health and wellbeing of an identified client group.
Provide a high standard of clinical care for individuals and groups within a defined area of the population under the supervision of a registered practitioner.
The post holder will maintain, develop and evidence their clinical knowledge, skills and competencies at all opportunities and act within the standards, protocols and guidelines for the delivery of care.
Ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Work collaboratively within the team and with other agencies to deliver local and national health priorities and objectives.
Accept clinical responsibility for a manageable caseload, where appropriate.
Be accountable for own clinical practice.
Deliver care in line with national quality standards and Trust policy.
Work within the skills and competencies expected of the role.
Provide clinical support and knowledge to support staff.
Act as an advocate and champion for clients.
Support clinical staff in managing long term conditions.
Organise and facilitate groups and /or individuals to develop self-care skills.
Identify the need for and initiate referrals to internal/external partners, within agreed parameters.
Develop ‘person specific goals’ with individuals, carers and colleagues.
Enable individuals to develop the necessary skills to improve own health and lifestyle.
Contribute to health needs assessment of a defined area of the population.
Undertake risk assessment on a defined patient population in line with relevant guidelines.
Lead on health promotion activities as required.
Undertake clinical tasks, following patient specific direction.
Communicate effectively with patients and carers recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating.
Provide leadership, mentorship and role modelling to support staff within the clinical team.
Participate in individual clinical supervision.
Participate in mentorship and clinical supervision with the team.
Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation policies and procedures.
Provide information as requested.
Participate in audit as required by the organisation.
Undertake the relevant foundation degree.
Undertake all relevant mandatory training.
Develop and maintain own knowledge and skills through the use of competency frameworks and continuous professional development (CPD) and personal development process (PDP).
The post holder shall as necessary provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues.
The post holder shall follow all the policies and procedures of the organisation.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Foundation Degree or equivalent or equivalent work-based experience
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Assessing, planning and implementing individualised programmes of care
- Understanding local and national influences on health care delivery, including Public Health
- Experience of previous work in health care
- Clinical Governance and Risk Management
- Actively Involved in professional development
- Knowledge of Health Promotion strategies
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of developing self care skills in patients/clients
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
- Ability to travel, for work purposes
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Victoria Griffiths
- Job title
- Clinical Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07341862079
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