Senior Community Inclusion Worker

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool City Region; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Ein innovativer Dienstleister im Gesundheitswesen sucht einen Senior Community Inclusion Worker, um die Integration unterrepräsentierter Gemeinschaften zu fördern. In dieser spannenden Rolle werden Sie die Community Inclusion Workers leiten, Partnerschaften mit Organisationen aufbauen und Veranstaltungen organisieren, um Barrieren im Gesundheitszugang abzubauen. Sie werden Teil eines engagierten Teams, das sich für die Verbesserung des Wohlbefindens und die Verringerung von Gesundheitsungleichheiten einsetzt. Diese Position bietet die Möglichkeit, einen echten Unterschied im Leben von Menschen in Liverpool zu machen und ihre Integration in die Gemeinschaft zu unterstützen.

Qualifications

• Erfahrung in der Arbeit mit Minderheitengruppen und Verständnis für deren Herausforderungen.
• Fähigkeit, Partnerschaften mit Organisationen aufzubauen.

Responsibilities

• Leitung und Unterstützung von Community Inclusion Workers.
• Entwicklung von Partnerschaften zur Verbesserung des Zugangs zu Gesundheitsdiensten.

Skills

Kommunikationsfähigkeiten

IT-Kenntnisse

Zeitmanagement

Fähigkeit zur Teamarbeit

Fähigkeit zur Projektleitung

Education

Abschluss in Community Development oder Gesundheitsbereich

Fließend in einer Sprache außer Englisch

Job description

HoursFull time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm)Job ref350-TWS7038030EmployerMersey Care NHS Foundation TrustEmployer typeNHSSiteAbercromby Health CentreTownLiverpoolSalary£29,970 - £36,483 per annumSalary periodYearlyClosing16/03/2025 23:59

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Band 5

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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

The Life Rooms is one of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trusts innovative services. Our Social Model of Health is designed to support the prevention and population health agendas through promoting health activation and community access.

The Community Inclusion Team aims to enhance the inclusion and wellbeing of under-represented communities within Liverpool. The Team's scope involves collaborating stakeholders, promoting diversity and equality, providing support services, and implementing strategies to create a more inclusive environment for all members of the community. The Team works towards fostering a sense of belonging for individuals of different backgrounds, abilities and experiences.

As a senior Community Inclusion Worker your role will be to provide line management to the Community Inclusion Workers and develop partnerships with those working with multi-ethnic communities.

You will be joining an enthusiastic, innovative and motivated team dedicated to providing high quality services through a social model of health.

The position is a permanent position and involves travelling and working from different community venues in the Liverpool area.

Shortlisting planned for: 17 March 2025

Interview planned for: 4 April 2025

Main duties of the job

We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate and dedicated individual to join the Life Rooms as a Senior Community Inclusion Worker in the Community Inclusion Team.

The Senior Community Inclusion Worker role is responsible for:

Line management, including all aspects of HR management.

Developing partnerships with organisations working with multi ethnic communities.

Organising events focused on removing barriers to accessing healthcare and/or support services.

Data collection and monitoring activity performance against KPIs.

Carrying a Community Inclusion Worker caseload.

You will have strong communication skills and a passion for working with individuals to improve wellbeing and reduce health inequalities.

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

1. Develop partnerships with those working with the BAME, asylum seeker, refugee and other socially excluded communities to increase their access to health services and to support them to find, or sustain, meaningful vocational &/or social inclusion activity. 2. Line manage the Community Inclusion Workers; including all aspects of Human Resource Management on a day to day basis. 3. Carry a Community Inclusion Worker workload; supporting members of excluded communities to access health and other services which improve their life chances and decrease their isolation through the development of community access opportunities. 4. Support the Social Work and Research Lead to articulate and develop The Life Rooms Social Model of Health in relation to the Community Pillar and how that works to reduce social isolation and exclusion not only in relation to excluded communities including BAME groups, refugees asylum seekers but also the general population accessing The Life Rooms. 5. Ensure that all Community Inclusion Workers accurately capture and collate all activity data relating to both the service KPI’s and activity pertinent to their role in relation to The Life Rooms. 6. Report any safeguarding issues ensuring concerns are acted upon appropriately and in a timely manner, including the completion of both internal and external records e.g. Pre-EHAT, DATIX etc. Support the Community Inclusion Workers in relation to any more complicated safeguarding or DATIX issues etc, seeking advice as necessary from the Team Leader. 7. As a member of The Life Rooms contribute towards the development of the Social Model of Health and its evaluation

Person specification

Qualifications

Fluent in an identified language other than English

Fluent second language English

Educated to degree level or equivalent in a community development or health related area

PETALS

Desirable criteria

A desire for continuous professional development

Qualification in Community Development, Health Promotion or Public Health

Knowledge/experience

Proven experience of working with minority groups and an understanding of how belonging to such a group can affect their everyday lives

Proven experience of having personally helped someone become part of a wider community

Proven experience identifying the financial implications surround refugee or asylum seekers, employment and benefits and have supported people to access support and external guidance

Experience of outreach or advocacy work, able to provide personal examples of the difference this has made to the lives of those they were working with

Knowledge or experience of Primary Care services

Desirable criteria

Experience of working as a line manager

Values

Continuous Improvement

Accountability

Respectfulness

Enthusiasm

Responsive to service users

Engaging leadership style

Strong customer service belief

Transparency and honesty

Discreet

Promotes, respect and dignity at all times

A demonstrable commitment and clear motivation to work with people who find themselves severely marginalised and excluded from the mainstream community

A commitment to safeguarding the health and well-being of individuals and communities

Skills

Excellent communication skills, both written and oral

Excellent I.T. skills

Excellent time management skills

Ability to work across agencies and with professional health teams

Ability to work under pressure and manage stressful situations

Ability to work as a member of a team

Ability to lead on projects

Ability to work unsupervised and to make grounded judgements within agreed parameters of the role

Ability to use tact and diplomacy when negotiating required outcomes with colleagues, partners, service users and members of the public

The ability to learn and assimilate quickly in a variety of situations

The ability and willingness to work flexibly to accommodate service need

The ability to effectively articulate and promote The Life Rooms service and the Social Model of Health

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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [email protected] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.

We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.

The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email [email protected] ) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.

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Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.