Support Worker

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking adaptable mental health practitioners to work in a hospital setting, delivering mental health assessments and signingpost to community supports. The role involves independent decision making and collaboration with medical, nursing and social care teams.

You will contribute to discharge planning, develop relationships with community organisations, and operate across A&E and ward environments to support patients in crisis.

Qualifications

• Mental health assessments to be completed for patients in acute hospital settings.
• Ability to signpost to appropriate community and social care services.
• Contribute to discharge planning and care coordination.

Responsibilities

• Work with the multidisciplinary team in the acute hospital setting.
• Identify and support patients with mental health conditions across ages 16+ to older adults.
• Collaborate with Community Mental Health Teams and Local Authority services.
• Provide informed clinical input to signposting and discharge decisions.

Skills

Mental health assessment

Signposting

Discharge planning

Independent clinical decision making

Job description

Staff are engaged with the delivery, innovation and continuous improvement of services to benefit service users.

Visible and responsive leadership, setting the standard for others and role-modelled throughout the division for all managers

The Trust values of Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Respectfulness and Enthusiasm will be embedded across the division for all staff and evident to service users.

To carry out assigned duties, involving direct care and observation of service users under the guidance and indirect supervision of qualified staff.

To report to the qualified staff any observations made whilst providing care to service users / productivity and leisure, providing details of mental state and risk factors.

To work with service users on an individual and group basis as outlined in the care plan and as directed by the appropriate named lead professional.

We are seeking adaptable, flexible, innovative mental health practitioners who wish to develop their professional skills within a hospital setting. This will involve completing mental health assessments and the ability to effectively signpost while forging links with community organisations across health and social care. You will build and maintain effective relationships with health professionals in the general hospital settings to raise awareness with regard to individuals with mental health issues. You will be expected to work independently with confidence in order to make informed clinical decisions regarding appropriate signposting/discharge process.

Aintree Core 24 forms part of the 24/7 Urgent Care Model and urgent care pathway within Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. The 24/7 model provides mental health assessment, intensive community interventions, advice, support and guidance twenty four hours, seven days a week across several access points for individuals presenting in crisis.

There services are Southport District General Hospital, Aintree Hospital, The Royal at Liverpool plus Whiston Hospital & Warrington Hospital.

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust as a leading provider of mental health care, addiction services and learning disability care.

Service users receive a high quality service and one which is free from stigma, discrimination and harm., 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.

The Hospital Mental Health Liaison Team practitioners work alongside the multidisciplinary team within the acute hospital setting including medical and nursing teams, Community Mental Health Teams, Local Authority community services and Voluntary sector.

The role will serve to identify and support patients who present within the acute hospital with a variety of mental health conditions alongside the potential of complex physical comorbidities, individuals can present in crisis and display challenging or vulnerable behaviours who require a comprehensive mental health assessment to support and manage mental health problems and to contribute to the discharge planning process.

SW will have the opportunity to work across all ages from 16+ to older age and across both A+E and ward environments.