Technical Instructor TI3 - Secure Care

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Liverpool is seeking multiple Technical Instructors to work in a secure rehabilitation service. The role involves supporting therapeutic programmes and providing rehabilitative skills to patients. Candidates should have experience in mental health settings and strong interpersonal skills. Join us in making a difference in patient care while ensuring safety and compliance in a secure environment.

Qualifications

• 12 months experience working with clients in a mental health environment.
• Experience working within secure services.

Responsibilities

• Support development of patient therapeutic programmes.
• Assist in delivery of rehabilitation skills to patients.
• Provide reports on patients' development.
• Ensure safe therapeutic environment.
• Participate in ongoing mandatory training.

Skills

Effective interpersonal skills

Organisational skills

Observational skills

Information technology skills

Communication skills

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for multiple Technical Instructors to join the rehabilitation service within the Secure Care Division.

These exciting posts will be based in Rowan View - our Medium Secure Hospital based on the Maghull Health Park.

Through The Life Rooms, patients can access:

Learning: a wide range of courses for positive mental and physical health, as well as cultural and creative opportunities.

Social prescribing:practical one-to-one support in areas of horticulture, leisure-based opportunities, and therapeutic groups (e.g. arts and crafts).

Inclusion: safe and welcoming environments.

Technical Instructors work as part of a multi-disciplinary team within the Life Rooms, ensuring effective relationships with patients, delivering a consistent approach to patient care and providing therapeutic interventions, while maintaining operational security.

The successful candidates may be required to mobilise across the wider Secure Care Division i.e. Ashworth (High Secure), Rowan View (Medium Secure), Rathbone (Low Secure), Aspen Wood (Low Secure) or Hollins Park (Low Secure) depending on service needs.

Main duties of the job

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 by activation through a three-pillar model; learning, social prescribing and community.

The three-pillar model enables people to become more active in their own health and co-produce the services they access.

See person specification for further details.

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

Support in the development and implementation of patient therapeutic/rehabilitative programmes in conjunction with other members of the team.

Assist in the delivery of professional and vocational/rehabilitative skills to a designated patient group.

Assist Technical Instructors I and II in the formulation of patient care programmes to meet the identified needs of patients.

Assist Technical Instructor I in the assessment, planning, monitoring and implementation of patient-centred therapy programme in line with service standards.

Undertake delegated tasks to contribute to the safe and smooth running of the service.

Provide regular verbal and written reports/information pertaining to patients development within the Rehabilitation Services to multidisciplinary Patient Care Teams with support from senior staff.

Ensure a safe and secure therapeutic environment through conformity with current Health & Safety legislation.

Maintain the health, safety and security of others and initiate, contribute and comply with risk assessment.

To regularly carry out recorded checks to include gym equipment and ensure the maintenance of a safe working environment and to report promptly any problems so as to ensure a prompt response.

Keep up to date with developments and changes in respect of Rehabilitation trends.

Participate in the Trust Appraisal process on an annual basis.

Participate in ongoing mandatory training and to take the opportunity to extend knowledge and skills to maintain and update knowledge and skills

Engage in regular supervision and reflective practice.

Maintain a safe environment in line with High-Security Directions

In the absence of the TI2 the post holder will deputise.

Person Specification

Knowledge/Experience

• 12 months experience working with clients in a mental health environment.
• Experience working within secure services

Skills

• Demonstrate effective interpersonal skills.
• The ability to initiate and carry out patient care tasks and facilitate therapeutic activity.
• Exhibit good organisational and observational skills.
• Evidence of ability to use information technology (email, word processing) or motivation to obtain necessary skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing (clinical notes, reports).
• Excellent observation skills and able to relay key information to others (verbally and in clinical notes).

Values

• Accountability
• Respectful
• Responsive to service users
• Transparency and honesty

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.