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Job overview

Are you looking for a change in career and do you like working in a challenging and rewarding setting? Do you want to build on and enhance the high level of skills and experience you already possess, why not consider this opportunity to join the Early Intervention in Psychosis team?

The service works with people between the ages of 14 - 65 who are experiencing a first episode of psychosis. We are looking for a highly committed Support Time Recovery Worker who is motivated, enthusiastic, self-directed with a keen interest in supporting individuals who have experienced psychosis.

You will be an integral part of the multi disciplinary team working alongside clinicians to improve the recovery outcomes for service users under our care.  You will  support service users in their homes and local communities alongside the MDT to ensure they are meeting their individual goals  and ensuring their care is delivered safely, efficiently, and effectively. 

The successful candidate will work along side all members of the team to ensure a holistic, recovery focused care is maintained throughout the service user pathway.

The successful candidate will also work in partnership with other community agencies such as Life Rooms, Mary Seacole and other social inclusion teams across merseycare to link service users into their local communities. 

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work to assist with the continuity of care for service users within the appropriate care setting and will work from the community environment.

The job holder will provide Support, give Time to an allocated group of service users and aim to promote Recovery predominantly within the community environment and will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users’ and their carers.

The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the principles of Recovery. These principles will recognise the need to:

• Promote safe practices
• Value the aims of service users
• Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice
• Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change
• Value social inclusion

We are a supportive team and we fully promote professional/personal training and development, and there are opportunities to train in-house and CPD and develop your clinical skills through supervision, complex case discussions, and reflective practice. 

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.