Job summary
- Main area
- Eating Disorders - Mental Health Services
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 350-MHC6412633
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Rathbone Hospital
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 24/07/2024
Employer heading
Support Worker
Band 3
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full-time Support Worker to work within the Mersey Care Eating Disorder Service.
The role will involve delivering a wide range of low-level interventions to clients; these may include assisted eating, meal planning, wellbeing calls, and supporting clients in the community. Client presentations include Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, and people with an Atypical Eating Disorder presentation. The service also offers group support for those supporting someone with an eating disorder. Within the role, you will receive regular supervision. The post holder will be working across the Eating Disorder and FREED (early intervention) pathway.
You will be joining an established team of clinical psychologists, psychological therapists, dieticians, specialist nurse, and peer support worker. The operational hours are Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm and we are based within William House, Rathbone Hospital, Liverpool, L13 4AW.
Main duties of the job
To carry out low level interventions with clients including assisted eating, meal planning, co-facilitating workshops, wellbeing calls, and providing psychoeducation, under the supervision of a qualified practitioner.
To support clients out in the local community e.g., eating related tasks, accessing social, recreational, and/or occupational activities.
To develop professional, therapeutic relationships with clients and families/carers. To maintain appropriate professional boundaries with clients at all times.
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
This role will involve delivering a range of low-level interventions to clients experiencing an eating disorder, under the supervision of a qualified practitioner.
For full details, see attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Evidence of further education qualification / NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in a care setting
Desirable criteria
- Psychology or other Health and Social Care related undergraduate degree
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven relevant experience of working with people with common mental health problems.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrates an awareness/understanding of eating disorders.
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
- Ability to manage own workload and time.
- Ability to communicate effectively – verbal and written, including telephone skills.
- Ability to evaluate and integrate training into practice
- High level of enthusiasm and motivation.
- Ability to demonstrate a non-judgemental attitude
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality
Desirable criteria
- Car driver and / or ability and willingness to travel to locations throughout the Liverpool area
- Ability to be self reflective, whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development and in supervision
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
- Uma Patel
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 471 7751
- Additional information
Charlie Dacey, Clinical Psychologist, [email protected]
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