Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Community Access Support Practitioner
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Come and join us at Leigh Moss Community Hub, based at Leigh Moss Hospital, Liverpool L14.
We are looking to recruit an Older Adult Community Access Support Practitioner (CASP) to join our Central Liverpool Community Mental Health Team.
This is an exciting role that works directly with Older People with Severe and Enduring Mental Illness to support (re)engagement with their community resources.
The role affords plenty of opportunity to work closely with our Multidisciplinary Teams, our colleagues within primary care and the voluntary and social enterprise sector.
We will offer you a variety of career development opportunities through our in-house training packages in addition to continual healthcare and professional development within Mersey Care.
Given the diverse nature of this role it is vital for applicants to be able to travel regularly and reliably between multiple sites in the course of performing their duties.
The Aims Of This Work Could Include
- Reducing social isolation/loneliness by supporting the person with social re-engagement
- Introducing the person to community resources
- Signposting and supporting people to groups within the community and accompanying them to groups initially to build confidence
- Supporting the person to attend appointments as part of care plan e.g. housing, GP, benefits advice
- Supporting the person to address challenges within their current environment as part of care plan i.e. reduce clutter etc
- Supporting person to leave the house to increase confidence as part of graduated programme
- Supporting person to carry out community-based activities of daily living e.g. shopping
- To carry out mindfulness/anxiety management on individual/group basis as appropriate
- To identify and develop resources of appropriate community resources available within the area
- To introduce person to new hobbies /interests/ activities and link them with Life rooms / other appropriate local VCSE provision
- To support the person to develop social networks
- To support the person to structure time/ planning for week to increase engagement
- To consider establishing /facilitating peer support groups
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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.
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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.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Jody Taylor
- Job title: Community Hub Manager
- Email address: jody.taylor@merseycare.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 0151 2506127
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