Support Worker

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust • Part-time • Liverpool, ENG, GB • £24.07k - £25.67k / year • 1m ago

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.

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.

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.

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.