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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the ICRAS Social work team (community division)  for a community assessor role to help support the service. It will involve working across the city, to undertake assessments including initial assessments of care needs for adults in their own homes, with acute, chronic and mental health conditions interpreting eligibility criteria. Arrange services for adults and/or their carers. To monitor and review as required.
Utilising persuasive and empathetic skills for service users and or their families to accept support services.
To use these skills with other professionals to enable a greater understanding and collaboration, dealing with areas of conflict and differing opinion.
Review ongoing care needs explaining to patients that services may be reduced or
withdrawn using empathetic and persuasive negotiating skills.
To look at a variety of options to meet care needs taking into account individual needs, least invasive and having to consider cost implications for both the people concerned and the public purse.
To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team ensuring that assessment and care
management is service user focused and crosses health and social care boundaries.
To contribute to the development of services by offering views and ideas to working groups to ensure the continuing provision of a high standard of care to service users.

Shortlisting planned for 22 July

Interviews planned for 30 July

Main duties of the job

Working across the city, to undertake assessments including initial assessments of care needs for adults in their own homes, with acute, chronic and mental health conditions interpreting eligibility criteria. Arrange services for adults and/or their carers. To monitor and review as required.
Utilising persuasive and empathetic skills for service users and or their families to accept support services.
To use these skills with other professionals to enable a greater understanding and collaboration, dealing with areas of conflict and differing opinion.
Review ongoing care needs explaining to patients that services may be reduced or
withdrawn using empathetic and persuasive negotiating skills.
To look at a variety of options to meet care needs taking into account individual needs, least invasive and having to consider cost implications for both the people concerned and the public purse.

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.