Job summary
- Main area
- Service Development
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity leave cover)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 350-TWS7172232
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Life Rooms
- Town
- Southport
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/05/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 06/06/2026
Employer heading
Community Inclusion Lead/Team Manager
Band 6
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
Community Inclusion Lead – The Life Rooms – Band 6
The Life Rooms is one of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trusts innovative services. Our Social Model of Health is designed to support the prevention and population health agendas by activation through health activation and community access.
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and driven individual to join The Life Rooms Team as a Community Inclusion Lead across Sefton Pathways Advice Service.
The Pathways Advice Service works with individuals to address the wider social determinants of health and the negative impact these can have on individuals' mental and physical health and wellbeing. The service provides socially prescribed support to individuals tailored to their unique needs, and aims to reduce the negative impact of health inequalities.
Main duties of the job
The Sefton Community Inclusion Lead will be responsible for:
- Managing the Sefton Pathways Advice Team.
- Managing the Wellbeing Support Team.
- Overseeing the Sefton Pathways Advice offer and ensuring the offer meets safety, quality and effectiveness standards.
- Overseeing delivery of the service specifications, ensuring that key performance indicators (KPIs) are met and reported.
- Engaging and developing relationships with Mersey Cares services to promote the Life Rooms service offer.
- Engaging and building connections with partner organisations in Sefton to support a robust social prescribing offer.
- Project oversight and development.
This is a 12-month fixed term contract to provide maternity leave cover. The post holder will be based at Southport Life Rooms and expected to travel to and work throughout the Sefton area.
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
The role of the Community Inclusion Lead forms part of the operational management of The Life Rooms Sefton Pathways Service, working within the Social Model of Health. The role involves working closely with Mersey Cares clinical teams as part of the interoperability programme, and working closely with community partners to support the provision of a service offer focused on reducing health inequalities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent in a health or education related area.
Desirable criteria
- Public Health, Health Promotion or Community Development qualification at postgraduate level.
- Prince 2 or Project Management qualification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable managerial experience.
- A minimum of two years current experience of working within the primary care health sector.
- Commitment to equality of access to health and other public services for all including those excluded by gender, sexuality, ethnicity, language, or unsettled status.
- Commitment to the right of all to belong and experience community
- A minimum of two years experience of working with and supporting members of excluded communities
Desirable criteria
- A desire for continuous development
Skills
Essential criteria
- Effective communication skills, both written and oral
- Excellent I.T. skills
- Excellent time management skills
- Ability to work across agencies and with professional health teams
- Ability to work under pressure and manage stressful situations.
- Ability to work as a member of a team
- Ability to lead on projects.
- Ability to work unsupervised and to make grounded judgements within agreed parameters of the roleq
- Ability to use tact and diplomacy when negotiating required outcomes with colleagues, partners, service users and members of the public
- The ability to learn and assimilate quickly in a variety of situations
- The ability and willingness to work flexibly to accommodate service need.
- Ability to prioritise own work, liaising with other staff and teams
- Evidence of people management skills
- The ability to effectively articulate and promote The Life Rooms service and the Social Model of Health
- The ability to give presentations to inform and influence.
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
- Promotes, respect and dignity at all times
- A demonstrable commitment and clear motivation to work with people who find themselves severely marginalised and excluded from the mainstream community.
- A commitment to safeguarding the health and well-being of individuals and communities.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kathryn Barker
- Job title
- Pathways Delivery Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 478 6556
- Additional information
If you require any additional information or for an informal discussion please contact
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