Job summary
- Main area
- Knowsley Recovery Team - Mental Health Services
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (9 to 5, 3 days per week)
- Job ref
- 350-MHC7370955-A
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Knowsley Resource & Recovery Centre
- Town
- Whiston
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/08/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 10/09/2025
Employer heading
Personality Disorder Link Worker
Band 7
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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
A great opportunity has arisen to join Knowsley Recovery Team. We are looking for a dedicated B7 practitioner to support our RESP Pathway, in the role of Personality Disorder Link Worker.
In this role, you will work closely with the wider Recovery MDT and Psychology, offering support and psychological based interventions under NICE guidance, to clients with a diagnosis of Personality Disorder.
You will work closely with experienced colleagues in the MDT, with ongoing support and clinical supervision. You will also have the opportunity for continued professional development via access to specific, in depth training to support you in this role.
Knowsley Recovery Team are a well led, highly regarded service, our core hours are Mon to Fri 9-5 (subject to change)
Main duties of the job
You will undertake assessments and offer specific psychological based interventions to clients under the RESP Pathway in Team.
This will involve working with clients, both on an individualised 1-1 basis and group work.
You will work closely with the Recovery MDT and wider services, to promote recovery and achieve best outcomes for clients under the RESP Pathway.
You will take a lead role in identifying and formulating service users needs and working together with other professionals and agencies, to help meet those needs, providing specific goal based interventions and support.
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
A more detailed job description and person specification is attached to this vacancy. For any further enquiries please contact Team Manager.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Up to date Professional Registration (to be maintained)
- Evidence of continuing professional development in the field of RMN or / Occupational Therapist with post qualification and further training in Personality Disorder.
- Completion of relevant course in DBT/MBT or a willingness to undertake DBT or MBT training.
Desirable criteria
- Competent in the writing of formulations
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate an understanding of the Personality disorder Pathway model.
- Working experience of Inpatient / outpatient settings
- Experience of formulating risk assessments
- Experience of working with mental health services (or able to demonstrate transferrable skills)
- A working knowledge of NICE Guidance protocols
- A clear understanding of complex needs support issues such as homelessness, substance misuse and offending.
- Knowledge of Safeguarding protocols
- Knowledge and understanding of how to deal with challenging individuals.
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of delivering Psychological Interventions to people with Personality Disorder
- Experience of Care Co-ordination
- Experience of Community Mental Health Care
- Additional training in Personality Disorder
- Awareness of Primary Care Multi-agency demands
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
- Good verbal / written communication skills
- Competent IT skills
- Knowledge and understanding of equal opportunities.
- Able to prioritise and organise workload.
- Ability to motivate others.
- Ability to manage risk.
- Demonstrate an ability to maintain clear boundaries.
- Demonstration of Psychological awareness of other strengths and weaknesses
- Demonstration of an ability to have flexibility in their coping style and an awareness to see problems from a different perspective.
Desirable criteria
- To be able to chair meetings.
- Leadership Skills; evidence of clinical leadership in a particular domain, ideally Personality Disorder
- To demonstrate the ability to tolerate and manage conflict
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Paula Farley
- Job title
- Operational Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 521 8600
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