Community Inclusion Lead/Team Manager

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 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 ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- 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. ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- 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 Educated to degree level or equivalent in a health or education related area. Public Health, Health Promotion or Community Development qualification at postgraduate level. Knowledge 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 Skills Effective communication skills, both written and oral 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 Accountability Support High professional standards Responsive to service users Engaging leadership style 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. —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form. Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you. We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role. The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email sensitive@dbs.gsi.gov.uk ) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed. Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website – https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa. Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles. Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form. Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band. ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- Employer certification / accreditation badges 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. Name Kathryn Barker Job title Pathways Delivery Manager Email address kathryn.barker@merseycare.nhs.uk Telephone number 0151 478 6556 Additional information If you require any additional information or for an informal discussion please contact kathryn.barker@merseycare.nhs.uk FULFIL YOUR POTENTIAL AND SPREAD YOUR WINGS WITH MERSEY CARE At Mersey Care, our commitment to ‘perfect care’ lies at the heart of everything we do, a person centred care that starts with you. It’s a pledge to create an environment and staff support that will enable you to do the best job you can possibly do, to be the best you can possibly be. You’ll be joining one of the most innovative and progressive NHS trusts in the country. One that offers specialist inpatient and community services to support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. We are the founding member of the Zero Suicide Alliance, and one of only three Trusts in the country which delivers high secure mental health care. You’ll be made to feel at home, joining an 11,000 strong Mersey Care family comprising doctors and nurses, as well as countless other roles from dieticians to dentists, from data analysts to physiotherapists. You\’ll find a full list of our roles in our A-Z list. You’ll have a home in the North West of England where your work/life balance is respected and working from sites easily commutable from Liverpool, Manchester, North Wales and Cheshire with many roles operating a hybrid working system. #J-18808-Ljbffr