Pathways Advisor – Community Inclusion

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 through promoting health activation and community access. The Community Inclusion Team supports underrepresented communities in Liverpool to access health services and offer opportunities to improve their health and wellbeing. The Team works closely with diverse groups including those seeking asylum, refugees and members of the BAME, GRT and D/deaf communities. As a Pathway Advisor within the Community Inclusion Team your role will be to deliver high quality practical assistance, while finding and/or sustaining meaningful social inclusion activities for service users, carers and wider communities. You will be joining an enthusiastic, innovative and motivated service and team dedicated to providing high quality services through a social model of health. The post is a permanent position and involves travelling and working from different community venues in the Liverpool area., We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate and dedicated individual to join The Life Rooms as a Pathways Advisor. In this role, you will work closely with individuals, helping them take control of their health and well-being by connecting them to community services, activities, and support networks. The Pathways Advisor role is responsible for:

• Receiving referrals from clinical teams via Elemental social prescribing system.
• Completing a holistic needs assessment with clients.
• Generating a social prescription that outlines a clients identified needs and goals.
• Making appropriate onward referrals.
• Promoting the Pathways offer.

You will have strong communication skills and a passion for working with individuals to improve wellbeing and reduce health inequalities.

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.