22/66 Specialist Community Support Officer

3 weeks ago

Liverpool, United Kingdom Imagine Independence Full time

**Specialist Community Support Officer**

**Hours: 37.5 hours per week Job Reference: 22/66**

**Salary: £24,250.00 per annum**

**Based in: Hybrid working with office base in Liverpool**

**Terms: Temporary fixed-term contract, for a period of at least 3 months**

**Benefits: 25 days annual leave per annum (pro rata), employer’s contributory pension scheme, generous sickness absence pay and other benefits.**

Imagine Independence is a leading third sector organisation, passionate about supporting people with mental illness, neurodiversity, learning disabilities, and behaviours that challenge to live as part of their community. Imagine exists to challenge the stigma that having a mental illness or learning disability still brings. Imagine supports people to live meaningfully by nurturing their individuality and recognising the power of small steps.

Every day, Imagines’ staff and volunteers generously share their experience, knowledge, and talents with the people they support. Through their focused dedication to Imagines’ mission, and the courage to challenge the status quo, people feel valued. They know they are making both the ‘everyday’ and the ‘extraordinary’ become possible for everyone. They walk alongside the people they have the privilege to serve, helping to transform lives, one day at a time. And they never give up.

Do you want to become part of this amazing organisation? Imagine are recruiting a team of Community Support Officers to work within a brand-new, third sector service, commissioned by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. Working closely with colleagues in Community Mental Health and Secondary Care services, you will work within a team, which will support people with enduring mental illness to access community assets to better promote their health.

The service will work with 200 people who frequently access services when in crisis. You will promote active participation in decision making; support self
- management; recognise personal goals; take a holistic approach to health and wellbeing, connect people to local services; promote social inclusion; address underlying causes of poor mental health; be responsive and meet fluctuating needs particularly throughout crisis episodes.

This is a great time to join, as we continue to expand our services across the north-west of England and beyond. If you are an experienced community-based worker are recovery focused and want to make a real difference for others, every day of your working life, then get in touch. For an initial chat, please call Elaine Mather on 078161 132 547.

The main duties of the role are to:

- Manage a caseload providing person centred, recovery focussed support
- Promote active participation in support planning processes, ensuring personal goals are recognised, using the agreed methodology to meet holistic needs
- Adopt a social prescribing approach, working in partnership with local services to meet identified needs
- Maintain continuity of individual therapeutic relationships, aspire to develop hope inspiring relationships, and maintain engagement
- Promote social inclusion, supporting people being supported to realise their ambitions and develop sustainable, community-based support networks.
- Recruit and manage a small team of Peer Mentors ensuring people supported are able to benefit from contact with people with lived experience who have undertaken their own recovery journey, as a way to diversify the range of support mechanisms and networks available to any individual using the service.
- Provide an agile and responsive service to meet fluctuating needs including providing rapid access to other support and services when needed and working in partnership with members of multi -disciplinary teams
- Adopting an integrated working approach including communicating effectively; following assessment and referral protocols; attending MDT meetings. Involving members of multi -disciplinary teams in support and risk management planning processes
- Involve people being supported to developing Stay Well Plans and Advance Statements involving mental health services
- Support people being supported to maintain healthy lifestyles using 5 ways to wellbeing and PHE resources.
- Any other reasonable duties as may from time to time be required.

**Person specification**:

- Demonstrable experience of working in the community in similar services for people of all ages who live with mental illness.
- NVQ level 2/3 Health and Social Care, or equivalent qualification in Public Health/Health Promotion; a Care Certificate, or willingness to work towards achieving this.
- Evidence of continued relevant professional development.
- Knowledge of the other challenges created by living with a mental illness e.g. drug and alcohol misuse, self -harm, poverty and social exclusion.
- Knowledge of the communities in which the service will operate.
- Excellent support planning, recording and risk management skills.
- Experience of multi-di

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