Pathways Advisor

Your role as a Pathway Advisor will be to deliver high quality practical assistance, while finding and/or sustaining meaningful vocational and social inclusion activities for Mersey Care 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 based across all Life Rooms (Bootle, Southport, Walton, Lee Valley) and a range of community settings.
Shortlisting planned for 16 August 2024
Interview planned for 29 August 2024, Empower The Life Rooms users to enable and support their self-management and health and wellbeing.
Support individuals to maintain their independence; this could include referral to recovery learning, vocational opportunities, volunteering and paid employment.
Support admission and re-admission prevention activity across the Trust by working closely with clinical services and teams.
In liaison with partners, assist with developing and implementing shared data and outcomes for the locality; including locality dashboards and performance metrics.
Encourage the Trust clinical services and teams to engage and work effectively with systems transformation; to ensure that all system changes (information, technology and digital) are implemented and embedded.
Liaise and maintain links with the locality partners and wider Trust clinical services and teams in order to understand local need and risk, resulting in the development of joint action plans., 1. Empower The Life Rooms users to enable and support their self-management and health and wellbeing.
2. Support individuals to maintain their independence; this could include referral to recovery learning, vocational opportunities, volunteering and paid employment.
3. Support admission and re-admission prevention activity across the Trust by working closely with clinical services and teams.
4. Support effective hospital discharge and transfer of care across the Trust clinical services and teams; working with clinical colleagues towards the integration agenda.
5. In liaison with partners, assist with developing and implementing shared data and outcomes for the locality; including locality dashboards and performance metrics.
6. Encourage the Trust clinical services and teams to engage and work effectively with systems transformation; to ensure that all system changes (information, technology and digital) are implemented and embedded.
7. Liaise and maintain links with the locality partners and wider Trust clinical services and teams in order to understand local need and risk, resulting in the development of joint action plans.
8. Promote The Life Rooms social model of health across locality partners and the wider Trust clinical services and teams.
9. Map all support interventions available within the locality and update resources as required.
10. Monitor and support partner activity ensuring effective evaluation of services.
11. Work side by side with users of The Life Rooms to develop and evaluate the Life Rooms social model of health.
12. Effectively collect, interpret and report on all data from The Life Rooms social model of health.
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We celebrate diversity and promote 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 BAME, disabled and LGBT people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces 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.
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.
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.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please contact the recruitment team to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
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 £13 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 or email [email protected]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team is able to 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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

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 a three-pillar model; learning, social prescribing and community. The three-pillar model enables people to become more activated in their own health., Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.
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.