Social Work Assistant | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Principles:

Prevent reliance on commissioned services, formal interventions, and delaying the need for long-term care

Reducing and delaying the need for hospital admission, reduce readmission

Reduce length of stay, or duration in receipt of Trust care/services

Identifying opportunities to regain or achieve maximum independence and quality of life in their communities

Prevent deterioration

Timely access to resources and support

Proactive approaches, responding to social determinants

Recovery focused, personalised care, maintaining independence

Redirect and divert to appropriate pathways through gatekeeping

Delivering improved patient outcomes:

Person-centred, strengths asset based

Driven by choice, dignity and respect

Involved in planning care and support

Enable improved choice and control over how care and support needs are met

Increase understanding of and links with community and local organisations

Support better use of facilities across a range of statutory and independent services and so greater choice

Support increased independence.

Enable a faster and better quality service with continuity

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.

Social Work Enhanced Case Coordinationapproach (Strengths-Based/Brokerage): Working in partnership with people who access care and support, their carers and family, to advise and share with them how they might best meet their wellbeing need, more choice and control over their life, supporting people to maximise their own strengths and assets. A collaborative consistent approach to working at the interface of social care, health and VCSFE. Requiring specific skills and knowledge held by social work to carry out these functions:

Building Relationships and Communication

Assessing Needs and Developing Plans

Connecting with Resources and Serviced

Collaboration and Multi Agency/Disciplinary Work

Advocacy and Empowerment

Reviewing/Monitoring Needs

This advert closes on Sunday 26 Apr 2026