Personality Disorder Link Worker

Full job description
A great opportunity has arisen to join Knowsley Recovery Team. We are looking for a dedicated B7 practitioner to support our RESP Pathway, in the role of Personality Disorder Link Worker.

In this role, you will work closely with the wider Recovery MDT and Psychology, offering support and psychological based interventions under NICE guidance, to clients with a diagnosis of Personality Disorder.

You will work closely with experienced colleagues in the MDT, with ongoing support and clinical supervision. You will also have the opportunity for continued professional development via access to specific, in depth training to support you in this role.

Knowsley Recovery Team are a well led, highly regarded service, our core hours are Mon to Fri 9-5 (subject to change)

You will undertake assessments and offer specific psychological based interventions to clients under the RESP Pathway in Team.

This will involve working with clients, both on an individualised 1-1 basis and group work.

You will work closely with the Recovery MDT and wider services, to promote recovery and achieve best outcomes for clients under the RESP Pathway.

You will take a lead role in identifying and formulating service users needs and working together with other professionals and agencies, to help meet those needs, providing specific goal based interventions and support.

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.

A more detailed job description and person specification is attached to this vacancy. For any further enquiries please contact Team Manager.