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<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>Do you have experience of the criminal justice system? Have you been in prison? Have you used substance misuse or other support services? Would you like to use your experience to help others? If you are willing to share your own experiences with others, can inspire hope and belief that recovery and rehabilitation is possible - empowering our service users to achieve their hopes and goals then why not apply for this exciting new role.</p>     <p>Merseycare foundation trust have produced an animation available on YouTube which explains the role of peer support / lived experience workers from a team's perspective which potential candidates may find helpful it can be found at:</p>   <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCCS8MCStuM" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCCS8MCStuM</a></p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>Our Peer Support Workforce is expanding and we are looking to recruit STR Lived Experience Support Workers to work in Liaison and Diversion Reconnect Resettlement service.</p> <p>Our Lived Experience Support Workers will work across our Court and Reconnect services. A key responsibility isfacilitating community engagement by helping service users connect with community groups and networks, which promotes social inclusion and a positive identity. The role also involves advocating for service users' rights, accompanying them to appointments, welcoming them to a service, signposting advice and promoting autonomy and self-management. Additionally, the worker will contribute to fostering a recovery-oriented environment by working with multidisciplinary teams and using strengths-based, non-discriminatory language to support recovery-focused activities.</p> <p>This post is subject to an enhanced check with adults barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check and police/prison vetting which will be considerate of any offending history.</p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong><em>Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.</em></strong></p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>12 August 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
        <h3>Band</h3>
      
      <p>Band 3</p>
  
  

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £24,937 to £26,598 a year
      
        Per annum
      
    </p>
  
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
    <p>
      
        
          Full-time
        
      
    </p>
  

  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>350-CC7066116-B</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
      <p>Liaison and Diversion Service inc Reconnect</p>
      <p>South Sefton Magistrates Court, 20 Merton Road</p>
      <p>Merseyside</p>
            <p>L20 3XX</p>
      <br>
      
        
      
    
  

      

      
  
    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p><strong>A detailed overview and the main responsibilities of the role can be found in the Job Description attached .</strong></p>
  

  
    
      
        Job description
      
    
    
      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p><strong>A detailed overview and the main responsibilities of the role can be found in the Job Description attached .</strong></p>
    
  


      
  
    <h2>Person Specification</h2>
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_1">
        
          Qualifications
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>GCSE/NVQ 2 or equivalent in relevant subject</li>
        
        <li>Willingness to work toward attainment of  NVQ 3 or equivalent in relevant subject</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Willingness to undertake  further training in line  with the development of  the RPSW role</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_2">
        
          Knowledge/Experience
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Own personal lived experience of criminal  justice system and health/social care  services.</li>
        
        <li>Willing to positively share your own life  experiences, with service users and carers</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_3">
        
          Skills
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Able to demonstrate understanding of  Intentional Peer Support</li>
        
        <li>Ability to demonstrate knowledge of  personal recovery</li>
        
        <li>Evidence of good interpersonal skills and an  ability to form peer relationships with  service users and carers</li>
        
        <li>Effective listening skills</li>
        
        <li>Ability to communicate on all levels and to  a broad scope of individuals, both internally  and externally to the Trust</li>
        
        <li>Ability to appreciate / understand other  people's worlds</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_4">
        
          Values
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Continuous Improvement</li>
        
        <li>Accountability</li>
        
        <li>Respectfulness</li>
        
        <li>Enthusiasm</li>
        
        <li>Support</li>
        
        <li>High professional standards</li>
        
        <li>Responsive to service users</li>
        
        <li>Engaging leadership style</li>
        
        <li>Strong customer service belief</li>
        
        <li>Transparency and honesty</li>
        
        <li>Discreet</li>
        
        <li>Change oriented</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
    
  


  
    
      
        Person Specification
      
    
    
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_1">
          
            Qualifications
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>GCSE/NVQ 2 or equivalent in relevant subject</li>
          
          <li>Willingness to work toward attainment of  NVQ 3 or equivalent in relevant subject</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Willingness to undertake  further training in line  with the development of  the RPSW role</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_2">
          
            Knowledge/Experience
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Own personal lived experience of criminal  justice system and health/social care  services.</li>
          
          <li>Willing to positively share your own life  experiences, with service users and carers</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_3">
          
            Skills
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Able to demonstrate understanding of  Intentional Peer Support</li>
          
          <li>Ability to demonstrate knowledge of  personal recovery</li>
          
          <li>Evidence of good interpersonal skills and an  ability to form peer relationships with  service users and carers</li>
          
          <li>Effective listening skills</li>
          
          <li>Ability to communicate on all levels and to  a broad scope of individuals, both internally  and externally to the Trust</li>
          
          <li>Ability to appreciate / understand other  people's worlds</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_4">
          
            Values
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Continuous Improvement</li>
          
          <li>Accountability</li>
          
          <li>Respectfulness</li>
          
          <li>Enthusiasm</li>
          
          <li>Support</li>
          
          <li>High professional standards</li>
          
          <li>Responsive to service users</li>
          
          <li>Engaging leadership style</li>
          
          <li>Strong customer service belief</li>
          
          <li>Transparency and honesty</li>
          
          <li>Discreet</li>
          
          <li>Change oriented</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
      
    
  



      
  
    <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
    <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
  

  

  
    <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
    <p>
      Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
      <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
    </p>
  


 
  
    
      
        Additional information
      
    
    
      
        <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
        <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
      

      

      
        <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
        <p>
          Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
          <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
        </p>
      
    
  


      
  
    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>Liaison and Diversion Service inc Reconnect</p>
      <p>South Sefton Magistrates Court, 20 Merton Road</p>
      <p>Merseyside</p>
            <p>L20 3XX</p>
    
  

  
    <br>
    <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
      
        <p><a href="https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>
      
  

  
    
    
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
    
  



  
      
        <h2>Employer details</h2>
        <h3>Employer name</h3>
        <p>Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>Liaison and Diversion Service inc Reconnect</p>
          <p>South Sefton Magistrates Court, 20 Merton Road</p>
          <p>Merseyside</p>
                    <p>L20 3XX</p>
        
      

      
        <br>
        <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
          
            <p><a href="https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

NHS Jobs

Lived Experience Peer Support Worker

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>Do you have lived experience of mental health challenges and services and have a desire to support others on their recovery journey? If so, we invite you to join our team in this unique and rewarding role.</p>     <p>Merseycare foundation trust have produced an animation available on YouTube which explains the role of peer support / lived experience workers from a team's perspective which potential candidates may find helpful it can be found at:</p>   <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCCS8MCStuM" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCCS8MCStuM</a></p>   <p>Any prospective candidates who feel they would benefit from additional support &amp; guidance to submit an application are encouraged to reach out to us at the following email address in the first instance: <a href="mailto:peersupport@merseycare.nhs.uk" target="_blank">peersupport@merseycare.nhs.uk</a></p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>The role involves building supportive and respectful relationships with service users, helping them identify, explore, and achieve meaningful and sustainable recovery goals.</p>   <p>By sharing personal recovery stories, the worker will inspire confidence and self-belief in others, promoting essential coping, self-help, and self-management techniques.</p>   <p>A key responsibility is facilitating community engagement by helping service users connect with community groups and networks, which promotes social inclusion and a positive identity. The role also involves advocating for service users' rights, accompanying them to appointments, welcoming them to a service, signposting advice and promoting autonomy and self-management. Additionally, the worker will contribute to fostering a recovery-oriented environment by working with multidisciplinary teams and using strengths-based, non-discriminatory language to support recovery-focused activities.</p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong><em>Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.</em></strong></p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>22 August 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
        <h3>Band</h3>
      
      <p>Band 3</p>
  
  

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £24,937 to £26,598 a year
      
        Per annum
      
    </p>
  
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
    <p>
      
        
          Part-time
        
      
    </p>
  

  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>350-MHC7367006</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
      <p>Hartley Hospital Adult Community Mental Health Team</p>
      <p>Curzon Road</p>
      <p>Southport</p>
            <p>PR8 6PL</p>
      <br>
      
        
      
    
  

      

      
  
    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p><strong>A detailed overview and the main responsibilities of the role can be found in the Job Description attached .</strong></p>
  

  
    
      
        Job description
      
    
    
      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p><strong>A detailed overview and the main responsibilities of the role can be found in the Job Description attached .</strong></p>
    
  


      
  
    <h2>Person Specification</h2>
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_1">
        
          Qualifications
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Health and Social Care Level 2 qualification or equivalent experience</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Care Certificate</li>
          
          <li>Phlebotomy trained</li>
          
          <li>Physical Health competency basic passport</li>
          
          <li>MEWS</li>
          
          <li>Level 2 Smoking Cessation</li>
          
          <li>Good standard of education</li>
          
          <li>Qualification in craft, domestic skills, leisure or health equivalent to City &amp; Guild Part 1, or 2 year experience working in a health setting</li>
          
          <li>Willing to work towards Level 3 Health Care qualification</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_2">
        
          KNOWLEDGE/ EXPERIENCE
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Experience of working in a care setting</li>
        
        <li>Understanding of issues of confidentiality</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Experience of individuals with mental health problems or personal lived experience of mental health problems</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_3">
        
          Skills
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Able to communicate effectively</li>
        
        <li>Ability to work as a member of a team</li>
        
        <li>Ability to demonstrate a non-judgemental attitude</li>
        
        <li>Ability to work on own initiative under the supervision of a qualified practitioner</li>
        
        <li>Ability to provide support and guidance to junior staff</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_4">
        
          VALUES
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Continuous Improvement</li>
        
        <li>Accountability</li>
        
        <li>Respectfulness</li>
        
        <li>Enthusiasm</li>
        
        <li>Support</li>
        
        <li>High professional standards</li>
        
        <li>Responsive to service users</li>
        
        <li>Engaging leadership style</li>
        
        <li>Strong customer service belief</li>
        
        <li>Transparency and honesty</li>
        
        <li>Discreet</li>
        
        <li>Change oriented</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
    
  


  
    
      
        Person Specification
      
    
    
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_1">
          
            Qualifications
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Health and Social Care Level 2 qualification or equivalent experience</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Care Certificate</li>
            
            <li>Phlebotomy trained</li>
            
            <li>Physical Health competency basic passport</li>
            
            <li>MEWS</li>
            
            <li>Level 2 Smoking Cessation</li>
            
            <li>Good standard of education</li>
            
            <li>Qualification in craft, domestic skills, leisure or health equivalent to City &amp; Guild Part 1, or 2 year experience working in a health setting</li>
            
            <li>Willing to work towards Level 3 Health Care qualification</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_2">
          
            KNOWLEDGE/ EXPERIENCE
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Experience of working in a care setting</li>
          
          <li>Understanding of issues of confidentiality</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Experience of individuals with mental health problems or personal lived experience of mental health problems</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_3">
          
            Skills
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Able to communicate effectively</li>
          
          <li>Ability to work as a member of a team</li>
          
          <li>Ability to demonstrate a non-judgemental attitude</li>
          
          <li>Ability to work on own initiative under the supervision of a qualified practitioner</li>
          
          <li>Ability to provide support and guidance to junior staff</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_4">
          
            VALUES
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Continuous Improvement</li>
          
          <li>Accountability</li>
          
          <li>Respectfulness</li>
          
          <li>Enthusiasm</li>
          
          <li>Support</li>
          
          <li>High professional standards</li>
          
          <li>Responsive to service users</li>
          
          <li>Engaging leadership style</li>
          
          <li>Strong customer service belief</li>
          
          <li>Transparency and honesty</li>
          
          <li>Discreet</li>
          
          <li>Change oriented</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
      
    
  



      
  
    <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
    <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
  

  

  


 

      
  
    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>Hartley Hospital Adult Community Mental Health Team</p>
      <p>Curzon Road</p>
      <p>Southport</p>
            <p>PR8 6PL</p>
    
  

  
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    <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
      
        <p><a href="https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>
      
  

  
    
    
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
    
  



  
      
        <h2>Employer details</h2>
        <h3>Employer name</h3>
        <p>Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>Hartley Hospital Adult Community Mental Health Team</p>
          <p>Curzon Road</p>
          <p>Southport</p>
                    <p>PR8 6PL</p>
        
      

      
        <br>
        <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
          
            <p><a href="https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

<h2>Introduction</h2>
	
		
			<p>Are you an experienced Registered Psychologist wanting to work in an environment where kindness and teamwork is integral? Where you'll be invested in, with opportunities to develop and grow your career to achieve your goals? Where you can play an integral part of supporting the provision of psychology services. Then join the team and experience what delivering great healthcare should feel like.</p>
<p>An exciting 12-month opportunity has arisen to support a national programme of work to transform pathways for women who use secure services, recognising there are significant differences in the presentation of mental disorder, for women in secure care. You will work closely with varying stakeholders within the region, including the PROSPECT Provider Collaborative.</p>
<p>Post holder will support the provision of psychology services in a specified area, in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, and under the direction and supervision of a Senior/Principal/Consultant or Lead Psychologist. You will maintain high quality ensuring adherence to national guidelines, legislation, organisational protocols and play a key role in Psychology service development through an evidence-based approach.</p>
<p>As a registered psychologist you will participate fully with the multidisciplinary team and stakeholders as part of the project work. You will review processes, guidelines and standards to help guide service user engagement in their care pathway and will be under the supervision and management of the clinical director. You will support clinical team working, including support for interventions and training programmes. You will be an innovative thinker, developing new initiatives and ways of working, whilst working closely with internal/ external agencies to enhance treatment pathways for service users.</p>
<p>Your career at Elysium will be rewarding and fulfilled, where you can take pride in knowing that you've made a difference. While you're caring for service users, improving their lives and looking out for your colleagues, we'll be looking after you. With Wellbeing support and activities to support your mental health, a range of benefits that can save you money and make a difference, and development to nurture your career.</p>
<p><strong>What you will be doing</strong></p>
<ul>
    <li>To provide knowledge and experience of supporting the provision of psychology services in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams</li>
    <li>To support and advise on psychological assessments of patients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological (and neuropsychological) tests</li>
    <li>To support and advise implementation of formulating plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of service users mental health problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.</li>
    <li>To support and advise on implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models.</li>
    <li>To provide guidance in ensuring Psychology practices in the specified area of service maintains the highest standards of professional practice and ethics, complying with clinical governance standards at all times.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>To be successful in this role, you will have:</strong></p>
<ul>
    <li>Successful completion of a Doctorate level qualification in applied psychology either through the British Psychological Society or a recognised training body, enabling registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.</li>
    <li>Experience (either pre-training, on training, or subsequently) of working with clients with complex needs that are relevant to the population in the service area. This can include learning difficulty, neurodiversity and complex trauma.</li>
    <li>Experience of providing clinical supervision to Assistant and trainee Psychologists, as directed by the Lead Psychologist</li>
    <li>Experience in assessing, formulating and working therapeutically with patients in the service area.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Where you will be working:</strong></p>
<p>Location: Arbury Court, Townfield Lane, Winwick, Warrington, Cheshire, WA2 8TR</p>
<p>Arbury Court provides medium and low secure care and Psychiatric Intensive Care (PICU) for women aged 18 years and over with Personality Difficulties and mental illness. Each service within the site has a unique focus, ensuring that the needs of all women can be met. Patients can move through services as their needs change, to focus on the next step in their recovery journey.</p>
<p>The service offers a personalised assessment and recovery-based treatment pathway for women with complex needs. Using the rehabilitation and recovery treatment approach, we ensure that care is focused on the person.</p>
<p><strong>What you will get:</strong></p>
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    <li>Annual salary of £55,690</li>
    <li>The equivalent of 25 days annual leave (inc Bank Holidays) – plus your birthday off!</li>
    <li>Free meals and parking</li>
    <li>Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.</li>
    <li>24-hour GP Service to ensure you are the best you can be</li>
    <li>Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.</li>
    <li>Pension contribution to secure your future.</li>
    <li>Life Assurance for added peace of mind.</li>
    <li>Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time.</li>
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<p>There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.</p>
<p><strong>About your next employer:</strong></p>
<p>You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities &amp; Autism, Children &amp; Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.</p>
<p>Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.</p>
<p><em>Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.</em></p>
		
	
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<p><strong>Rethink Mental Illness are hiring a Housing Management Officer to join our&nbsp;inspiring and friendly team at Topping Mill, Bury.</strong></p><p><strong>Imagine being part of an organisation whose common purpose is to help those who are severely impacted by mental illness. We believe that everyone should be treated with respect and dignity – and that’s why equity is one of our core values.</strong></p><p>Our Topping Mill Service provides stable transition accommodation and support, to people over the age of 18, for up to five years. Our supported living accommodation provides person-centred support, based on their recovery journey. This will enable users to move onto housing within the community. 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