Health Educator

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

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; it operates within a social approach that focuses on prevention and the enabling of community and community assets to encourage system change.

We have an exciting opportunity to join the team that delivers our Learning Pillar . We are recruiting an enthusiastic and driven individual to join The Life Rooms Team as a Health Educator. This is a permanent position.

The Learning Pillar has recently been reviewed and remodelled to incorporate a graduated approach to learning that is reflective of the components of health activation: knowledge, skills and confidence. The post holder will have the opportunity to develop and deliver the new curriculum offer. The Health educator will deliver courses (including accredited courses) that facilitate an increase in health activation.

The post holder will join the Learning Team which has posts including:

Learning Delivery Manager
Health Activation Lead
Health and Wellbeing Coaches
Learning and Skills Facilitators
Social Activity Worker

Main duties of the job

The role of the Health Educator is to deliver a range of accredited and non-accredited group courses as part of the Activation through Learning Model as part of the Learning Pillar, contributing to the implementation of The Life Rooms Social Model of Health. The Health Educator will support the design and provision of a health and wellbeing focussed curriculum to ensure a preventative approach in supporting mental and physical health, encouraging activation and aiming to improve population health.

The Health Educator will be part of a team of staff from a range of learning, education and health and wellbeing backgrounds in order to deliver an inclusive, culturally competent and responsive curriculum based on the needs of local communities to promote self-management and empower individuals to live healthier and happier lives.

About us

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.

Date posted

13 February 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£28,407 to £34,581 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

350-COR6019323

Job locations

Delivery at sites across Liverpool and Sefton with a main base at Walton Life Rooms

Evered Avenue

Liverpool

L9 2AF

Job description

Job responsibilities

Design and deliver and evaluate non-accredited health and wellbeing courses as support health activation.

Deliver and evaluate accredited health and wellbeing courses to support health activation.

Follow all learning operational processes to ensure accurate monitoring and recording of service activity including enrolment, attendance, outcome measures, service user feedback, curriculum governance and content development.

Contribute towards the provision of a comprehensive curriculum utilising 80% of post holder capacity in face-to-face delivery.

To travel and facilitate in a range of Life Rooms and peripatetic sites across a designated footprint.

Contribute to the maintenance of ongoing registration with accredited providers.

Awareness of and commitment to evidence-based practice to inform design and delivery. This may include educational theory, local and national initiatives and health and wellbeing priorities.

Ensure a fully differentiated curriculum and resources are available and delivered to enable participation and learning for people with a range of additional and/or specialist needs.

Be responsible for the application of differentiation methods to ensure an equitable learning offer that is inclusive of a range of learning needs and styles.

Ensure culturally appropriate and diverse materials and tailored delivery that are accessible to a range of communities.

To provide oversight of service journey through a stepped approach to learning to ensure service users are accessing a suitable learning level to meet their needs.

Maintain a focus to support service users to increase independence in engaging with community assets through establishing transition pathways and self management approaches.

Have an awareness of community assets and support service users to access appropriately, liaising with partners where necessary to facilitate engagement or transition.

Collect service activity data and outcome measures that contribute towards evidencing the impact of interventions.

Collate and present service activity data and outcome measures that contribute towards evaluation, quality and performance processes.

To monitor, promote and sustain service user engagement through proactive communications and positive relationship building to support attendance and completion rates.

To participate in Quality Improvement projects under the guidance of The Learning Delivery Manager and Quality Improvement Partner.

To follow and uphold governance procedures within the service.

Facilitate co-production processes within the activation through learning model to ensure the curriculum is based on identified, emerging and informed need.

To provide appropriate support to individuals experiencing mental and emotional distress or presenting with challenging behaviour, whilst maintaining professional boundaries.

To follow and implement safeguarding policy where required, reporting incidents through the Trusts Incident Reporting system.

To support staff within line management structure when dealing with a safeguarding concern or issue.

To provide leadership to staff within the line management structure.

To adhere to line management and supervision process including HR and staff development.

To support with recruitment processes within the learning team.