Job vacancy: Health Educator, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool

Job summary

Main area: Health Educator - Corporate
Grade: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 350-TWS6169281

Employer: Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Delivery at sites across Liverpool and Sefton with a main base at Walton Life Rooms
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £28,407 - £34,581 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/05/2024 23:59
Interview date: 10/05/2024

Health Educator

Band 5

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Detailed job description and main 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 Trust’s 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.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Educated to degree level in health or education related subject
Willingness to undertake training related to delivering all elements of accredited courses

Desirable criteria

Mental Health First Aid accredited

Knowledge/Experience

Essential criteria

An understanding of the social determinants of health and how they impact activation, health and wellbeing
Understanding of the Social Model of Health
Knowledge of educational models and learning theories and their application to practice
Knowledge of differentiation and a range of learning styles and their application to practice
An understanding of the impact of mental health conditions on an individuals’ activation and behaviour
Understanding of principles of behaviour change
Experience of designing and delivering health and wellbeing focused courses
Experience of working with people presenting with mental and physical health conditions, learning disabilities and those in emotional distress
Experience of utilising outcome measures to demonstrate impact
Knowledge of community assets within local areas to support self management
Knowledge of safeguarding processes
Knowledge and experience of line management processes

Desirable criteria

Awareness of local and national initiatives relating to mental and physical health and wellbeing
Awareness of the prevention agenda and it’s application to practice
Experience of delivering accredited courses

Skills

Essential criteria

Data collection
Fully literate in IT Systems and Microsoft programmes
Authoring and presenting reports
Delivery and Facilitation of Health and Wellbeing interventions
Group facilitation skills
Communication Skills
De-escalation Skills
Active listening
Supervision and coaching approaches
Ability to support people presenting in emotional or mental distress
Ability to work across a designated geographical area
Time management
Organisation
Ability to communicate both verbally and non-verbally to a range of audiences, adapting communication style where required
Design and adapting resources to ensure accessibility

Desirable criteria

Use of Electronic Referral Systems/Electronic Patient Record

Values

Essential criteria

Continuous Improvement
Accountability
Respectfulness
Enthusiasm
Support
High professional standards
Responsive to service users
Engaging leadership style
Strong customer service belief
Transparency and honesty
Discreet
Change oriented

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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 (01516761452 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.