Health Educator - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Description

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

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.

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.

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.

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 neces