Job Description
Are you caring, compassionate, flexible and have excellent communication skills?
If yes, we have career opportunities available for you within Mersey Care as a Nursing / Health Care Assistant.
NVQ in Health and Social Care and/or experience of working in a care environment is essential.
Shortlisted applicants will be invited to our recruitment event on 2nd June 2023 where you will be given an overview of the Trust, be able to discuss the many and varied opportunities that are available and will be interviewed on the day.
We have roles available across a variety of our services with various shift patterns on a 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year basis.
You will support the clinical team in the delivery of a high standard of care by assisting with and carrying out a range of duties as directed by registered staff. This will be in line with individual care and treatment plans for patients and service users.
You will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values patients, service users and their carers ensuring they are at the centre of care and treatment planning.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.
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.
We need you to help us achieve and deliver our ambition.
Mental Health Care
These clinical divisions provide mental health, brain injury, addiction and child and adolescent mental health services in different areas across Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Warrington. We are looking for nursing and health care assistants for our inpatient wards. Posts will be based in: complex care, older people’s services, adult acute mental health, specialist and rehabilitation wards.
Secure
This clinical division is responsible for providing specialised mental health and learning disability services in low, medium and high secure settings for service users with a primary classification of mental illness, and personality disorders. Our nursing assistants must be able to demonstrate compassion and empathy to our patients, working to improve the quality of care within a secure/forensic environment. In this division you’ll gain experience in forensic environments.
We are recruiting for our new state of the art low secure facility Aspen Wood that is opening in September 2023, the new low secure site will offer world class care in a new therapeutic environment delivering an entirely new model of secure learning disability care
Aspen Wood will have two wards, with their names chosen by service users: Hodder Ward (for female service users) and Mitton Ward (for males). There will also be a gym, café and a variety of therapeutic and clinical spaces. There will be public art, designed alongside service users, as well as extensive gardens and open spaces. Aspen Wood has been designed to provide a safe, therapeutic environment to support some of the most complex patients in the NHS, and enable them to move through services and reduce the length of stay.
In addition to the services above we are actively recruiting for roles that are based in our Low Secure Unit at Hollins Park, Warrington. This is the perfect work location for anyone who may live locally to the service.
A recruitment and retention premia is offered in the Secure division of up to £600.
Please refer to the job descriptions attached for each of our divisions - you will be able to discuss your work area and location preference on the day of our recruitment event.
Community
This clinical division delivers community health services to people in their own homes, health centres and clinics, schools, NHS walk-In centres and our older adults intermediate care ward at Aintree University Hospital site.
As well as the many community nursing services, this division delivers specialist dental health care, therapies, sexual health, medicines management and nutrition and dietetics services. Our teams work closely with GPs and other health and social care services to ensure patients are cared for with the best support, in or closer to their home.
Our services enable people to remain as independent as possible and many are delivered 24 hours, seven days a week.
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