Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Services
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working - 0 hours per week (Bank / Various)
- Job ref
- 350-CCBank6409931
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- V7
- Town
- Cheshire & Merseyside
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/07/2024 23:59
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Bank Health Practitioner Assistant - Community Care Division
Band 3
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Job overview
Are you caring, compassionate, flexible and have excellent communication skills?
If so, we have career opportunities available for you within Mersey Care as a Bank Nursing / Health Care Assistant.
NVQ in Health and Social Care and/or experience of working in a care environment is essential.
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.
Main duties of the job
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.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Community Care division delivers community health services to people in their own homes, health centres and clinics, 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.
Every year our staff deliver care to thousands of patients whilst talking to their families and carers. These hundreds of thousands of interactions mean that our staff are best placed to understand patients’ holistic health and social needs, including education, prevention and self care.
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.
We are committed to helping staff balance work and home life and welcome applications from applicants wishing to work part-time or with flexible working arrangements.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care
Knowledge/ Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous and current health and social care experience
- Understanding of the principles of GDPR (Data Protection Act)
- Health and Safety
- Equality and Diversity
- Good Computer skills/ECDL or equivalent
- Able to work without direct supervisor
- Able to plan own workload
- Ability to undertake clinical interventions commensurate to training, competency and qualifications
- Able to work as a team member.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to prioritise workload pro-actively
- Committed to raising standards in clinical areas
- Capable of working on own initiative
- Able to involve and listen to others
- Excellent developed oral, written and communication skills
- Able to keep accurate written and electronic contemporaneous records
- Able to work in a confidential and sensitive manner
- Able to travel for work purposes
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nichola Thomason
- Job title
- Senior Clinical Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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