Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health Inpatient
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift work)
- Job ref
- 350-MHC6392306
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Knowsley Resource and Recovery Centre
- Town
- Knowsley
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Healthcare Assistant
Band 3
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Job overview
Are you are caring and compassionate individual looking to make a positive difference to patient care? An exciting opportunity has arisen on Grasmere Ward to join the team - Female acute assessment unit at Whiston Hospital. If you would like the opportunity to make a difference to people's lives and support them through the admission pathway come and join the team.
The role of a Health Care Assistant is vital to ensure we deliver safe, high quality care to our service users.
As a must you will be:
• Passionate about delivering high levels of care and supporting people with a range of mental health or physical health diagnosis.
• An effective communicator and listener.
• Flexible in terms of delivering care within a variety of environments.
• Working effectively as part of a team.
Shortlisting planned for 12 July 2024
Interview planned for 16 July 2024
Main duties of the job
To carry out assigned duties, involving direct care and observation of service users under the guidance and indirect supervision of qualified staff.
To report to the qualified staff any observations made whilst providing care to service users activities and leisure, providing details of mental state and risk factors.
To work with service users on an individual and group basis as outlined in the care plan and as directed by the appropriate named lead professional.
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
To carry out assigned duties, involving direct care and observation of service users under the guidance and indirect supervision of qualified staff.
To report to the qualified staff any observations made whilst providing care to service users activities and leisure, providing details of mental state and risk factors.
To work with service users on an individual and group basis as outlined in the care plan and as directed by the appropriate named lead professional.
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Care Certificate
- Health & Social Care Level 2
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to provide support and guidance to junior staff
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a care setting
Desirable criteria
- experience of individuals with mental health problems or personal lived experience of mental health problems
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Able to communicate effectively
- Understanding of the issues of confidentiality
- Willing to work towards Level 3 Health care
- Ability to demonstrate a non-judgemental attitude
- Ability to work on own initiative under the supervision of a qualified practitioner
Desirable criteria
- Good standard of education.
- Qualification in craft,domestic skills, leisure or health equivalent to City & Guild Part 1, or 2 year experience working in a health setting
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Transparency and honesty
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Leigha Rigby
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 351 8612
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