Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (various shift patterns available on a 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year basis.)
- Job ref
- 350-MHC6822068
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Liverpool Place
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £24,071 - £25,674 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/04/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 26/04/2025
Employer heading
Nursing Assistant - Liverpool Services
Band 3
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes 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 ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel 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.
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Job overview
We have are recruiting Nursing Assistants to be based at our services in Liverpool South areas, this is the perfect opportunity for those who may live locally to these services or surrounding areas.
Previous experience working in a care related role is essential.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do, they are:
Continuous improvement
Accountability
Respect
Enthusiasm
Support
If you share our values and want to be part of a team that makes a real difference, we want to hear from you.
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 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Mental Health Care Division
This clinical division provides mental health, brain injury and addiction services in different areas across Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Warrington.
Posts will be based in our Liverpool area : Broadoak, Leigh Moss, Rathbone, Windsor, Rathbone Rehab Centre and Heys Court sites
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a care environment
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Able to complete Trust's Care Certificate
- NVQ level 2 (accredited qualification) in Health and Social Care
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of basic care needs
- Understanding of confidentiality
- Ability to demonstrate a non-judgemental attitude
- Ability to work on own initiative under the supervision of a registered practitioner
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to communicate effectively
- Able to work as part of a team
- Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues in the health care setting
- Ability to communicate in a variety of settings with service users of varying levels of understanding
- Ability to undertake clinical interventions
Values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate a commitment to respecting and displaying the Trust Values (Continuous improvement, Accountability, Respect, Enthusiasm, Support)
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
- Victoria Peat
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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