Job summary
- Main area
- Knowsley District Nursing Service
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Sunday (early & late shifts 8am-8pm))
- Job ref
- 350-CC7503252
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Bluebell Centre
- Town
- Huyton
- Salary
- £24,937 - £26,598 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
- Interview date
- 08/10/2025
Employer heading
Health Care Assistant
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 ethnically diverse, 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
Join our dedicated Knowsley District Nursing Service, where you will have the opportunity to provide compassionate care to patients in their homes and work in the community. We pride ourselves on delivering high-quality, patient-centred care and are seeking a motivated Health Care Assistant to support the District Nursing Service in Knowsley.
You will work closely with our District Nurses and wider healthcare teams as a Health Care Assistant. This role requires you to work independently and as part of a team, ensuring our patients receive the highest standard of care. Your duties will include assisting with clinical interventions such as clinical observations, wound care as directed by an appropriate professional, maintaining accurate records, having the ability to travel across the Knowsley borough, and delivering care sensitively and confidentially.
For the successful candidate, we offer a supportive and collaborative working environment, along with ample opportunities for further training and professional development. This is a chance to grow in your career while making a difference in the lives of our patients.
Main duties of the job
Principle Responsibilities:
- Work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Undertake a range of patient interventions within the scope of NVQ level 3 skills for patients as delegated by team leader or other qualified clinical staff.
- Offer advice to patients and carers on a wide range of health issues to include health promotion, lifestyle advice and self-care.
- Plan and organise own work schedule once delegated from team leader.
- Undertake basic patient observations.
- Work within existing clinical guidelines, policies and infection control procedures.
- Offer advice and support to patients and families in a wide range of situations.
- Communicate factual and sensitive information within confidentiality guidelines to patients, ensuring all information is appropriately documented and reported back to the team leader.
- Demonstrate own role to new starters and students.
- Ensure safe moving and handling techniques in the delivery of patient care, this can include the safe use of equipment.
- Communicate information to multi-disciplinary team and other agencies as appropriate.
See JD for further details.
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
Please see attached job description and person specification for the essential job criteria for full details. If you have any queries please contact the named person by email.
Person specification
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
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care
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 and written. 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
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
- Michael Turner
- Job title
- Operational Services Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07920544331
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