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-MHC7222314-A
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sefton Place
- Town
- Liverpool & Southport
- Salary
- £24,625 - £25,674 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Nursing Assistant - Sefton Place
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
We are recruiting Nursing Assistants to be based at our services in our Sefton Place service line, these services include the following;
Dee, Morris, Irwell, Newton and Alt Ward (Clock View Hospital, Liverpool)
Pine Ward (Hartley Hospital, Southport)
We’re looking for individuals who are:
- Passionate about improving the lives of people in our services
- Empathetic and understanding in their approach
- Excellent communicators who thrive in a team setting
- Motivated to contribute to a high-performing, caring environment
If you’re driven by purpose and want to be part of a team that truly makes a difference, we’d love to hear from you.
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
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.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a care setting.
- Understanding of issues of confidentiality.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of individuals with mental health problems or personal lived experience of mental health problems.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Health and Social Care Level 2 qualification or equivalent experience.
Desirable criteria
- Care Certificate.
- Phlebotomy trained.
- Physical Health competency basic passport.
- MEWS
- Level 2 Smoking Cessation.
- 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.
- Willing to work towards Level 3 Health Care qualification.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to communicate effectively
- Ability to work as a member of a team
- Ability to demonstrate a non-judgemental attitude
- Ability to work on own initiative under the supervision of a qualified practitioner
- Ability to provide support and guidance to junior staff
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
- Hannah Greenough
- Job title
- Recruitment Event Co-ordinator
- Email address
- [email protected]
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