Job summary
- Main area
- Secure Mental Health Care
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 350-MHC6286359-A-E
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Rowan View Hospital
- Town
- Maghull
- Salary
- £24,625 - £25,674 Per Annum Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/07/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 01/08/2025
Employer heading
Nursing Assistant - Rowan View Hospital
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 for our service based at Rowan View, Maghull Health Park.
This is the perfect opportunity for those who have experience of working within a mental health setting and want to expand on their skills by working for a service that provides forensic and secure mental health services.
We are one of only three Trusts in the country to provide high secure services, with our catchment area covering Wales and the North West and West Midlands of England.
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
1. To coordinate the assessment and delivery of a planned programme of care with guidance
and indirect supervision from a qualified practitioner and to contribute to formal assessment
and delivery of an individuals plan of care.
2. To assist with activities of daily living, social, recreational and occupational activities as
agreed in the service user care plan.
3. To report general observations and provide feedback to a qualified practitioner both verbally
and in written formats, if required. This should include any concerns arising from the service
user physical or mental health.
4. To contribute to effective running of the service by providing and receiving information
to/from other departments or services. Ensure this information is provided in the most
effective way i.e. telephone, fax or in writing.
5. To assist service users with self-administration of oral medication and ensure any concerns /
issues about medication are reported back to a qualified practitioner.
6. To use a variety of verbal and non-verbal skills to overcome communication barriers
presented by service users due to their mental health needs.
7. To contribute to maintaining a safe environment for service user in the community (where
appropriate).
8. To carry out specific duties that contributes to the assessment of service users as requested
by a qualified practitioner.
9. To develop and maintain links with other agencies and services, both statutory and
voluntary (where appropriate).
10. To use skills and techniques, to de-escalate situations where service users become physically
or verbally aggressive.
11. To carry out observations and inform the Registered Nurse of any concerns. e.g.
temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure, diet and fluid intake, weight as requested
by a qualified practitioner.
12. To contribute to the development of risk management plans for service users by reporting,
to the qualified practitioner any issues or concerns regarding service users behaviour /
action towards themselves or others.
13. Respond to the changing needs of service users.
14. Control the assessments of implemented individual service users care plans.
15. To undertake and understand the support of observations as per policy tbc (Levels 1- 4)
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Health and Social Care Level 2 qualification or equivalent experience.
Desirable criteria
- Phlebotomy trained
- Physical Health competency basic passport
- MEWS
- Level 2 Smoking Cessation
- Care Certificate
- 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.
KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE:
Essential criteria
- Able to communicate effectively
- Understanding of issues of confidentiality
- 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
- Experience working in a care setting
Desirable criteria
- Experience of individuals with mental health problems or personal lived experience of mental health problems
Skills
Essential criteria
- 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
- Lara Mills-Jones
- Job title
- Project Coordinator
- Email address
- [email protected]
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