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Job overview

This vacancy is for full time, part time or bank only positions.

Are you caring, compassionate, flexible and have excellent communication skills?  If yes, we have career opportunities available for you.

NVQ in Health and Social Care and/or experience of working in a care environment is essential.  

DUE TO A GENUINE OCCUPATIONAL NEED, THIS ROLE IS BEING ADVERTISED FOR MALE APPLICANTS ONLY

Since the 1st November 2021 a Recruitment & Retention premia has been introduced to attract and retain staff working within the Secure Care Division in High, Medium and Low Secure Services and further support our “Grow Our Own Strategy”. For our nursing assistants this will be a premia of £600 or £4034* for those allocated to our High Secure Hospital.

We are looking for nursing assistants who can deliver care, compassion, and empathy to our patients, improving the quality of services within a secure forensic environment.  

The division is responsible for specialised secure mental health and learning disability services, in low, medium, and high secure settings for service users with a primary classification of mental illness, personality disorders, learning disabilities and autism. Working across the division as part of a multi-disciplinary team, you will contribute to the delivery of high standards of care and treatment to a complex group of service users.

*Allocations will be determined by the service; the R&R will reflect the premia for each specific clinical area.

Main duties of the job

Ashworth Hospital – High Secure:

Ashworth Hospital is one of three high secure hospitals in the country.  Ashworth provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary treatment & care for patients with a mental illness & have been assessed as presenting a grave & immediate danger to others. Patients remain in the high secure service until they are safe & well enough to move to conditions of lower security or return to prison. 

Rowan View – Medium Secure:

Rowan View provides specialist Learning Disability & Mental Health services over 8 wards. Opening in 2020 this state-of-the-art hospital provides care & treatment to men and women. Whilst relational security & the capacity to work in an individualized and therapeutic way are central to the treatment offer.

Rathbone Hospital and Hollins Park (Warrington) – Low Secure:

Our Low Secure Units provides mental health rehabilitation for men and women with mental health problems. The services monitor, manage, & reduce risk, whilst balancing therapy & security with the aim of helping prepare service users to lead a more independent life in the community.

Aspen Wood – Low Secure:

Aspen Wood is a new 40 bed specialist learning disability unit which opened to service users in March 2024. The site provides care for those who need the lowest level of security appropriate for them.

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.