Job summary
- Main area
- Secure Mental Health Services
- Grade
- Band 2-3 (development role)
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (across a 24hr service 7 days a week)
- Job ref
- 350-SC7469916
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Secure Care Division
- Town
- Merseyside
- Salary
- £24,465 Band 2 to 3 role with training and competency achievement.
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Nursing Assistant (New to Care) - Secure Care Division- - Male Only
Band 2-3 (development role)
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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
MALE APPLICANTS ONLY - We are currently recruiting male applicants only for this role, in line with a Genuine Occupational Requirement under the Equality Act 2010. This is to meet the specific needs of our service users in secure care settings.
This vacancy is for full time positions.
Looking for a meaningful career where you can truly make a difference? If you have transferable skills but no prior healthcare experience, we want to hear from you.
No healthcare experience? No problem. We provide comprehensive training to give you the knowledge, skills, and confidence to thrive in this role. This training is mandatory and forms a vital part of your development journey. This role will be paid at Band 2 until all required competencies are successfully completed.
The division delivers specialist secure mental health and learning disability services across low, medium, and high secure settings. We support individuals with complex needs, including those with a diagnosis of mental illness, personality disorders, learning disabilities, or autism, providing care in environments designed to ensure both safety and therapeutic progress.
To support our “Grow Our Own” strategy and attract and retain talented staff within the Secure Care Division, a Recruitment & Retention premia is available. For nursing assistants, this premia is £600 or £4,034, depending on service allocation. Allocations will be determined by the service and the premia will reflect the amount for that clinical area.
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
Please see attached job description and person specification for full details.
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. 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, we are supported with the use of therapeutic technology for the benefit of service users & staff including virtual reality and avatar therapy.
Rathbone Hospital - Low Secure:
Our Low Secure Unit provides mental health rehabilitation for men 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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Willingness to undertake the Care Certificate and work towards Level 2 qualification in Health and Social Care.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Willingness to undertake the Care Certificate and work towards Level 2 in Health and Social Care.
- 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.
- A demonstrated understanding of Equality and Human Rights
Skills
Essential criteria
- Basic IT skills, numeracy and literacy
Desirable criteria
- Care Certificate
Values
Essential criteria
- 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
- Lara Mills-Jones
- Job title
- Project Coordinator
- Email address
- [email protected]
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