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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
Employer
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Liverpool Place
Town
Liverpool
Salary
£24,625 - £25,674 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
30/06/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust logo

Nursing Assistant - Liverpool 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 have are recruiting Health care assistants  to be based at our services in Liverpool South areas, this is the perfect opportunity for those who may live locally to these services or surrounding areas.

Previous experience working in a care related role is essential. 

Our values are at the heart of everything we do, they are: 

Continuous improvement

Accountability

Respect

Enthusiasm

Support

If you share our values and want to be part of a team that makes a real difference, we want to hear from you. 

We have roles available across a variety of our services with various shift patterns on a 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year basis.

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. 

Posts will be based in our Liverpool area : Broadoak, Leigh Moss, Rathbone, Windsor, Rathbone Rehab Centre and Heys Court sites

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

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

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Fair Employment Charter Status - Aspiring LevelVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardCTP The Ministry of Defence partnering with Right ManagementNavajo - Merseyside and CheshireDisability confident employerCare Leaver CovenantStep into healthArmed Forces Covenant

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Lesley Osbaldestin
Job title
Modern Matron
Email address
[email protected]