Mental Health Nursing Assistant - Flexible Hours & Impact

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Warrington; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job description

We are recruiting for multiple services across the Mersey Care footprint.

Are you ready to take the next step in your career and be part of something truly meaningful? We are recruiting for a number of services across Mersey Care, the Hospitals/Services we are recruiting for are:

• Kingsley Ward (Hollins Park Hospital, Warrington)
• Austen Ward (Hollins Park Hospital, Warrington)
• Sheridan Ward (Hollins Park Hospital, Warrington)
• Bridge Ward (The Brooker Centre, Halton)
• Weaver Ward (The Brooker Centre, Halton)

As part of our team, you’ll gain invaluable experience across mental health. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your skills, grow professionally, and make a lasting impact on the lives of patients and their families.

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Hannah Greenough
Job title: Recruitment Event Co-ordinator
Email address: [e-mail]