Nursing Assistant - Learning Disability & Autism inpatient services

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Warrington; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in the UK is looking for a Nursing Assistant to provide direct care and support to service users with Learning Disabilities and Autism. The role involves working with challenging behaviours and requires strong communication skills. Candidates should be self-motivated and able to work well both independently and in a team environment. This position plays a vital part in delivering high-quality care within a supportive framework.

Qualifications

• Experience caring for individuals with Learning Disability and/or Autism.
• Demonstrate a range of communication skills for positive interactions.
• Ability to manage challenging behaviours, including physical and verbal aggression.

Responsibilities

• Carry out direct patient care and observe service users.
• Report observations to qualified staff.
• Work with service users on an individual and group basis.

Skills

Communication skills

Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Teamwork

Job description

A Vacancy at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.


Do you have a passion for putting patients first and experience caring for service users with a Learning Disability and/or Autism diagnosis?

If you share our vision to support service users along their care pathway ensuring appropriate assessment, engagement and therapeutic activity; whilst aiming to support a timely discharge into the community - we would love to hear from you!

As a nursing assistant in our Learning Disability and Autism inpatient service you will be required to carry out assigned duties involving direct patient care and observation of service users under guidance and supervision of qualified staff. The successful candidate will be self-motivated and able to work in a fast paced environment.

Additionally, you will be able to work autonomously and as part of a well-established team whilst working with service users who may present with extreme challenging behaviour including physical and verbal aggression, changes in mental health, forensic needs and complex physical health needs.

Applicants must be able to demonstrate a range of communication skills & techniques to enable positive communication to take place with individuals who may have complex communication needs.

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.

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.

Please see attached job description and person specification for full details.


This advert closes on Sunday 20 Jul 2025