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Nursing Assistant - Liverpool Place

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Job summary

A leading health organization in Liverpool is seeking committed Nursing Assistants to provide high standards of care in mental health settings. As part of a dynamic clinical team, you will support patients and assist with care plans across various services. This full-time, permanent role offers a salary between £24,625 and £25,674 per annum, with opportunities to develop your skills through training and qualifications.

Qualifications

  • Previous experience working in a care related role is essential.
  • Good standard of education required.
  • Willingness to work towards further qualifications.

Responsibilities

  • Support clinical team in delivering high standard of care.
  • Assist with duties as directed by registered staff.
  • Ensure patients are at the center of care and treatment planning.

Skills

Effective communication
Teamwork
Non-judgmental attitude
Initiative under supervision
Support to junior staff

Education

Health and Social Care Level 2 qualification
Care Certificate
Phlebotomy trained
Basic physical health competency
Level 3 Health Care qualification (willing to work towards)

Job description

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

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:

A ccountability

R espect

S upport

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 acrossa 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
  • Experience of working in a care setting.
  • Understanding of issues of confidentiality.
  • Experience of individuals with mental health problems or personal lived experience of mental health problems.
Qualifications
  • Health and Social Care Level 2 qualification or equivalent experience.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Accountability
  • Support
  • High professional standards
  • Responsive to service users
  • Engaging leadership style
  • Transparency and honesty
  • Discreet
  • Change oriented

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Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email sensitive@dbs.gsi.gov.uk ) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

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