Nursing Assistant - Secure Care Division (Male only)

North West Borough Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Sefton; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting Nursing Assistants for our secure services across the region. This role supports specialised forensic and secure mental health care and requires working as part of a multidisciplinary team in a sensitive environment.

The position is open to applicants who meet the person specification and can demonstrate how they deliver compassionate, respectful care while upholding confidentiality and safeguarding standards.

Qualifications

• Health and Social Care Level 2 or equivalent experience.
• Experience of working in a care setting.
• Ability to work as part of a team and support colleagues.
• Ability to communicate effectively with patients, families and colleagues.
• Demonstrate confidentiality and professional integrity.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct care within secure mental health services.
• Support and guidance to junior staff as required.
• Maintain confidentiality and adhere to safeguarding and information governance.
• Work within a multidisciplinary team to deliver patient-centred care.

Skills

Communicate effectively

Teamwork

Non-judgemental attitude

Mentor junior staff

Education

Health and Social Care Level 2

Phlebotomy trained

Job description

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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Identity verification

Candidates attending interview will be required to provide original photographic identification where available. Where suitable photographic identification is not available, a photograph will be taken at interview for identity verification purposes. Successful candidates will also be required to complete digital identity and right to work checks via TrustID, including facial recognition and image matching technology, to verify their identity throughout the recruitment and onboarding process. Identity verification will also be undertaken on the first day of employment in line with NHS employment check requirements.

Job overview

We are recruiting Nursing Assistants for our service across all of Secure Services.

This is the perfect opportunity for those who have experience of working within a mental health setting and want to expand on their skills by working for a service that provides forensic and secure mental health services.

We are one of only three Trusts in the country to provide high secure services, with our catchment area covering Wales and the North West and West Midlands of England.

A recruitment and retention premia (£600 - £4034) is available for roles in Secure Care dependant on allocations. Allocations are determined by the service; premia will reflect service allocation.

A Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) is not available for this vacancy. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK and be able to maintain this throughout their employment if appointed.

Due to a genuine occupational requirement, this role is currently restricted to male applicants.

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 refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details and requirements of the role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Health and Social Care Level 2 accredited qualification or equivalent experience

Desirable criteria

• Phlebotomy trained
• Physical Health competency basic passport
• MEWS
• Level 2 Smoking Cessation
• Care Certificate
• 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.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working in a care setting
• 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

Desirable criteria

• Experience of individuals with mental health problems or personal lived experience of mental health problems

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Able to communicate effectively
• Understanding of issues of confidentiality

Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to support and guidance to junior staff

Values

Essential criteria

• Continuous improvement - committed to making improvements to our services for the benefit of all.
• Accountability - taking ownership to anticipate, develop and deliver high quality care.
• Respect - how we treat others in an inclusive and supportive way.
• Enthusiasm - demonstrate our passion and pride for what we do and how we do it.
• Support - actively supporting others with compassion and courage.

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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.

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