Nursing Assistant Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust inSouthport inSouthport PUBLISHED
THU 9 JAN 2025
Tripple Tree Ltd rdS08i7l
Integral Role in Patient Care, As a Nursing Assistant, you will be at the heart of delivering person-centred care in an acute mental health setting.
Supportive Multidisciplinary Team, Work collaboratively with a diverse team of healthcare professionals, enhancing your networking and teamwork skills.
Opportunities for Professional Development, Access to various development and training courses to enrich your skill set and advance your career in healthcare.
Commitment to Values, Be part of an organization that prioritizes continuous improvement, accountability, respect, enthusiasm, and support, ensuring a positive work environment.
Dynamic Work Environment, Develop your leadership, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills while managing challenging situations.
Contribution to High-Quality Care, Support a trust that is dedicated to providing safe, effective, and timely care for over 1.4 million people across the region.
The Nursing Assistant role at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust in Southport involves providing essential patient care on Pine Ward, an adult acute mental health unit. The successful candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, collaborating with healthcare professionals to ensure high standards of person-centred care. Key responsibilities include supporting the clinical team, assisting with care plans, and engaging with service users both individually and in groups. Applicants should have prior experience in a care setting and align with the Trust's values: Continuous improvement, Accountability, Respect, Enthusiasm, and Support. Opportunities for professional development and flexible working arrangements are available to foster a supportive and enriching work environment.
Mersey Care is a leading provider of integrated physical and mental health services in the North West, serving over 1.4 million people and prioritizing the delivery of safe, effective, and equitable care. The Trust is committed to transforming its services to enhance quality and reduce costs while collaborating with staff, service users, and their families in service design and delivery.
Mersey Care is a leading provider of integrated physical and mental health services in the North West, serving over 1.4 million people and prioritizing the delivery of safe, effective, and equitable care. The Trust is committed to transforming its services to enhance quality and reduce costs while collaborating with staff, service users, and their families in service design and delivery.
As a Nursing Assistant, youll be at the heart of patient care. Join our team on Pine Ward, which is a 20 bedded adult acute mental health mixed ward based at Hartley Hospital, Southport.
Youll be an integral part of a multidisciplinary team, working closely with nurses, doctors, and other healthcare professionals to deliver outstanding person-centred care. Together, we create a supportive environment where each team members contributions are valued.
Youll be a vital part of our vision tolead the way in perfect, whole person care that helps people of all ages live healthier lives.
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.
Experience Of Working In a Care Setting Is Essential.
The range of skills you can learn and develop is expansive and varied. Working in this environment can encourage you to become a dynamic, creative, and strong leader as well provide you with the ability to think on your feet, problem solve and manage challenging situations.
On our wards we encourage staff to gain further knowledge by enriching their skills through the opportunity to enrol on many of our development and training courses.
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.
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. Were 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.
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.
This advert closes on Sunday 5 Jan 2025
Youll be an integral part of a multidisciplinary team, working closely with nurses, doctors, and other healthcare professionals to deliver outstanding person-centred care. Together, we create a supportive environment where each team members contributions are valued.
Youll be a vital part of our vision tolead the way in perfect, whole person care that helps people of all ages live healthier lives.
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.
Experience Of Working In a Care Setting Is Essential.
The range of skills you can learn and develop is expansive and varied. Working in this environment can encourage you to become a dynamic, creative, and strong leader as well provide you with the ability to think on your feet, problem solve and manage challenging situations.
On our wards we encourage staff to gain further knowledge by enriching their skills through the opportunity to enrol on many of our development and training courses.
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.
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. Were 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.
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.
This advert closes on Sunday 5 Jan 2025
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