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If so, then we would like you to join us as a Nursing / Health Care Assistant on the Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Bank where you will support our clinical teams in the delivery of a high standard of care by assisting with and carrying out a range of duties as directed by registered staff.
Are you caring, compassionate, flexible and have excellent communication skills?
If so, then we would like you to join us as a Nursing / Health Care Assistant on the Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Bank where you will support our clinical teams 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.
We are currently looking for applications for our specialist community Learning disabilities team, covering the Sefton Area.
We work 9-5 Monday – Friday
We support individuals with a range of complex physical and mental health needs.
The MDT is made up of Nursing, Psychology, Psychiatry, Physio, OT and SALT.
There are opportunities to develop within the team and within the team and trust.
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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Laura Howard Job title: Team Manager, Learning Disabilities team Email address: Telephone number: