Housekeeper (Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit) Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust inLiverpool inLiverpool PUBLISHED
SUN 5 JAN 2025
Opportunity to work in a vital role that directly impacts the well-being and safety of service users in a psychiatric setting.
Gain valuable skills and experience in a dynamic and challenging environment, enhancing both personal and professional growth.
Collaborative work within a dedicated and hard-working team that strives to provide high standards of care.
Access to training and development programs to enrich skills and advance career opportunities, including leadership courses.
Flexibility in working arrangements, promoting a better work-life balance for staff.
Engagement in a trauma-informed care approach, allowing staff to help create a supportive recovery-focused environment.
The Housekeeper for the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Newton Ward, Clock View Hospital, will play a vital role in maintaining a clean and safe environment for service users under the supervision of the nursing team. Responsibilities include assisting with nutritional needs, promoting independent personal care, managing a therapeutic space, and welcoming visitors. This position offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic and challenging setting while contributing to high-quality care for a diverse clientele experiencing mental health crises.
Joining the dedicated team at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, candidates will gain valuable skills in a supportive atmosphere that encourages personal and professional development, including access to various training courses. The PICU focuses on providing intensive assessment and treatment in a trauma-informed manner, aiming for patient safety while fostering recovery. Candidates seeking a rewarding role in a collaborative environment that prioritizes quality care and staff development are encouraged to apply.
Joining the dedicated team at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, candidates will gain valuable skills in a supportive atmosphere that encourages personal and professional development, including access to various training courses. The PICU focuses on providing intensive assessment and treatment in a trauma-informed manner, aiming for patient safety while fostering recovery. Candidates seeking a rewarding role in a collaborative environment that prioritizes quality care and staff development are encouraged to apply.
Come and join our fabulous new team on Newton Ward Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Clock View Hospital.
As a Housekeeper, under the supervision of the Registered Nurse and Nursing team, you will support in ensuring a clean and safe environment where the individual needs of our service users are met in a timely and effective manner utilising best practice.
Working as part of the team, you will help service users with their nutritional needs, assist in maintaining a clean and therapeutic environment, support and promote independent personal care as well as welcoming and greeting visitors to the ward.
This is an exciting opportunity for individuals interested and committed to delivering excellent service user care within a safe, secure, and therapeutic environment.
Newton ward is a dynamic and challenging environment, with a hard-working and dedicated staff team who strive to provide consistent, high standards of care to the diverse client base that we care for.
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 a challenging setting.
On Newton ward we encourage staff to gain further knowledge by enriching their skills through the opportunity to enrol on many of our development, leadership and training courses.
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.
Please View The Job Description For Detailed Responsibilities.
Newton Ward currently supports all wards across the Sefton, Liverpool and Kirkby footprint and of recent now provides psychiatric intensive care services to the whole of the Mental Health Division.
Newton Ward is 12 bedded mixed ward based at Clock View Hospital that provides short-term intensive assessment, treatment, and support to service users, who are experiencing a mental health crisis, and often present with a variety of complex mental health needs.
To maximise service user recovery, the team works in a trauma informed way. Our aim is to work in the least restrictive way as possible whilst maintaining patient safety.
Upon joining our team, we will ensure that you undergo both mandatory and bespoke training, to fully equip you with the skills required to work within our psychiatric intensive care environment.
This advert closes on Monday 30 Dec 2024
As a Housekeeper, under the supervision of the Registered Nurse and Nursing team, you will support in ensuring a clean and safe environment where the individual needs of our service users are met in a timely and effective manner utilising best practice.
Working as part of the team, you will help service users with their nutritional needs, assist in maintaining a clean and therapeutic environment, support and promote independent personal care as well as welcoming and greeting visitors to the ward.
This is an exciting opportunity for individuals interested and committed to delivering excellent service user care within a safe, secure, and therapeutic environment.
Newton ward is a dynamic and challenging environment, with a hard-working and dedicated staff team who strive to provide consistent, high standards of care to the diverse client base that we care for.
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 a challenging setting.
On Newton ward we encourage staff to gain further knowledge by enriching their skills through the opportunity to enrol on many of our development, leadership and training courses.
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.
Please View The Job Description For Detailed Responsibilities.
Newton Ward currently supports all wards across the Sefton, Liverpool and Kirkby footprint and of recent now provides psychiatric intensive care services to the whole of the Mental Health Division.
Newton Ward is 12 bedded mixed ward based at Clock View Hospital that provides short-term intensive assessment, treatment, and support to service users, who are experiencing a mental health crisis, and often present with a variety of complex mental health needs.
To maximise service user recovery, the team works in a trauma informed way. Our aim is to work in the least restrictive way as possible whilst maintaining patient safety.
Upon joining our team, we will ensure that you undergo both mandatory and bespoke training, to fully equip you with the skills required to work within our psychiatric intensive care environment.
This advert closes on Monday 30 Dec 2024
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