Job summary
We are recruiting for our acute wards offering care and treatment to adults age 18 onwards at the following sites:
- Knowsley Resource and Recovery Centre
- Peasley Cross Hospital, St Helens
- Brooker Centre, Halton
- Hollins Park Hospital, Warrington
This is an exciting opportunity for individuals interested and committed to delivering excellent service user care within a safe, secure, and therapeutic environment.
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.
Through working for Mersey Care 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.
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.
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.
This will include working a variety of shift patterns including earlies, lates , long days and night duties.
To promote and provide safe and good patient care to all service users and support their families
To be able to work within a team and autonomously when appropriate to ensure that service is delivered.
To work as part of a multi disciplinary team and liaise with all agencies to promote safe and up to date practice for service users.
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Assess patient/client conditions and consider a range of options when delivering complex and highly complex clinical care.
Maintain clinical credibility by providing clinical care and supporting members of the team within the clinical environment
Ensure that clinical are appropriately delegated to the relevant team member.
Provide data that supports the monitoring of team contract and objectives.
Participate in audits and research, as required.
Participate in individual and group supervision.
In conjunction with the service management, ensure systems are in place for the ongoing review and assessment of care provision and delivery.
Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk, reporting identified risks to the service management
Report any incidents as per Trust policies and support any investigations as delegated by the service lead.
Participate in patient satisfaction reporting to improve patient care.
Provide support to team members holding responsibility for mentoring students.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Assess patient/client conditions and consider a range of options when delivering complex and highly complex clinical care.
Maintain clinical credibility by providing clinical care and supporting members of the team within the clinical environment
Ensure that clinical are appropriately delegated to the relevant team member.
Provide data that supports the monitoring of team contract and objectives.
Participate in audits and research, as required.
Participate in individual and group supervision.
In conjunction with the service management, ensure systems are in place for the ongoing review and assessment of care provision and delivery.
Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk, reporting identified risks to the service management
Report any incidents as per Trust policies and support any investigations as delegated by the service lead.
Participate in patient satisfaction reporting to improve patient care.
Provide support to team members holding responsibility for mentoring students.
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Appropriate professional qualification
- NMC registration (RNMH)
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems
- A demonstrated understanding of Equality and Human Rights
VALUES
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Essential
- Able to communicate effectively
- Posses good listening and negotiation skills
- Ability to work as a member of a team
- Be able to demonstrate a sound knowledge base regarding: Effective Care Co-ordination, Care Planning and evaluation, Quality and clinical audit, Health & Safety/Risk Management, Mental Health Act
- Demonstrate a good knowledge of the Code of Conduct and the nurse's responsibility to identify gaps in their knowledge base
- Demonstrate knowledge in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship and supervision.
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Appropriate professional qualification
- NMC registration (RNMH)
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems
- A demonstrated understanding of Equality and Human Rights
VALUES
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Essential
- Able to communicate effectively
- Posses good listening and negotiation skills
- Ability to work as a member of a team
- Be able to demonstrate a sound knowledge base regarding: Effective Care Co-ordination, Care Planning and evaluation, Quality and clinical audit, Health & Safety/Risk Management, Mental Health Act
- Demonstrate a good knowledge of the Code of Conduct and the nurse's responsibility to identify gaps in their knowledge base
- Demonstrate knowledge in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship and supervision.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
