Site Mid Mersey Inpatient wards, St Helens, Knowlsey, Halton, Warrington Town St Helens
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 30/01/2025 23:59
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 ethnic minorities, 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.
Job overview
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: A
ccountability R
espect S
upport 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 multidisciplinary team and liaise with all agencies to promote safe and up-to-date practice for service users. 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
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 tasks 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
NMC registration (RNMH) EXPERIENCE
Experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems. A demonstrated understanding of Equality and Human Rights. VALUES
Accountability Support KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Able to communicate effectively. Possess 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs. 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. Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you. We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications. The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email sensitive@dbs.gsi.gov.uk) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed. Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. Name: Alan Thompson Job title: Modern Matron - St Helens Email address: alan.thompson@merseycare.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01744627501 Additional information: Cath Borrows, Modern Matron - Knowsley, cath.borrows@merseycare.nhs.uk Rebecca Abbott - Acting Modern Matron Halton, Rebecca.Abbott2@merseycare.nhs.uk Kathy Marciano, Modern Matron Warrington - Kathleen.Marciano@merseycare.nhs.uk
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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: A
ccountability R
espect S
upport 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 multidisciplinary team and liaise with all agencies to promote safe and up-to-date practice for service users. 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
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 tasks 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
NMC registration (RNMH) EXPERIENCE
Experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems. A demonstrated understanding of Equality and Human Rights. VALUES
Accountability Support KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Able to communicate effectively. Possess 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs. 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. Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you. We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications. The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email sensitive@dbs.gsi.gov.uk) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed. Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. Name: Alan Thompson Job title: Modern Matron - St Helens Email address: alan.thompson@merseycare.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01744627501 Additional information: Cath Borrows, Modern Matron - Knowsley, cath.borrows@merseycare.nhs.uk Rebecca Abbott - Acting Modern Matron Halton, Rebecca.Abbott2@merseycare.nhs.uk Kathy Marciano, Modern Matron Warrington - Kathleen.Marciano@merseycare.nhs.uk
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