Main area: Mental health inpatient services
Grade: Band 3
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (various shift patterns available on a 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year basis. Part time available depending on service needs)
Job ref: 350-MHC6381997-C
Site: Coniston ward, Knowsley resource and recovery centre
Town: Whiston
Salary: £24,071 - £25,674 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 19/11/2024 23:59
Job overview
As a Nursing Assistant, you’ll be at the heart of patient care. Join our team on Coniston Ward, which is an 18 bed male acute mental health inpatient ward based at Knowsley Resource and Recovery Centre.
You’ll 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 member’s contributions are valued.
You’ll be a vital part of our vision to lead 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:
* Accountability
* Respect
* 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.
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.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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, 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.
To coordinate the assessment and delivery of a planned programme of care with guidance and indirect supervision from a qualified practitioner and to contribute to formal assessment and delivery of an individual’s plan of care.
To assist with activities of daily living, social, recreational and occupational activities as agreed in the service user care plan.
To report general observations and provide feedback to a qualified practitioner both verbally and in written formats, if required. This should include any concerns arising from the service user’s physical or mental health.
To contribute to effective running of the service by providing and receiving information to/from other departments or services. Ensure this information is provided in the most effective way i.e. telephone, fax or in writing.
To assist service users with self-administration of oral medication and ensure any concerns/issues about medication are reported back to a qualified practitioner.
To use a variety of verbal and non-verbal skills to overcome communication barriers presented by service users due to their mental health needs.
To contribute to maintaining a safe environment for service users in the community (where appropriate).
To carry out specific duties that contribute to the assessment of service users as requested by a qualified practitioner.
To develop and maintain links with other agencies and services, both statutory and voluntary (where appropriate).
To use skills and techniques to de-escalate situations where service users become physically or verbally aggressive.
To carry out observations and inform the Registered Nurse of any concerns, e.g. temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure, diet and fluid intake, weight as requested by a qualified practitioner.
To contribute to the development of risk management plans for service users by reporting to the qualified practitioner any issues or concerns regarding service users’ behaviour/action towards themselves or others.
Respond to the changing needs of service users.
Control the assessments of implemented individual service users care plans.
To undertake and understand the support of observations as per policy (Levels 1- 4).
To carry out escorts with service users on and off the hospital site.
To support qualified nurses in the administration of medicines by acting as a witness.
Person specification
Values
* Accountability
* Support
Experience
* Experience working in a care setting
Qualifications
* Able to complete Trust's Care Certificate
* Health & Social Care Level 2
Knowledge
* Able to communicate effectively
* Understanding of issues of confidentiality
* Ability to work as a member of a team
* Ability to demonstrate a non-judgemental attitude
* Ability to work on own initiative under the supervision of a qualified practitioner
* Willing to work towards Level 3 Health Care
Skills
* Ability to provide support and guidance to junior staff
We celebrate diversity and promote 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.
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.
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.
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 £13 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.
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