Band 3
Main area: Mental Health - Secure Care Grade Band 3
Contract: Permanent
HSS recruitment & retention premia: £4034 per annum pro rata
Hours:
* Full time
* Part time
37.5 hours per week (Must be able to work across a 7 day week 24-hrs)
Job ref: 350-SC6795991-B
Site: Ashworth Hospital, Town: Merseyside
Salary: £24,071 - £25,674 per annum, pro rata - Plus a £4034* R&R premium will be offered
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 09/02/2025 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 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.
Job overview
Due to a Genuine Occupation Need, this position is for male applicants only.
Are you caring, compassionate, flexible and have excellent communication skills, with an NVQ in Health and Social Care and/or experience of working in a care environment? If yes, we have career opportunities available for you at Ashworth Hospital.
A recruitment and retention premia available for roles in Secure Care division. For our nursing assistants, this will be a premia of £4034* at Ashworth Hospital.
*NHS England commissioners have agreed to fund a recruitment and retention premium which will be introduced in February 2024 at Ashworth, and will be reviewed in 2028.
Main duties of the job
The division is responsible for specialised secure mental health and learning disability services, in low, medium and high secure settings for service users with a primary classification of mental illness, personality disorders, learning disabilities and autism.
This is an exciting and rewarding opportunity to gain invaluable experience in a specialist forensic environment.
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.
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.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To coordinate the assessment and delivery of a planned programme of care with guidance and indirect supervision from a qualified practitioner.
2. To assist with activities of daily living, social, recreational and occupational activities as agreed in the service user care plan.
3. To report general observations and provide feedback to a qualified practitioner.
4. To contribute to effective running of the service by providing and receiving information to/from other departments or services.
5. To assist service users with self-administration of oral medication.
6. To use a variety of verbal and non-verbal skills to overcome communication barriers presented by service users due to their mental health needs.
7. To contribute to maintaining a safe environment for service users in the community.
8. To carry out specific duties that contribute to the assessment of service users as requested by a qualified practitioner.
9. To develop and maintain links with other agencies and services.
10. To use skills and techniques to de-escalate situations where service users become physically or verbally aggressive.
11. To carry out observations and inform the Registered Nurse of any concerns.
12. To contribute to the development of risk management plans for service users.
13. Respond to the changing needs of service users.
14. Control the assessments of implemented individual service users care plans.
15. To undertake and understand the support of observations as per policy.
16. To carry out escorts with service users on and off the hospital site.
17. To support qualified nurses in the administration of medicines.
18. Provide advice and guidance related to health promotion to the service user.
19. Plan social and therapeutic work with service users using a range of therapeutic approaches.
20. Participate in presenting multi-disciplinary reviews, daily reviews and handovers.
21. Undertake surveys and audits.
22. Assist in the collection of data from a variety of resources.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Care Certificate
* Phlebotomy trained
* Physical Health competency basic passport
* MEWS
* Level 2 Smoking Cessation
KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE:
* Able to communicate effectively.
* Understanding of issues of confidentiality.
* Ability to work as a member of a team.
* Ability to demonstrate a non-judgmental attitude.
* Ability to work on own initiative under the supervision of a qualified practitioner.
* Willing to work towards Level 3 Health Care.
* Experience working in a care setting.
* Good standard of education.
* Qualification in craft, domestic skills, leisure or health equivalent to City & Guild Part 1, or 2 years experience working in a health setting.
* Experience of individuals with mental health problems or personal lived experience of mental health problems.
Values
* Accountability
* Respect
* Support
Skills
* Ability to provide support and guidance to junior staff.
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