Main area Urgent Care - Mental Health Services Grade Band 3
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 15 hours per week (Shift work, nights and days.)
Job ref: 350-MHC6940759
Site: Aintree Hospital
Town: Fazakerley
Salary: £24,071 - £25,674 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 03/02/2025 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 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
Aintree Core 24 forms part of the 24/7 Urgent Care Model and urgent care pathway within Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. The 24/7 model provides mental health assessment, intensive community interventions, advice, support and guidance twenty four hours, seven days a week across several access points for individuals presenting in crisis.
These services include Southport District General Hospital, Aintree Hospital, The Royal at Liverpool, plus Whiston Hospital & Warrington Hospital.
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is a leading provider of mental health care, addiction services and learning disability care.
Service users receive a high-quality service that is free from stigma, discrimination, and harm.
Staff are engaged with the delivery, innovation, and continuous improvement of services to benefit service users.
Visible and responsive leadership sets the standard for others and is role-modelled throughout the division for all managers.
The Trust values of Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Respectfulness, and Enthusiasm will be embedded across the division for all staff and evident to service users.
Main duties of the job
1. To carry out assigned duties, involving direct care and observation of service users under the guidance and indirect supervision of qualified staff.
2. To report to the qualified staff any observations made whilst providing care to service users, providing details of mental state and risk factors.
3. 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.
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 offers 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
The Hospital Mental Health Liaison Team practitioners work alongside the multidisciplinary team within the acute hospital setting including medical and nursing teams, Community Mental Health Teams, Local Authority community services, and Voluntary sector.
The role will serve to identify and support patients who present within the acute hospital with a variety of mental health conditions alongside the potential of complex physical comorbidities. Individuals can present in crisis and display challenging or vulnerable behaviours who require a comprehensive mental health assessment to support and manage mental health problems and to contribute to the discharge planning process.
SW will have the opportunity to work across all ages from 16+ to older age and across both A+E and ward environments.
We are seeking adaptable, flexible, innovative mental health practitioners who wish to develop their professional skills within a hospital setting. This will involve completing mental health assessments and the ability to effectively signpost while forging links with community organisations across health and social care. You will build and maintain effective relationships with health professionals in the general hospital settings to raise awareness regarding individuals with mental health issues. You will be expected to work independently with confidence in order to make informed clinical decisions regarding appropriate signposting/discharge process.
The role includes supportive observations and also supports the 136 process in the A&E department.
Person specification
Qualifications
* NVQ Level 2 or willingness to work towards.
* Good standard of education.
Experience
* Experience of working in a care setting.
* Experience with individuals with Mental Health problems.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
* Able to communicate effectively.
* Understanding 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.
* Breakaway techniques and de-escalation.
Values
* Accountability.
* Support.
* High professional standards.
* Responsive to service users.
* Engaging leadership style.
* Transparency and honesty.
* Discreet.
* Change-oriented.
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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.
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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.
FULFIL YOUR POTENTIAL AND SPREAD YOUR WINGS WITH MERSEY CARE
At Mersey Care, our commitment to ‘perfect care’ lies at the heart of everything we do, a person-centred care that starts with you. It’s a pledge to create an environment and staff support that will enable you to do the best job you can possibly do, to be the best you can possibly be.
You’ll be joining one of the most innovative and progressive NHS trusts in the country. One that offers specialist inpatient and community services to support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services. We are the founding member of the Zero Suicide Alliance, and one of only three Trusts in the country which delivers high secure mental health care.
You’ll be made to feel at home, joining an 11,000 strong Mersey Care family comprising doctors and nurses, as well as countless other roles from dieticians to dentists, from data analysts to physiotherapists. You'll find a full list of our roles in our A-Z list.
You’ll have a home in the North West of England where your work/life balance is respected and working from sites easily commutable from Liverpool, Manchester, North Wales, and Cheshire with many roles operating a hybrid working system.
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