Main area: Learning Disabilities - Bank
Grade: Band 3
Contract: Bank
Hours: Flexible working - 0 hours per week (As and When Required)
Job ref: 350-MHCBank6750814
Site: V7 Building
Town: Prescot
Salary: £24,071 - £25,674 pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 01/11/2024 23:59
Job overview
Are you caring, compassionate, flexible and have excellent communication skills? If so, then we would like you to join us as a Nursing / Health Care Assistant on the Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Bank where you will support our clinical teams 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. We are currently looking for applications for our specialist community Learning disabilities team, covering the Sefton Area.
Main duties of the job
We support individuals with a range of complex physical and mental health needs. The MDT is made up of Nursing, Psychology, Psychiatry, Physio, OT and SALT. There are opportunities to develop within the team and within the team and trust.
* 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’ activities and leisure, 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.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* 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 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 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 user in the community (where appropriate).
* To carry out specific duties that contributes 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 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.
* Provide advice and guidance related health promotion to the service user.
* Plan social and therapeutic work with service user using a range of therapeutic approaches.
* Participate in presenting multi-disciplinary reviews, daily reviews and handovers.
Person specification
Experience
* Experience working in a care setting.
* Experience of individuals with mental health problems or personal lived experience of mental health problems.
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.
* Good standard of education.
* Qualification in craft, domestic skills, leisure or health equivalent to City & Guild Part 1, or 2 year experience working in a health setting.
Values
* Accountability
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
Skills
* Ability to provide support and guidance to junior staff.
Qualifications
* Care Certificate
* Health & Social Care Level 2
* Phlebotomy trained
* Physical Health competency basic passport
* MEWS
* Level 2 Smoking Cessation
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.
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: Laura Howard
Job title: Team Manager, Learning Disabilities team
Email address: laura.howard@merseycare.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01704 383030
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