Mental Health Support Worker Southport
Job description
Are you caring, compassionate, flexible and have excellent communication skills? If yes, we have career opportunities available for you within Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust as a Nursing / Health Care Assistant. NVQ in Health and Social Care and/or experience of working in a care environment is essential. Shortlisted applicants will be invited for interview, where we will be able to discuss the many and varied opportunities that are available Shift patterns on a 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year basis Be flexible when acuity is high to work in our other local services 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. Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people. 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. We need you to help us achieve and deliver our ambition. These clinical divisions provide mental health, brain injury, addiction and child and adolescent mental health services in different areas across Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Warrington. We are looking for nursing and health care assistants for our inpatient wards. Posts will be based in: older adult and adult acute mental health male and female. We are committed to helping staff balance work and home life and welcome applications from applicants wishing to work part-time or with flexible working arrangements
