Nursing Assistant - Secure Liverpool, England
Job description
In Autumn 2023 Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust will be opening Aspen Wood, a brand new purpose built, state of the art hospital that provides specialist learning disability services to 40 service users that require Low Secure services.
Aspen Wood will offer world class care in a new therapeutic environment delivering an entirely new model of secure learning disability care. The new hospital will cater for up to 40 men and women with a diagnosis of learning disability, autism and comorbid conditions, needing care and treatment in conditions of a low secure setting. Each patient will have their own bedroom with en-suite bathroom, plus a range of activity areas and therapeutic spaces.
Candidates will be employed to start in Aspen Wood when it opens in the Autumn of 2023 however will be placed in another service on the Maghull Health Park until whilst awaiting the opening.
Since the 1st November 2021 a Recruitment & Retention premia has been introduced to attract and retain staff working within the Secure Care Division in High, Medium and Low Secure Services and further support our “Grow Our Own Strategy”. For our nursing assistants this will be a premia of £600.
Working as a nursing assistant you will be required to carry out assigned duties involving direct patient care and observation of service users under guidance and supervision of qualified staff.
You will be required to report to the qualified nursing staff any observations made whilst providing care to service users including details of mental state and risk factors.
You will work with service users on an individual and group basis as outlined in their care plan and as directed by the appropriate named lead professional.
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.
Please see attached job description and person specification for full details.
For more information, please contact [email protected]
