Do you have a passion for putting patients first and experience caring for service users with a Learning Disability and/or Autism diagnosis?
If you share our vision to support service users along their care pathway, ensuring appropriate assessment, engagement, and therapeutic activity, whilst aiming to support a timely discharge into the community, we would love to hear from you!
As a nursing assistant in our Learning Disability and Autism inpatient service, you will be required to carry out duties involving direct patient care and observation of service users under the guidance and supervision of qualified staff. The successful candidate will be self-motivated and able to work in a fast-paced environment.
Additionally, you will be able to work autonomously and as part of a well-established team while working with service users who may present with extreme challenging behaviour, including physical and verbal aggression, changes in mental health, forensic needs, and complex physical health needs.
Applicants must demonstrate a range of communication skills and techniques to enable positive communication with individuals who may have complex communication needs.
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 are also commissioned for services covering the North West, North Wales, and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services supporting physical and mental health, including inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK offering high secure mental health facilities.
At the core of our work is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient. We support our staff to excel and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to co-design future services. We are currently implementing a programme of organizational and service transformation to improve quality and reduce costs.
For further details or informal visits, contact:
Name: Nicola McNulty
Job title: Head of Nursing - Learning Disability
Email: Nicola.McNulty@merseycare.nhs.uk
For additional support, please contact:
SecureCareCareers@merseycare.nhs.uk
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