Main area Secure Care Physical Health Nursing Assistant Grade Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 350-SC7507503
Employer Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Maghull Health Park Town Maghull Salary £24,937 - £26,598 Financial incentives attached to this post see advertisement, Salary period Yearly Closing 23/11/2025 23:59
Health Care Assistant
Band 3
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 ethnically diverse, 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
Financial incentives of £3000 per annum attached to this post paid over 12 monthly instalments.
To provide support to the Physical health team within the secure Health Centre and administration staff. To work unsupervised when performing investigations both within the Health Centre and at ward level. To assist with escort duties, internally and externally for both patients and visitors.
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust as a leading provider of community services, mental health care, physical health, addiction services and learning disability care.
Service users receiving a high quality service and one which is free from stigma, discrimination and harm.
Visible and responsive leadership, setting the standard for others and role-modelled throughout the division for all managers
The Trust values of Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Respectfulness, Enthusiasm and Support will be embedded across the division for all staff and evident to service users.
To be able to respond appropriately to emergency situations.
To competently perform venepuncture / ECG’s within the Health Centre and at ward level as directed by the requesting clinicians.
To operate the radio communications set when required and be conversant with hospital radio network procedures.
To undertake full control and restraint training, manage situations of actual and potential C&R issues using either approved C&R techniques or verbal de-escalation skills.
Main duties of the job
To demonstrate excellent interpersonal communications skills to communicate factual information to patients to overcome barriers to understanding.
To work collaboratively, sharing knowledge and experience with peers to provide support through teamwork. Participate in regular team meetings.
To demonstrate appropriate skills to deal with patients with challenging behaviour. Be able to adapt to the unpredictable demands of the patient and the needs of the service.
To assist with therapeutic monitoring of all relevant medication, being aware of data information system.
To be aware of patients’ well‑being, taking into account mental, physical, security and potential violent issues, reporting any concerns to the nurse in charge.
To maintain responsibility for the Health & Safety aspects of the environment for self, colleagues and visitors.
To maintain quality control checks of all equipment within the Health Centre.
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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Commit to the vision of supporting Mersey Care in becoming a leading organisation in the provision of community services, mental health care, addiction services and learning disability care, and in doing so fully utilise their skills and experience to support the objectives of the Trust.
Role model the values of the Trust – Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Respectfulness, Enthusiasm and Support– in all activities and interactions with employees, service users and other stakeholders.
Challenge the stigma associated with mental health and learning difficulties.
Comply with the Duty of Candour, defined by Francis as: ‘The volunteering of all relevant information to persons who have or may have been harmed by the provision of services, whether or not the information has been requested and whether or not a complaint or a report about that provision has been made.’
Work across professional and organisational boundaries to improve services for all.
Maintain their specific knowledge base and develop new skills.
Value the contribution of the patient / service user voice.
Operate within any organisational codes of practice or those from a relevant professional body.
Respect equality and diversity across all areas of working practice and communications with staff, service users and other stakeholders.
Take responsibility for the accurate and timely collection and recording of data and ensuring all personally identifiable information is protected and used only for the purposes for which it was intended.
Comply with all health and safety legislation and local policies and procedures.
Adhere to all organisational policies.
Have knowledge and understanding of technology in the workplace which is sufficient to maintain their efficiency and also how technology can empower service users in a digital environment.
Comply with the NHS Constitution in relation to the staff responsibilities that it sets out for NHS employees.
This job description is intended as an outline indicator of general areas of activity and will be reviewed in light of the changing needs of the Trust in consultation with the post holder.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Evidence of studying for NVQ Level 3 in care or other relevant skills/academic based course or working towards this.
Values
* Accountability
* Support
Knowledge
* Experience / knowledge of working within a high secure environment and mental health problems
* Ability to fulfil escorting duties and breakaway training requirements as evident through medical screening
* Previous experience of phlebotomy, ECG recording and administrative work
* Smoking cessation trained.
Skills
* Ability to relate positively to people and to work within a changing and challenging environment
* Ability to work well within a team
* Willingness to maintain / develop skills and knowledge.
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