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Location

Southport, Merseyside | United Kingdom

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Job description

Are you caring, compassionate, flexible and have excellent communication skills?

Pine Ward are recruiting 1 Health Care Assistant.

We provide mental health inpatient services for adults in Southport, providing a safe and comfortable environment to promote recovery and mental wellbeing.

NVQ in Health and Social Care and/or experience of working in a care environment is essential.

Under the supervision of a qualified practitioner you will implement a range of individual and group activities. You will be required to use your initiative when working independently on the wards and are expected to report any clinical progress or change to a qualified practitioner.

You will work to assist with the continuity of care for service users on their journey through the acute service.

You will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users’ choice and works along side them and their carers to ensure they are at the centre of care planning.

You will carry out assigned tasks involving direct/indirect service user care and support service users under the supervision of a qualified practitioner.

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.

Principal Responsibilities:
• 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.

See attached job description for further details.

This advert closes on Sunday 7 Apr 2024

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