Nursing Assistant - Hartley Hospital in Sefton

Main area Inpatient Mental Health Services Grade Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (various shift patterns available on a 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year basis.) Job ref 350-MHC7309510

Employer Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Dunes & Pine Ward, Hartley Hospital Town Southport Salary £25,760 - £27,476 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 30/09/2026 23:59

Band 3

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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.

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Job overview

We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated Nursing Assistants to join our teams across Dunes Ward and Pine Ward at Hartley Hospital. This is a rewarding opportunity to work alongside experienced healthcare professionals, supporting people with their recovery and helping them achieve the best possible outcomes

As a Nursing Assistant, you will be a valued member of the multidisciplinary team, providing high-quality, person-centred care to patients. You will support patients with their daily activities, promote independence, and help maintain a safe and therapeutic environment.

Your role will include:

• Supporting patients with personal care and wellbeing needs.
• Building positive and professional relationships with patients, carers, and colleagues.
• Observing and reporting changes in patients' physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing.
• Supporting therapeutic activities and engagement.
• Maintaining accurate records in line with Trust policies.
• Contributing to a safe, respectful, and recovery-focused ward environment.

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

Main duties of the job

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.

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

• 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.

Person specification

Values

• Accountability
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet

Skills

• Ability to provide support and guidance to junior staff

Knowledge

• Able to communicate effectively
• Understanding of issues of confidentiality
• Ability to work as a member of a team
• Ability to demonstrate a non-judgemental attitude
• Ability to work on own initiative under the supervision of a qualified practitioner
• Willing to work towards Level 3 Health Care

Qualifications

• Able to complete Trust's Care Certificate
• NVQ in Health and Social Care and/or experience of working in a care environment

Experience

• Experience working in a care setting

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The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role and work in Children’s & Young People services to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email sensitive@dbs.gsi.gov.uk) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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