Nursing Assistant - Aspen Wood

Join our team at our brand new state of the art Low Secure Learning Disability hospital Aspen Wood that will be opening in 2023.

We’re holding a recruitment event for nursing assistants in Liverpool City Centre on 3 July 2023 where you will be given a comprehensive overview of the Trust, be able to discuss the many and varied opportunities available and will be interviewed on the day.

This post attracts a recruitment and retention premia of £600.

Due to open in 2023, Aspen Wood is a state of the art, 40 bed hospital, providing specialist learning disability and mental health care & treatment.

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 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.

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.

Please see attached job description and person specification for full details.