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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 assigned duties involving direct patient care and observation of service users under 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 whilst 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 be able to demonstrate a range of communication skills & techniques to enable positive communication to take place 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 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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Nicola McNulty Job title: Head of Nursing - Learning Disability Email address:
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