Health Care Assistant | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

To provide support to children, young people and their families/carers when accessing the service.

To carry out physical health observations and liaise with a qualified clinician to help to assess risk to the child or young person, supporting with the care and treatment.

To liaise with both internal and external professionals to arrange appointments and share information in a confidential manner to best support the young person and their family/carers specific to their needs.

To support in the delivery of treatment and interventions within the service.

To maintain accurate, timely and professional records to ensure patient safety.

To work as part of a team to support the other clinical and psychological staff within the team.

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.

Work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team.

Undertake a range of patient interventions within the scope of NVQ level 3 skills for patients as delegated by team leader or other qualified clinical staff.

Offer advice to patients and carers on a wide range of health issues to include health promotion, lifestyle advice, and self-care.

Plan and organise own work schedule once delegated from team leader.

Undertake basic patient observations.

Work within existing clinical guidelines, policies, and infection control procedures.

Offer advice and support to patients and families in a wide range of situations.

Communicate factual and sensitive information within confidentiality guidelines to patients, ensuring all information is appropriately documented and reported back to the team leader.

Demonstrate own role to new starters and students.

Ensure safe moving and handling techniques in the delivery of patient care, this can include the safe use of equipment.

Communicate information to multi-disciplinary team and other agencies as appropriate.

Undertake ordering and receipt of stores.

Undertake further training to gain skills in other areas.

Utilise NVQ level 3 skills within identified areas as required by the clinical team.

Deliver patient care within essence of care standards and Trust guidelines and policies.

Document care delivered within hand-written or electronic patient records.

Participate in own PDR with team leader to establish objectives, reporting arrangements, supervision, and ongoing development.

Participate in mandatory training events.

Work with community groups to improve patient participation and involvement.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Children and Young People's Eating Disorder Service for a Health Care Assistant. We are a multi-disciplinary team that provide assessment and treatment to children and young people with eating disorders across Warrington, Halton, Knowsley and St Helens.

The successful candidate should be caring, compassionate and enthusiastic to learning. There will be an expectation of working independently and as well as part of a team. Good communication skills are essential, part of the role will include liaising with other professionals both internally and externally. Good IT skills are also essential, as the successful candidate will take a lead on co-ordinating online groups as well as inputting and monitoring data on electronic patient records.

Physical health observations are a key task within this role and although training will be provided, experience of this is desirable.

As the team works across four geographical areas, the successful candidate should be prepared to travel between places to provide care and support to the families and young people that we support.