Unit Coordinator
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, Sefton
Unit Coordinator
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, Sefton
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 1 week ago, 15 Jul | Get your application in now before you're too late!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
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Full Job Description
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.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------, Currently there is 3 vacant unit coordinator posts, 2 of these will support the boroughs of St Helens and Knowsley and 1 will support the borough of Sefton Place including Clockview Hospital and Hartley Hospital.
You will support the Mental Health Care Division in ensuring inpatient areas are managed safely and effectively over a 24-hour period. Ensuring the delivery of high standard of care to Service Users, providing support, supervision and education for colleagues, other professionals and students.
You will support staff with managing acuity, capacity and flow, responding to emergency situations and liaising with other teams & services such as the Acute Trusts to ensure care is managed proactively., To support Services in providing clinical advice, expertise and leadership to all Ward Staff across Sefton, St Helens and Knowsley
To liaise appropriately with family members, carers and significant others with regards to the assessment of Service Users. To refer to the Modern Matron as necessary.
To use verbal and non-verbal communication skills gained through training and experience to impart sensitive information e.g. diagnosis or symptoms to Service Users and their families. To offer support to other staff to do this.
To support the divisional managers / bronze on call in ensuring that the wards resources are managed appropriately to maximise care and efficient work patterns.
To liaise with other professionals offering a service within the wards and wider teams such as Accident and Emergency departments to ensure a high quality of service delivery, including escalation and communications with Bronze on call as required.
To ensure that all incidents or near misses are documented as per Trust policy and that any follow-up action is taken.
To ensure the safe administration of medication to Service Users, ensuring that the Nursing and Midwifery Council regulations are followed.
This role will be will be nights shifts, and there is a expectation that you will be flexible and able to mobilise at short notice across the division to support others areas to provide support and expertise, 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.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [email protected] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role 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 or email [email protected]) 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.
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.
Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.
Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
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.