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Are you an experienced inpatient nurse? Have you moved on from inpatient care but miss it? Are you caring, compassionate, flexible and have excellent communication skills?
Come and join our fabulous team on Newton Ward Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Clock View Hospital. This is an exciting opportunity for individuals interested and committed to delivering excellent service user care within a safe, secure, and therapeutic environment.
Newton ward is a dynamic and challenging environment, with a hard-working and dedicated staff team who strive to provide consistent, high standards of care to the diverse client base that we care for. The range of skills you can learn and develop is expansive and varied. Working in this environment can encourage you to become a dynamic, creative, and strong leader as well provide you with the ability to think on your feet, problem solve and manage a challenging setting.
On Newton ward we encourage staff to gain further knowledge by enriching their skills through the opportunity to enrol on many of our development, leadership and training courses.
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 health as well as mental health including 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 while working alongside service users, their families,and carers to designand develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisationaland service transformationto significantly improvethe qualityof theservicesweprovideand safely reducecostas wedo so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Please View The Job Description For Detailed Responsibilities.
Newton Ward currently supports all wards across Sefton,Liverpooland Kirkby footprintand has recently begunproviding psychiatric intensivecare servicesto the wholeof Mental Health Division.Newton Wardis 12 bedded mixed ward basedat Clock View Hospitalthat provides short-termintensive assessment,treatment,and supportto service userswhoare experiencinga mentalhealth crisis,and oftenpresentwith avarietyof complexmentalhealthneeds.To maximise serviceuser recovery,theteamworksin atrauma informedway.Our aimis toworinleast restrictivewayas possiblewhilemaintainingpatient safety.Upon joiningour team,wewill ensurethatyou undergobothmandatoryandbespoke training,to fully equipyouwith theskillsrequiredtoworkwithinour psychiatric intensivecareenvironment.