Trust wide news
AGM date announced
The date for this year’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) has been set for Thursday, 21 September 2023. It will be held at Aintree Racecourse in the Golden Miller Suite between 1.30pm and 3pm.
More information about the event, which provides attendees with an opportunity to find out more about the Trust and also review some of our highlights and performance from over the last 12 months, can be found on the Trust’s website.
Ifyou would like to join this year’s AGM please register your attendance by emailing: AGM2023@merseycare.nhs.uk.
Recruitment event
Looking for a new challenge? Why not attend our event at Hartley Hospital in Southport on 10 June 2023 where there’s a wide variety of roles available suiting candidates with all levels of experience and qualifications. For more information see the advert below or why not have a look at our current vacancies?
We are also holding an event to recruit for our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) on 23 June 2023 at the Mercure St Helens Hotel. We have vacancies from Band 5 right up to Band 8a, including Children’s and Young Persons Community Practitioner, Mental Health Practitioner, Senior Mental Health Practitioner and Senior Nurse Practitioner.
More information about the event and, the available roles and essential criteria can be found on our website.
Using our website in different languages
Did you know our website is available in over 100 different languages? If you have a friend, family member, loved one or client that needs to access information on the website, there is an accessibility tool at the bottom of every page to help you translate into your language of choice.
More information about how to use the accessibility tools are available on our website.
Physical Health News
Community services receive NHS England visit
Our Community Care Division was visited by Hillary Garrett CBE, NHS England’s Deputy Chief Nursing Officer, and Sam Sherrington, Deputy Director of Community Nursing, earlier this month.
They visited Longmoor House, met patients and heard about how our service supports the system with rehabilitation. They also met our internationally recruited nurses and talked about their journey to Mersey Care, and different cultures.
The visit was part of Hillary’s leaving tour, as she leaves this month after more than 37 years in the NHS. They also spent time with Trish Bennett, Executive Director of Nursing and Deputy Chief Executive for Clinical Services and Jenny Hurst, our Deputy Director of Nursing, and a large group of community nurses, health visitors and allied health professionals.
Mental Health News
New Mental Health Research Centre launched in Liverpool
Mersey Care and the University of Liverpool have teamed up to create the first ever Mental Health Research for Innovation Centre (M-RIC), where service users co-design the innovations they need and want, alongside health professionals and other stakeholders
The Centre has been awarded £10.5 million of Government funding from the Office for Life Sciences and the National Institute for Health and Care Research. It’s part of the national ‘Mental Health Mission’ which aims to accelerate mental health research through a UK network of leading investigators. More information can be found on the Mersey Care website.
Clock View Hospital makes the news
Architecture Today has published a series of new photographs of Clock View Hospital, our mental health facility based in Walton. It marks Clock View’s success as their annual awards Healthcare Winner for 2022 and you can see the photographs in their latest issue.
NHS Talking Therapies Information for professionals
Talking Therapies is a free NHS service for adults registered with a GP in Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens (aged 16 plus) or Halton (aged 18 plus) who want to learn how to overcome common mental health problems such as depression or anxiety (including worry, panic, social anxiety, OCD, and trauma).
We encourage self referral, either via our website or by calling your local service, Monday to Friday 8.00am to 6.00pm.
Halton: 0151 292 6954
Knowsley: 0151 351 8600 (option one)
Liverpool: 0151 228 2300
St Helens: 01744 415 650
Making people aware we are here and how they can contact us is the most helpful first step. We also don’t offer crisis or immediate care support. If you have concerns for someone’s safety or their ability to maintain their general wellbeing, direct them to their GP or telephone 111 if out of hours. Patients can also call the Samaritans on 116 123 or present at A&E/call 999 in an emergency.
PROSPECT update
Chief Executive Prof Joe Rafferty chairs Cheshire and Merseyside Adult Secure Lead Provider Collaborative for specialised mental health, learning disability and autism services. We work with Elysium Healthcare and Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
Recently PROSPECT has achieved Level 2 of the Quality Management Framework. For the latest funding approval details, pilots and news on their work improving pathways between prisons and secure services, please share their page on our website.
The Life Rooms – volunteers, QRV success and Pride event
The Life Rooms are looking for new volunteers to support with their allotment sessions in Southport and to help us relaunch our library service in The Life Rooms Walton.
To find out more information about becoming a volunteer, please go to The Life Rooms website or email volunteering@merseycare.nhs.uk
They have also received a Good Plus in all domains for their recent Quality Review Visit (QRV), which checks adherence to quality standards based on: the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) criteria, review of self performance, and the service’s self assessment.
A specialist tem within Mersey Care conduct the internal visits. Following this, a rating and an action plan are received to ensure that services are continually working towards full quality compliance. This continues The Life Rooms’ run of QRV success, with Liverpool services, and Healthy Knowsley both also achieving Good Plus.
The Life Rooms are also holding a Pride celebration event at their Walton site on Friday, 23 June. Various partners, including Sahir House, Re-engage, and YPAS will be attending. Pride themed arts and crafts will be on the Learning timetable throughout this month - keep up to date with their events calendar and timetables.
MC Magazine - out soon
Our spring MC Magazine will be out soon. Read about:
- Fibromyalgia
- Get into nature
- The best medicine
- Making friends when we’re older
- The Smiling Volunteer
- Healing the wounds of trauma.
Why not give the whole magazine a read via our website?
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