Who we are
Mersey Care is one of the most innovative and progressive NHS trusts in the country. We offer specialist inpatient and community services to support physical and mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services and are a founding member of the Zero Suicide Alliance.
We are the largest provider of 0 to 19 services across Liverpool and Sefton, working in partnership to improve the health and wellbeing of 160,000 local children and their families, and one of only three trusts in the country which deliver high secure mental health care.
Mersey Care has 11,000 people working together to provide community and mental health services to a population of more than 1.4 million, across Merseyside and parts of Lancashire and Cheshire.
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.
In the last 10 years, Mersey Care has built five new hospitals investing over £300m. The newest – Aspen Wood – an award-winning specialist learning disability unit in Maghull Health Park, opened in March 2024, while a further state-of-the-art hospital will be opening in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, in 2024.
The Trust is a Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) and we're working on a number of projects that look at delivering exceptional care, efficiently, through the use of world class digital technology and information, such as Telehealth. Mersey Care has led the way with remote clinical monitoring and virtual wards, enabling over 2,000 people a day with acute and long term conditions to be cared for at home.
In 2023, we launched the first ever Mental Health Research for Innovation Centre (M-RIC) with the University of Liverpool, backed by £10.5m government funding. M-RIC will create a world first ‘learning system’ where treatments improve the more they are used, studied and refined. The focus will be on under-researched areas such as early intervention in psychosis, depression, and children and young people’s metal health. Research will underpin Liverpool City Region’s commitment to service users, providing easy access to clinical trials and increasing their involvement in better care, closer to home.
Our aim is to play a full part in the health and social care economies we serve, by promoting and driving greater integration between mental and physical health and social care. Population health management is a theme of Mersey Care’s long-term strategy; and by looking at our communities and the recurring problems, or at groups which need the same treatment, we can find the best way to provide help quicker and more efficiently.
Our clinical services are provided across 236 sites spanning a large part of the North West. Our services are supported by Trust Wide Support Services based at our offices in Kings Business Park, Prescot, and Hollins Park, Cheshire.
The Community Care Division provides a range of physical health community, inpatient and outpatient services across the Trust. It is organised across 5 service and/or geographical areas:
Liverpool services
- District nursing, specialist community nursing, allied health professionals, treatment rooms across Liverpool.
Children, families and Sefton services
- Longmoor House (inpatient services at Aintree)
- district nursing, specialist community nursing, allied health professionals, treatment rooms across Sefton
- Children and family services (e.g., health visitors and specialist nursing / AHP services) across the Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton and St Helens
- Children’s MH service (e.g., school teams, youth offending, crisis response) across Halton, Knowsley, St Helens and Warrington.
Dental and Knowsley, Halton, Warrington and St Helens services
- District nursing, specialist community nursing, allied health professionals, treatment rooms across Halton,
Knowsley and Warrington
- Wellbeing services (e.g, Talk Liverpool and Think Wellbeing across Halton, Knowsley and St Helens)
- Community dental services for Knowsley, Liverpool, and Sefton
Urgent Care services
- Walk In Centres in Liverpool (City Centre, Garston, SmithdownChildrens, Old Swan), Litherland and Kirkby
- ICRAS in Liverpool and Sefton.
Care Management Team
- Senior leadership, clinical governance and quality, reception services, equipment services and liaison with corporate support services.
The Mental Health Care Division provides a range of mental health community, outpatients and non-forensic inpatients services across the Trust. It is organised across four service and/or geographical areas:
Mental health and addiction services – inpatient/rehab services
- Halton and Warrington: Brooker Centre, Hollins Park
- Knowsley and St Helens: Peasley Cross, Whiston Hospital
- Liverpool: Broadoak Unit, Heys Court, Hope Centre, Leigh Moss, Rathbone Hospital, Windsor House
- Sefton: Clockview, Hartley Hospital.
Mental health community services
- Halton and Warrington: Early Intervention, Older Adult MH Community Hubs, Adult MH Community Hubs, Psychological Therapies
- Knowsley and St Helens: Early Intervention, Older Adult MH Community Hubs, Adult MH Community Hubs, Psychological Therapies
- Liverpool: Alcohol and Addictions, Early Intervention, Older Adult MH Community Hub, Adult MH Community Hubs, Step Forward
- Sefton: Early Intervention, Older Adult MH Community Hubs, Adult MH Community Hub, Step Forward.
Mental health urgent care and short term assessment
- Core 24 / Liaison service
- Urgent Care Hubs (inc. Street Triage)
- Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment
- Criminal Justice services.
Care Management Team
- Senior leadership, clinical governance and quality, reception services, estates and liaison with corporate support services.
The Secure Care Division provides a range of forensic and secure learning disability and mental health services and community learning disability services. It is organised across seven service areas:
High secure mental health inpatient services
- Ashworth Hospital
Medium secure mental health and learning disability inpatient services
- Rowan View
Low secure inpatient services
- Mental Health - Hollins Park, Rathbone Hospital
- Learning disabilities – Whalley
Offender health services
- MH Prison Services (HMP Garth and HMP Liverpool)
- Probation Services (Cheshire, Merseyside, Resettle, Stafford House)
Forensic community services
- Mersey Forensic Psychology
- Medium Secure Community Forensics
- Step Down – Auden and Tennyson Units (Hollins Park)
- LD Specialist Support Teams – Greater Manchester, Lancashire
Local learning disability services
- Non-forensic inpatient services – Byron Unit (Hollins Park), Wavertree Bungalow
- LD Non-Forensic Community Teams – Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens and Warrington
Specialist learning disability services
- Individual packages of care - Rowan View and Whalley
- Enhanced support services - Whalley
Uniforms and meet our teams
As a patient, service user, carer or visitor accessing Mersey Care services or sites, you'll see different members of our staff working in clinical areas wearing a uniform. They are unique to their role or speciality and will help you recognise our staff more easily.
Our staff may choose to wear a smart scrub tunic, trousers, polo shirt or a dress.
Every member of staff should wear a Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust ID badge and introduce themselves to you, saying ‘Hello my name is ……’ If this doesn’t happen then please ask, ‘Who are you and what do you do?’
More information about our uniforms can be found on our Core Benefits page on this website.
Please see below images of our staff who work in clinical areas and their uniform and job roles.
Community Care
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Mental Health Care
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Secure Care
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