Facilities Management Assistant (Patient Possessions)

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 ethnic minorities, 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.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------, To work within the Secure Division Facilities Stores Department that is inclusive of the Central Stores, Patients Possessions, Linen bank, Provision Stores, Mailroom as required.
The post holder will be expected to contribute to the provision of a quality storage provision for Secure Division Services, which will include maintaining an accurate record of the storage, receipt, and distribution of goods for Secure Division Services.
Duties will include receipting all goods received for Secure Division & the wider Trust as well as the processing and checking compliance with the security requirements required of Secure Services., To work as members of a team, carrying out tasks as allocated and prioritized.
To participate in training, including Mandatory training as required by Mersey Care To adhere to and follow Trust and departmental procedures, relating to all Stores, Patient Possessions and Mailroom activity, entering and using Data and inputting information into the PACIS and E-Financial system.
The post holder is expected to carry out tasks assigned to them, considering the Security and Health and Safety of all parties including colleagues from with in their own department and those within Secure Division Services. Such duties to support this may include entering data into computers using various systems.
To receipt patient's goods received in the Patients Property Department & HS Mailroom across the Secure Division.
Deliveries of property - To all RSU's, HMP's, ex-patients and patients' relatives throughout the country also contact with internal & external sources e.g., police, prisons, social workers and advocates.
To complete x-raying and/or security checks, in line with Tilt recommendations, of all goods to be delivered into the secure area of Ashworth Hospital & the rest of the secure division. Check, note and raise awareness of any illegal or restricted items, such as weapons, explosives, drugs etc, with line manager. Investigate any suspicious items in line with departmental and hospital procedures., Thorough search and investigation of new patient admissions property & discharge, reporting on our findings to security and inputting all relevant data for all other departments to access. Compiling and supplying evidence for the Type Approval Committee meetings. Drive a forklift truck and operate mechanical handling equipment, as trained. Understand risk management for equipment employed within the department and
update training as necessary. Electrical PAT equipment - Portable Appliance Testing on all patients' electrical goods. To comply with all security and fire procedures appertaining to the designated
workplace, To maintain a thorough working knowledge and practice of policies and procedures associated with Patients Possessions and associated policies across the Trust. To report all defects to equipment and the environment to your line Manager. To comply with COSHH and all other Health and Safety procedures relating to patients' possessions management. A requirement to have multidiscipline, cross functional and flexible approach regarding the requirement to work in other areas as an FM Assistant within the Secure Division as required.
Patients' property checks - with the patient present in the Exchange and at ward level, liaising with a multi-disciplinary team. Police evidence bag - The correct use of and safe storage, avoiding any cross contamination of any possession or evidence found within a patient's possessions.
Policing the PACIS System, - amending inaccuracies on all non departmental staff inputting on the PACIS system and also reporting none approved items that have entered the hospital via other departments and supplying the evidence to the Security Intelligence.
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
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Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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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.