Providing adult and children's specialist mental health, addiction, learning disability and community health services in NW England and beyond,
@Mersey_CareJobs
A big thanks to Duncan Ferguson and
@Everton
@EITC
for sending this message to our staff at Moss House, our adult community mental health service based in Garston.
โI want to get involved but Iโm not sure how to start the conversation"
We have a freephone urgent mental health helpline for anybody who needs it. Call us on 800 145 6570 today ๐ฒ
When it comes to
#MentalHealth
, we all have a story to share.
#TheMeYouCantSee
now on
@AppleTV
.
๐ฅ BREAKING NEWS ๐ฅ
Approval for a state of the art new mental health hospital in Liverpool has been granted by the Treasury and Department of Health & Social Care, paving the way for the end of dormitory wards in the city.
Read more on our website:
โI want to get involved but Iโm not sure how to start the conversation"
We have a freephone urgent mental health helpline for anybody who needs it.
Call us on 0800 145 6570 today ๐ฒ
When it comes to
#MentalHealth
, we all have a story to share.
#TheMeYouCantSee
now on
@AppleTV
BREAKING NEWS: Latest report from
@CareQualityComm
rates our services as 'Good' for effective, caring and responsive, our rating of safe has improved to good and our 'Well Led' rating has been promoted from good to outstanding. More details:
Congratulations
@Trishbennett15
Executive Director of Nursing and Operations, who today has reached an amazing milestone marking 40 years of service as a
#nurse
๐ฉ๐ฝโโ๏ธ
Thank you for dedicating your career to
#nursing
and for all you do at
#MerseyCare
, enjoy your special day Trish ๐
HRH The Princess Royal accompanied by the Lord-Lieutenant of Merseyside arrives at Hartley Hospital to meet the Sefton Civic Party, Mayor of Sefton
@SeftonMayor
, Mayoress Audrey Stanson,
@seftoncouncil
's Chief Executive, Dwayne Johnson and our Chairman,
@BFraenkel
@RoyalFamily
We have received the keys for Rowan View, our state of the art medium secure hospital, which is expected to become fully operational in the autumn. Thanks
@kiergroup
@NHSEngland
More details:
Congratulations Trish Bennett, Executive Director of Nursing who has been presented with
@CNOEngland
Gold Award by
@HilaryGarratt
Deputy Chief Nursing Officer
@NHSEngland
and Raj Jain, Chair
@NHSCandM
. Solomon Gwatidzo, Clinical Team Leader was presented with the Silver award โญ๏ธ
Congratulations to our Chief Executive and
@Zer0Suicide
Co Founder,
@JR_MerseyCare
, who has been appointed as an Honorary Professor by the
@LivUni
's Institute of Population Health!
Read the story on our website:
Interesting article here on how our
#districtnurses
care for our patients overnight
#NHS
#ThankYouNurses
District nurses who battle coronavirus while the city sleeps
SAVE THE DATE: This time tomorrow - just before
#clapforourcarers
- will be the world premiere of a special film showing the children of our nurses talking about how they care for others, featuring a special
#Beatles
cover from singer
@raemorrismusic
#nhsheroes
This
#NHS75
we would like to congratulate Trish Bennett, our Executive Director of Nursing who has dedicated nearly 42 years of service as a
#Nurse
๐ฉ๐ฝโโ๏ธ
Trish was presented with
@CNOEngland
Gold Award last week โญ
Thanks to all those who've dedicated their careers to the
#NHS
๐
On behalf of Mersey Care we would like to pass on our condolences to
@RoyalFamily
on the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Our thoughts are with you ๐ค ๐
Today marks the end of
@BFraenkel
14-year term as chairman of our Trust. From all at
@Mersey_Care
thanks for your huge contribution to our communities and good luck with all your future opportunities.
Our Chief Executive Prof Joe Rafferty CBE is once again named in
@HSJnews
list of top Trust CEOs, the leaders who are seeing their reputations rising as chosen by senior national healthcare leaders.
@JR_MerseyCare
is number 8 in the top 50 nationally ๐๐ฝ
GREAT NEWS: Dave McKenna, our Director of Security at Ashworth Hospital, and his team have won the
@NAHS_UK
award for security innovation for introducing digital initiatives inside the hospital. Many congratulations
โI want to get involved but Iโm not sure how to start the conversation"
We have a freephone urgent mental health helpline for anybody who needs it.
Call us on 0800 145 6570 today ๐ฒ
When it comes to
#MentalHealth
, we all have a story to share.
#TheMeYouCantSee
now on
@AppleTV
Today is Mental Health Nurses Day!
Meet Hayley, who joined the Trust as a band 2 nursing assistant six years ago. Since then, she has progressed internally to do her Mental Health Nursing training.
Happy
#MHNursesDay
!
#Nursing
#Nurses
#MHNurse
#NHS
One of our long-standing Kensington district
#nurses
, Georgina Morrison, has two celebrations this week, she is celebrating turning 70 and has 50 yearsโ
#NHS
service.
Congratulations, and thank you Georgina. You are a true inspiration to us all!
Congratulations to Warrren Baxter, Amy Farrell and Clare McCarroll who work as therapists in our Integrated Community Reablement Service.
They've been recognised in the
#NewYearsHonoursList
for their services to the
#NHS
during the
#COVID_19
response.
#NewYearsHonours
The winner of the Research Achievementย Award isโฆ
Oladayo Bifarin, for increasing the visibility of research and innovation as an integral part of our clinical workforce development and also in patient outcomes โญ๏ธ
Well done Oladayo ๐๐ฝย
#MCStars23
We'd like to say Thanks to all NHS staff who are sacrificing their precious family time over the holidays to work in front line services. You allow us to enjoy the festivities, safe in the knowledge that our NHS is continuing to help those who need care and medical attention ๐
Thank you
@Rubywax
for officially opening our Neuromodulation Suite today ๐
It's the only purpose built
#Neuromodulation
ย suite in the north of England for service usersย with severe and/or difficult to treat depression.
Find out more aboutย the service -
We are excited to announce that along with
@LivUni
we have been awarded ยฃ10.5m government funding for a new
#MentalHealth
#Research
for Innovation Centre in
#Liverpool
. Working with our service users to improve the quality of our services ๐
Visit -
๐ Happy 75th Birthday to our NHS ๐
Thank you to all of the amazing staff and
#Volunteers
across the
#NHS
that make a difference seven days a week, 365 days a year ๐
Itโs the people that make the NHS ๐
#NHS75
#NHSBirthday
#ThankYouNHS
Many congratulations to LD nurse Lindsay Whitaker who was a recent finalist at the Student Nursing Times Awards
#snta
She is hugely loved and respected by everyone at Whalley for her work at the health centre and in the women's service.
@speaktolee
@fran_cairns
@sue_wrathall
Congratulations to our Mental Health Triage Car service for being chosen as regional champions for the prestigious
#NHS
Parliamentary Awards.
They were shortlisted in The Excellence in Urgent and Emergency Care category, well done team! ๐๐ฝโญ
Please support
@samaritans
and us in turning
#BlueMonday
into
#BrewMonday
by joining our Thunderclap campaign and using the power of a brew to break stigma, bring people together and start having conversations that could SAVE LIVES:
Mersey Care's Chief Executive,
@JR_MerseyCare
was out and about today meeting our new staff. Here's Joe along side our newest Executive Director,
@johnheritage123
.
Welcome to Mersey Care!
Visit:
Our adult mental health inpatient service at the Park Unit in Southport has now moved to the beautiful new Hartley Hospital ahead of schedule.
No visitors yet though - we'll welcome you when it's safe.
@NHSSFCCG
@seftoncouncil
@HWatchSefton
Congratulations to all of our winners at this afternoon's
#PositiveAchievementAwards
virtual ceremony ๐You should all be very proud. It is so inspiring to hear about all of your achievements throughout 2020/2021.
And the winners are... ๐
#NHS
๐
The winner of theย Lifetime Achievement Awardย isโฆ
ย
Margaret Fillingham, for many years has been the heart and soul of the team in Iris and Taylor Ward. Margaret always goes above and beyond to provide support to her team and patients.ย
ย
Well done Margaret
#MCStars23
ย โญ๏ธ
#ClapForOurCarers
... Please join us tonight at 8.00pm for a big applause (from your front door, garde, balcony, windows, living rooms).
Let's show all Nurses, Doctors, GPs and carers how grateful we are for all of their hard work in the fight against
#COVID19
Share this post!
Huge congratulations to nurse practitioner Nicola Courtnage who completed the London Marathon in five hours, 11 minutes, raising funds for charity CRY - Cardiac Risk in the Young. Despite her gruelling challenge Nicola was back in work at our city Walk-In centre today.
Itโs nearly time for our new medium secure hospital to be handed over to us. Viewing the bright frontage to Rowan View, Director
@edarbyshire1
noted how inspiring it is and how different it looks from previous mental health facility designs.
Go inside:
Since January
@NWAmbulance
and Mersey Care
#mentalhealth
practitioners have jointly attended 557 calls where it was deemed a member of the public was experiencing a mental health concern, with a 94% success rate of providing an intervention.
#triagecar
#Ambulance
Ward Managers with a rich seam of person centred expertise from diverse backgrounds have been central to the success of No Force First. Here is Lisa Gould, Ward Manager and Occupational Therapist, with our Nursing Times Award.
Our amazing team with the Integrated Community Reablement and Assessment Service (ICRAS) have helped 72 patients avoid going into hospital this week, as well as help plan 173 patients discharge from hospital - brilliant work
@LivHospitals
@speaktolee
@Trishbennett15
@NHSNW
#nhs
A massive welcome to all of our new colleagues who will be delivering Southport and Formby community health services!
@JR_MerseyCare
To find out more about these services, visit our website:
Do you want a sneak preview of our new hospital, Rowan View? As we move towards it becoming fully operational soon, here's a chance to look inside our state-of-the-art new facility
@kiergroup
@NHSNW
More information here:
The winner of Excellence in Leadership Award isโฆย
ย
Sarah Pilling for demonstrating courage , passion, confidence, commitment, ambition and for nurturing the strengths of other managers ๐ย
ย
Well done Sarah ๐๐ฝย
ย
#MCStars23
New appointments as consultants for
#LocalDivision
were today officially welcomed to
@Mersey_Care
by Interim Medical Director
@1to2arun
(pictured second left). They are Dr Shaiyan Rahman (left), Dr Antonio Da Costa (second right) and Dr Tomos Williams (right)
Our Rowan View hospital is a month away from completion. See this short film of clinicians touring the impressive 123 bed site that will promote the integration of physical and mental wellbeing.
We're recruiting here:
A huge well done to our quick-thinking colleague Angela at South Liverpool Walk-In centre who treated a patient for a severe headache. Suspecting a more serious condition Angela sent the patient to accident and emergency. It was serious and the swift action saved her life.
Nice piece from
@guardian
again about how Liverpool city council is enhancing the care of people with learning disabilities, autism and mental health problems, by making sure they can access community-based services in the city:
We warmly welcome our new Chair, Rosie Cooper who has joined the Trust today. Rosie has a wealth of experience in the health sector and the NHS.
We hope that you have a great first day from all of the Mersey Care family ๐
@JR_MerseyCare
@amandajoyoates
@edarbyshire1
The final award is the Chief Medical Officerโs Award, and the winner isโฆ our Addictions Service at Brook Place for their work on becoming the first addiction service in the country to achieve this โญ๏ธ
Well done team ๐๐ฝ
Congrats to our partner
@NWAmbulance
Jonathan King mental health triage car lead for Association of Ambulance Service CEOs award for tireless work with mh pts through the intro of the car, delivered in partnership with Mersey Care. He said: โ. we can really make a difference ."
Thank you to our vaccinators and staff who have been vaccinated helping to keep us safe ๐
ย
If you work at the trust and havenโt been vaccinated, you can either make an appointment or visit one of our drop in clinics to protect yourself, our staff, service users and loved ones๐
Nurse Robert Meinardiโs home visits are music to the ears of his patients โ literally. The former professional
#opera
singer will sometimes end a visit with a burst of song! Read the full story in MC Magazine:
#loveopera
#worldoperaday
"I didn't want to be here anymore."
Mick Cullen, also known as Speedo Mick, speaks to
#BBCBreakfast
about his struggles with mental health during lockdown โฌ๏ธ
If you're affected by any of the issues in this clip please visit BBC's action line: