MERIT Recruitment Day in Birmingham
Four West Midlands mental health Trusts are launching a new drive to sign up nurses and apprentices with a major recruitment drive in Birmingham city centre this weekend.
The joint event will be taking place on Saturday 12 November 2016 between 11am - 4pm in the first-floor meeting rooms in Birmingham City Library, Centenary Square, on Broad Street.
We will be looking for full and part-time permanent RMN mental health nurses, apprentices and bank (temporary) contract nurses who want to work in acute treatment with psychiatric physical complexities, rehabilitation and specialist services, including PICU and eating disorders.
The event has been organised by the adult mental health vanguard MERIT, the only partnership of mental health trusts in England working together to jointly develop their services and improve the way mental health services are provided for the future.
MERIT is made up of Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health NHS Trust.
Shakeel Sabir, Head of MERIT Programme, said: “Our four Trusts have exciting nursing and apprenticeship opportunities based across the West Midlands. We are looking for people who want to help make a difference to the mental health and wellbeing of our West Midlands communities as part of a patient-focused, value-based, ambitious and inclusive team.
“We want to focus on proactive early intervention and care and believe that by working together and sharing ideas we can make big improvements quickly. Our priority areas are promoting a recovery culture; crisis care and the reduction of risk; and everyday working in acute services.”
Representatives from each Trust will be attending the event to explain their unique offer and will have information available for interested applicants to take away with them, along with further details about MERIT vanguard.
The roles will offer recruits the opportunity to join award-winning mental health Trusts in roles which offer flexible working and excellent training and development opportunities.
Aside from recruiting nurses, all four Trusts offer entry level apprenticeships where no experience is required and successful candidates can earn a wage, gain a qualification and receive valuable work experience.
Between the MERIT Trust’s they offer apprenticeships in business administration, healthcare, customer services, finance and pharmacy. We want to recruit people who are eager to learn, reliable and ready to commit to starting their career through an apprenticeship route.
The future workforce is important to the Trusts and there is a high success rate of apprentices getting a job within the MERIT Trusts once they have successfully completed their apprenticeship or continuing on to complete an advance apprenticeship.
Other benefits include a generous annual leave entitlement, an NHS pension scheme and childcare vouchers.
Anybody wanting to apply for a job on the day will be able to complete an application form and will get the opportunity to be interviewed. There will also be follow up interviews for those who cannot be seen on the day.
Details of the roles on offer are available on the NHS Jobs website (www.jobs.nhs.uk) and the MERIT website www.WMmeritvanguard.nhs.net
You can also find out more on Twitter via the hashtag #youcanmakethechange
More information about MERIT
- MERIT is the short name for Mental Health Alliance for Excellence, Resilience, Innovation and Training
- MERIT is part of NHS England’s five year plan to help services become more focused on the needs of patients and carers.
- The four mental health Trusts in the West Midlands have come together to develop new ways of working to improve the way mental health services are provided for the future.
- MERIT is the only group of mental health trusts working together in this way, to lead the way in looking at how we can jointly develop mental health services.