The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Children and Young People's Mental Health Liaison Nurse

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Job summary

I am enormously proud of our Children and Young People's services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital as the Head of Nursing. I am looking to build my senior management team and as such I am excited to recruit to the post of Children and Young People's mental health liaison nurse, to join me and my existing team.

I am looking for an exceptional, inspirational, dynamic and highly experienced senior nursewhose role is key to support the development of our mental health services. This will include working with the senior team in supporting and developing the workforce to meet our CQC legislative requirements. We are an innovative paediatric service with an ambitious future.

If you feel like you could have the relevant skills, experience, and knowledge to have a real impact in this role, please read over the job description and person specification below andclick the linkto apply. We look forward to hearing from you!

Main duties of the job

To provide visible, credible professional clinical leadership, supporting the clinical management of children with mental health conditions and eating disorders who have been admitted on to the inpatient ward.

About us

This is an exciting time for PAHT. Over the next five years we are on a digital transformation journey, leading us to our brand new hospital.

You'll be being part of the team leading and supporting our paediatric services in a diverse and challenging role; a role which can make a significant difference to our patients, staff and the future direction of our paediatric services.

Our people demonstrate energy and commitment towards improving the care and experiences provided to our patients and the drive to be an outstanding organisation.

Its never been a better time to join us.

Date posted

23 October 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£43,574 to £49,587 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

292-4120655-RL1-C

Job locations

The Princess Alexandra Hospital

Hamstel Road

Harlow

CM20 1QX

Job description

Job responsibilities

To communicate complex and sensitive information and advice to child or young person and their families, carers and professionals, including information about diagnosis and prognosis, to find ways of enabling the information to be understood, providing empathy and reassurance.
To be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating of specialist care, including supporting and evaluating the work of paediatric and agency staff
You will be expected to actively involve service users in decisions about the service and support they receive, to be aware of and inform service users about participation initiatives, and actively support the development of such initiatives to ensure the voice of service users is at the heart of service design, development and delivery.
To develop and facilitate, with other members of the service, clinical groups, training sessions and workshops as appropriate.
To work on the ward as a senior member of the team when no children or young people with mental health disorders are admitted to the unit
Improve the quality of care for children and young people experiencing mental problems whilst they are being cared for at their Trust
To support integrated mental health care with physical health care
Enhance the skills of non-mental health professionals to better equip them to support patients with a mental health needs; to provide holistic care.
Reduce emergency mental health readmissions admissions and ED re-attendances for young people with mental health problems.
To support staff to provide in patient mental health care to patients when they have been admitted to both short stay wards as well as general hospital wards, where there is concern over their mental state.
To support staff to reduce the length of stay for patients following admission by planning for discharge as soon as a patient is admitted.
To support staff with assessment and triage of Children and Young People presenting at CYP ED with mental health concerns or symptoms of eating disorders.
To provide visible, credible professional clinical leadership, supporting the clinical management of children with mental health conditions and eating disorders who have been admitted on to the inpatient ward.
Support effective liaison with CAMHS and Eating Disorder teams for the CYP fit for immediate discharge from ED and provide effective safety netting advice.
Improve the quality of care for children and young people experiencing mental problems whilst they are being cared for at their Trust
To support the integration of mental health care with physical health care. To provide effective liaison between the local medical, CAMHS and Eating Disorder teams.
To support the Ward Manager with providing expert mental health advice and guidance to inform and enhance care for children.
To support the wider paediatric nursing and medical team, by arranging training opportunities to up-skill all professionals on effectively managing young peoples mental health needs.
To have a specialist focus on eating disorders and their management.
To collate and submit data as part of the network/national mental health submissions requirements.
Reduce emergency mental health readmissions and ED re-attendances for young people with mental health problems by:

- - - Securing onward referral to community mental health services where appropriate; and Engaging with local CAMHS and eating disorder services to create supportive care plans for those with recurring attendances

To support the reduction of the length of stay for patients through interagency assessment and planning from point of attendance. Improve the quality of care for children and young people experiencing mental problems whilst they are being cared for at their Trust
To ensure the nursing care delivered to the children and young people with mental and physical health needs, is of a high quality, research based, and is patient and family focused.
To foster a close working relationship with clinicians and Allied Health Care Professionals to ensure a multidisciplinary and interagency approach to patient care.
To assist with the management and de-escalation of the behaviour of children and young people who at times may be physically and verbally aggressive towards other members of the family and staff.
To facilitate comprehensive risk assessments and management plans, involving the service user, carer, and any other individuals relevant to the care of the service user, and to ensure that this is well documented for the duration of their inpatient stay.
To receive regular professional supervision.
To maintain knowledge of relevant legislation in relation to children and adolescents including safeguarding children and young people, child protection procedures and policies.
To update training regularly on safeguarding and other relevant mandatory topics.

Clinical

The post holder will:

To support staff to carry out in house risk assessments to promote the safety of the young person in the department.
Support clinicians with capacity assessments in patients with complex diagnosis or requirements.
Facilitate the development of a working diagnosis in conjunction with medical/psychiatric staff through the provision of reports, assessments and observations.
Advise that care plans accurately reflect the patients mental and physical health needs
Ensure staff are aware of the process of medical recording and uploading onto their respective clinical system (and shared with referrer for those attending A&E) within 24 hours;
Be responsible for acting as the link between acute care, eating disorder and mental health services
Be fully engaged in the early discharge planning for patients;
Monitor the referral of patients to other mental health services and eating disorder services.
Engage with acute staff over physical health conditions requirements or ongoing concerns.
Provide ongoing monitoring and advice on the management of mental health problems and psychiatric medication affecting physical healthcare while the patient remains an inpatient under CYP services.
Mental health care plans will be integrated into summary discharge plans where appropriate (when on-going mental health issues have been identified).
For urgent referrals for people experiencing an acute crisis in their mental health the following care and treatment interventions will be provided:
The post holder will be part of the crisis pathway as trusted assessors, to enable a streamlined referral pathway for those presenting at high and immediate risk to self or others and avoiding the need for duplicate assessment processes where this is clinically appropriate.
Provide information and advice on risk management;
Raise awareness of the importance of mental health;
Promote equality to reduce stigma of access to appropriate services.
Be an advocate for children and young people with eating disorders and or mental health issues.
To support communication between the Young Person, acute paediatric medical team, the CAMHS service, Childrens Services, Safeguarding teams, Eating Disorders Unit etc.
To have excellent verbal and written communication skills so that professional advice or care guidance and instructions are well understood by patients, their relatives and/or carers and members of the multidisciplinary team .
To work collaboratively with the Ward Manager/Matron to ensure that clinical governance processes and KPIs are met.

Leadership or managerial

To support the management of the patient pathway from admission until discharge.
Function as an effective role model in the clinical setting in demonstrating the application of breadth and depth of nursing knowledge and skills, and in advising and supporting members of the multi-disciplinary team.
To participate quality and safety initiatives where appropriate and directed by the Paediatric Matron.

Educational

Enhance the skills of non-mental health professionals to better equip them to support patients with a mental health needs; to provide holistic care.
Provide information in areas of consent/capacity/deprivation of liberty, the Mental Health Act.
Provide mental health awareness training.
Provide information, referral and/or appropriate sign-posting for Children, young people, carers and parents.
To participate in the formal assessment of learner nurses.
To develop and deliver education and training programmes regarding eating disorders and mental health in collaboration with the Practice Development Nurse and Paediatric Matron.
On a monthly basis to undertake a regular teaching /training shift to either deliver education or work clinically with a junior member of the nursing team to gain confidence knowledge and skills in an agreed subject.
The service will be flexible to the needs and demands of CYP in terms of the hours of operation and this will be reviewed regularly.
To support the department and organisation by carrying out any other duties that reasonably fit within the broad scope of a job of this grade and type of work.

Please read the detailed Job Description and Person Specification attached for more details.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To communicate complex and sensitive information and advice to child or young person and their families, carers and professionals, including information about diagnosis and prognosis, to find ways of enabling the information to be understood, providing empathy and reassurance.
To be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating of specialist care, including supporting and evaluating the work of paediatric and agency staff
You will be expected to actively involve service users in decisions about the service and support they receive, to be aware of and inform service users about participation initiatives, and actively support the development of such initiatives to ensure the voice of service users is at the heart of service design, development and delivery.
To develop and facilitate, with other members of the service, clinical groups, training sessions and workshops as appropriate.
To work on the ward as a senior member of the team when no children or young people with mental health disorders are admitted to the unit
Improve the quality of care for children and young people experiencing mental problems whilst they are being cared for at their Trust
To support integrated mental health care with physical health care
Enhance the skills of non-mental health professionals to better equip them to support patients with a mental health needs; to provide holistic care.
Reduce emergency mental health readmissions admissions and ED re-attendances for young people with mental health problems.
To support staff to provide in patient mental health care to patients when they have been admitted to both short stay wards as well as general hospital wards, where there is concern over their mental state.
To support staff to reduce the length of stay for patients following admission by planning for discharge as soon as a patient is admitted.
To support staff with assessment and triage of Children and Young People presenting at CYP ED with mental health concerns or symptoms of eating disorders.
To provide visible, credible professional clinical leadership, supporting the clinical management of children with mental health conditions and eating disorders who have been admitted on to the inpatient ward.
Support effective liaison with CAMHS and Eating Disorder teams for the CYP fit for immediate discharge from ED and provide effective safety netting advice.
Improve the quality of care for children and young people experiencing mental problems whilst they are being cared for at their Trust
To support the integration of mental health care with physical health care. To provide effective liaison between the local medical, CAMHS and Eating Disorder teams.
To support the Ward Manager with providing expert mental health advice and guidance to inform and enhance care for children.
To support the wider paediatric nursing and medical team, by arranging training opportunities to up-skill all professionals on effectively managing young peoples mental health needs.
To have a specialist focus on eating disorders and their management.
To collate and submit data as part of the network/national mental health submissions requirements.
Reduce emergency mental health readmissions and ED re-attendances for young people with mental health problems by:

- - - Securing onward referral to community mental health services where appropriate; and Engaging with local CAMHS and eating disorder services to create supportive care plans for those with recurring attendances

To support the reduction of the length of stay for patients through interagency assessment and planning from point of attendance. Improve the quality of care for children and young people experiencing mental problems whilst they are being cared for at their Trust
To ensure the nursing care delivered to the children and young people with mental and physical health needs, is of a high quality, research based, and is patient and family focused.
To foster a close working relationship with clinicians and Allied Health Care Professionals to ensure a multidisciplinary and interagency approach to patient care.
To assist with the management and de-escalation of the behaviour of children and young people who at times may be physically and verbally aggressive towards other members of the family and staff.
To facilitate comprehensive risk assessments and management plans, involving the service user, carer, and any other individuals relevant to the care of the service user, and to ensure that this is well documented for the duration of their inpatient stay.
To receive regular professional supervision.
To maintain knowledge of relevant legislation in relation to children and adolescents including safeguarding children and young people, child protection procedures and policies.
To update training regularly on safeguarding and other relevant mandatory topics.

Clinical

The post holder will:

To support staff to carry out in house risk assessments to promote the safety of the young person in the department.
Support clinicians with capacity assessments in patients with complex diagnosis or requirements.
Facilitate the development of a working diagnosis in conjunction with medical/psychiatric staff through the provision of reports, assessments and observations.
Advise that care plans accurately reflect the patients mental and physical health needs
Ensure staff are aware of the process of medical recording and uploading onto their respective clinical system (and shared with referrer for those attending A&E) within 24 hours;
Be responsible for acting as the link between acute care, eating disorder and mental health services
Be fully engaged in the early discharge planning for patients;
Monitor the referral of patients to other mental health services and eating disorder services.
Engage with acute staff over physical health conditions requirements or ongoing concerns.
Provide ongoing monitoring and advice on the management of mental health problems and psychiatric medication affecting physical healthcare while the patient remains an inpatient under CYP services.
Mental health care plans will be integrated into summary discharge plans where appropriate (when on-going mental health issues have been identified).
For urgent referrals for people experiencing an acute crisis in their mental health the following care and treatment interventions will be provided:
The post holder will be part of the crisis pathway as trusted assessors, to enable a streamlined referral pathway for those presenting at high and immediate risk to self or others and avoiding the need for duplicate assessment processes where this is clinically appropriate.
Provide information and advice on risk management;
Raise awareness of the importance of mental health;
Promote equality to reduce stigma of access to appropriate services.
Be an advocate for children and young people with eating disorders and or mental health issues.
To support communication between the Young Person, acute paediatric medical team, the CAMHS service, Childrens Services, Safeguarding teams, Eating Disorders Unit etc.
To have excellent verbal and written communication skills so that professional advice or care guidance and instructions are well understood by patients, their relatives and/or carers and members of the multidisciplinary team .
To work collaboratively with the Ward Manager/Matron to ensure that clinical governance processes and KPIs are met.

Leadership or managerial

To support the management of the patient pathway from admission until discharge.
Function as an effective role model in the clinical setting in demonstrating the application of breadth and depth of nursing knowledge and skills, and in advising and supporting members of the multi-disciplinary team.
To participate quality and safety initiatives where appropriate and directed by the Paediatric Matron.

Educational

Enhance the skills of non-mental health professionals to better equip them to support patients with a mental health needs; to provide holistic care.
Provide information in areas of consent/capacity/deprivation of liberty, the Mental Health Act.
Provide mental health awareness training.
Provide information, referral and/or appropriate sign-posting for Children, young people, carers and parents.
To participate in the formal assessment of learner nurses.
To develop and deliver education and training programmes regarding eating disorders and mental health in collaboration with the Practice Development Nurse and Paediatric Matron.
On a monthly basis to undertake a regular teaching /training shift to either deliver education or work clinically with a junior member of the nursing team to gain confidence knowledge and skills in an agreed subject.
The service will be flexible to the needs and demands of CYP in terms of the hours of operation and this will be reviewed regularly.
To support the department and organisation by carrying out any other duties that reasonably fit within the broad scope of a job of this grade and type of work.

Please read the detailed Job Description and Person Specification attached for more details.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Significant post-registration clinical experience of working with children and young people with mental health needs in different settings
Experience of recent involvement in practice/ service development.
Experience of working with groups and individuals in a variety of roles and settings
Demonstrated experience of working as an autonomous practitioner

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Sick Children's Nurse (RSCN)/Mental health nurse (RMN) or Health or Social Care professional
Post registration qualification / training in CYP mental health
Formal knowledge of CYP acquired through clinical post-graduate education

Desirable

Degree/ Masters level qualification relevant to CYP

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Significant post-registration clinical experience of working with children and young people with mental health needs in different settings
Experience of recent involvement in practice/ service development.
Experience of working with groups and individuals in a variety of roles and settings
Demonstrated experience of working as an autonomous practitioner

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Sick Children's Nurse (RSCN)/Mental health nurse (RMN) or Health or Social Care professional
Post registration qualification / training in CYP mental health
Formal knowledge of CYP acquired through clinical post-graduate education

Desirable

Degree/ Masters level qualification relevant to CYP

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Employer details

Employer name

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Address

The Princess Alexandra Hospital

Hamstel Road

Harlow

CM20 1QX

Employer's website

https://www.pah.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Address

The Princess Alexandra Hospital

Hamstel Road

Harlow

CM20 1QX

Employer's website

https://www.pah.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Head of Nursing for CYP and Neonatal services

Janelle Gardner

janelle.gardner@nhs.net

01279827446

Date posted

23 October 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£43,574 to £49,587 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

292-4120655-RL1-C

Job locations

The Princess Alexandra Hospital

Hamstel Road

Harlow

CM20 1QX

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Children and Young People's Mental Health Liaison Nurse

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About us

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Date posted

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Experience

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Qualifications

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Experience

Essential

Qualifications

Essential

Desirable

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

UK Registration

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

UK Registration

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Address

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