Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term/Secondment)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 275-2506MHLN-CYP
- Employer
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medway Maritime Hospital
- Town
- Gillingham
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Mental Health Liaison Nurse for Children & Young People
Band 7
Job overview
Mental Health Liaison Nurse for Children & Young People
Division: Women, Children and Young People
Care Group: Children and Young People
Band: 7
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum/pro rata
Interview Date: 18th July 2025
We are recruiting for a Mental Health Liaison Nurse for Children & Young People who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Main duties of the job
This post holder with the Paediatric team will play a key role in supporting the management of these CYP.
The post holder will also facilitate relevant training, supervision / debriefing and support the Paediatric team, and facilitate and act as the interface between ChED, PAU, Paediatric ward, Crisis Team for C&YP, All Age Eating Disorder (AAEDS) and Children and Young People Mental Health Service practitioners (CYPMHS).
They will provide expertise and vision in developing and improving services for C&YP, support and deputise for the Clinical Nurse Lead for Mental Health (for Paediatrics only).
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
Working for our organisation
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.
As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy – Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.
Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:
B – Bold
E – Every person counts
S – Sharing and open
T - Together
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The purpose of this role is to facilitate safe and timely assessments and ongoing support to C&YP who present in a mental health crisis.
The post holder will help to develop and deliver robust educational interventions for the Paediatric nursing team, that promotes best practice in the management of C&YP experiencing, or at risk of self-harm (with the MFT Paediatric PDN).
They will support staff within the units to appropriately risk assess, support care provision and attend MDT meetings to support the pathway of C&YP with mental health conditions within the Medway Foundation NHS Trust.
· Working alongside the Children and Young Persons Mental Health Service (CYPMHS) Crisis Team and All Age Eating Disorder Services (AAEDS) to assist staff to assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing provision for C&YP who have an identified mental health need
Support staff to develop and implement specialist nursing protocols, developing care packages and programs of care for C&YP who self-harm or have an eating disorder, including the involvement of multi-agency input around the C&YP and their family’s needs
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Evidence of a relevant post-registration professional development
- Degree or willingness to work towards
- Teaching/ Assessing Qualification.
- RMN/ RSCN / RN Child
Desirable criteria
- Specialist course relevant to post
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Significant experience as a Band 6 post involving care of acute paediatrics
- Experience of working with children and young people who have a mental health illness
- Knowledge of the appropriate legislation around mental health act and the legal frameworks within which mental illness can be assessed and treated
- Knowledge and experience of undertaking comprehensive C&YP mental health, assessments and risk management
- Proven management and safeguarding experience
- Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance
- Knowledge of local community and understanding of a multi-cultural, racially diverse population
- Knowledge of current professional issues relating to nursing
Desirable criteria
- Experience working for Children and Young People Mental Health Mental Health Serivce (CYPMHS) within an acute/specialist mental health team – community or inpatient service
- Post registration study
Experience
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal & communication skills
- Compassionate and Inclusive Leadership skills
- Demonstrate an understanding of the need to work flexibly across a variety of organisational cultures
- Work as a team player with the ability to motivate staff and facilitate effective team working
- Confident decision – maker
- Work flexibly to facilitate and encompass change
Desirable criteria
- Experience of evidenced based clinical audit
- Have an understanding of planning, implementing and evaluating Quality Improvement Projects
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to support and manage a case-load of patients including assessment, planning, monitoring and evaluation, including providing health promotion and education to patients and carers
- Ability to organise and deliver a high standard of evidence based clinical nursing care
- Ability to demonstrate effective written and verbal communication skills
- Act as a patient advocate and staff advocate
- Ability to liaise and collaborate effectively with members of the Primary Health Care team, shared care teams and tertiary centres
- Ability to liaise effectively with internal and external agencies
- Ability to work on own initiative and prioritise work
Desirable criteria
- De-escalation management of situations
- Planning and Implementation of staff training packages / sessions
- Commitment to working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to adapt to the changing needs of the service and explore alternative working practices
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Suzy Dolby
- Job title
- Paediatric Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01634976149
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