Job summary
- Main area
- MHSOP Liaison Nurse
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity cover)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7211404RW
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Tyneside General Hospital
- Town
- North Shields
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Mental Health Services for Older People Liaison Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 6
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the Mental Health Services for Older People Liaison Team to recruit a B6 Nurse for a 12 month fixed term period. This would be to join a dynamic, well structured multidisciplinary team who provide mental health liaison input to the North Tyneside General Hospital site & also the Royal Quays Intermediate Care Unit.
The team provides specialist input to assessment, clinical care and therapy interventions for the older person who may be experiencing comorbid physical and mental health problems. We are looking for enthusiastic, motivated, caring and compassionate individuals who are eager to work with us to maintain the excellent working relationships that have been established with our colleagues across the trust in the delivery of holistic, person centred care and also help us with ongoing innovation and development.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
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To operate as a Mental Health Liaison Nurse within the Older Adult’s pathway at North Tyneside General Hospital and Royal Quays Intermediate Care Unit.
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To work as an integral part of the multidisciplinary ward team providing specialist mental health nursing assessment including risk assessments, clinical care and therapy interventions and be professionally accountable and responsible.
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To provide specialist skills, knowledge and experience for those identified as having Mental Health problems who also are also experiencing acute/chronic medical problems.
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To provide efficient and effective facilitation of patient journey from admission through to discharge.
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To aim to improve outcomes for older people with comorbid physical and mental health problems who are situated in the medical setting.
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To enhance and develop the skills/knowledge base of the general hospital staff and improve the quality of care by providing direct support in the planning and delivery of structured education to service users, relatives, carers and other professional staff.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide liaison service as above to the general hospital, intermediate care setting.
- To act as a specialist resource on older persons mental health issues to the general hospital, intermediate care.
- To undertake Specialist Mental Health Nurse role within the broader Mental Health Services for Older People department.
- To operate within a multidisciplinary framework and contribute meaningfully to the development of the service, and the provision of safe and effective care.
- Practice within legal and ethical frameworks encompassed within nursing and mental health legislation to exercise professional accountability as set out in NMC Professional Code of Conduct and work within the scope of practice.
- Reportable to MHSOP Liaison Nurse Lead.
Person specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health Nurse Part 1 with Current NMC registration.
- Successful completion of a post qualification Preceptorship programme
- Experience of working in a Mentor capacity with relevant qualification or willing to work towards within an agreed timescale.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
Desirable criteria
- Leadership or management qualification
- Post-basic qualification at Diploma / Degree leve
- Non-medical prescribing qualification or interest in working towards.
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Relevant post qualification experience in Older Adult Mental Health Services with both organic and functional health needs.
- Experience of teaching / or co facilitating formal teaching with staff
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with people with mental ill health in a medical setting.
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Joanne Leck
- Job title
- MHSOP Liaison Nurse Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 2934049
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