Children/Young People’s Mental Health Education Practitioner

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has become available at Stepping Hill Hospital  for a Children and Young Person Mental Health Nurse to join the welcoming Treehouse team. This role is based within the Treehouse children's Unit, working along side the  Children's Safeguarding Team. You will be fully supported by the Senior Nursing Team, Matron for ADHD and the Name Nurse for Safeguarding Children

You will be the specialist lead for children and young people presenting at the hospital with mental health and associated behavioural and emotional issues in the Emergency Department, on the Paediatric Unit and, for those young people aged 16-17 years, the adult wards.

You will work collaboratively with relevant disciplines, to be accountable for own decision making and clinical practice, care planning and intervention.  You will ensure joined-up, seamless care and service provision for vulnerable children and young people, especially those with mental health and associated behavioural and emotional difficulties.

You will develop knowledge and skills of staff across the Trust to support safe, high quality and evidence-based care for vulnerable children and young people, in order to develop and enhance services for this patient group throughout their hospital attendance, admission, discharge and follow-up care planning.

Main duties of the job

Lead on the further development and delivery of the children and young people’s mental health agenda; working closely alongside colleagues in all Paediatric areas to ensure timely and robust assessments and referrals are undertaken, in line with current policy and NICE guidelines.

Lead on the development of processes and procedures for those children and young people presenting in the Emergency Department or admitted onto the Paediatric Ward with mental health, behavioural and emotional needs.

Support the Paediatric services across the organisation to plan/organise actions to maximise the health of individuals, including multi-disciplinary/agency referrals and discharge planning; working closely with community services.

Maintain a highly visible, clinical presence and ensure others benefit from expertise through ‘on-the-job’ education, teaching and advice.

Evaluate additional training needs and deliver training the enhance the knowledge and skills of staff across the Trust.

Be the specialist lead for hospital staff in the care of vulnerable children and young people with mental health and associated behavioural and emotional issues and ensure engagement and links between all services is efficient and effective across all relevant services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Band 7 role however will consider band 6 to band 7 development role for the right candidate.

To work closely with mental health services to support Paediatric and Emergency Department staff to facilitate safe discharge planning for vulnerable children and young people; working closely alongside relevant services and care providers, to ensure safe and timely follow-up arrangements are in place and fully agreed by all relevant agencies and services.

To support the Paediatric services across the organisation to plan/organise actions to maximise the health of individuals, including multi-disciplinary/agency referrals and discharge planning; working closely with community services.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.

If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary

In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.