Mental Health Liaison Nurse for Children & Young People

NHS; Gillingham; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the NHS as a Mental Health Liaison Nurse focusing on children and young people. You will support the pediatric management and develop crucial educational interventions, ensuring the delivery of the best care. Contribute to a trustworthy and inclusive environment while making a meaningful impact on the lives of children facing mental health challenges.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Diversity and inclusion policies

Qualifications

• Evidence of relevant post-registration professional development required.
• Significant experience in acute paediatrics essential.
• Knowledge of mental health legislation and assessment frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate assessments and support for C&YP in mental health crises.
• Develop educational interventions for the Paediatric nursing team.
• Support care provision and attend multidisciplinary team meetings.

Skills

Interpersonal & communication skills

Compassionate leadership

Flexibility across organisational cultures

Team player

Quality Improvement Projects knowledge

Education

Degree or willingness to work towards

Teaching/Assessing Qualification

RMN/RSCN/RN Child certification

Specialist course relevant to post

Job description

Care Group: Children and Young People

Band: 7

Interview Date: 18th July 2025

We are recruiting for a Mental Health Liaison Nurse for Children & Young Peoplewho shares our ambition and vision to deliver theBest of Care by the Best Peopleand 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 holderwith 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.

About us

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of theBest 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.

Job 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 interventionsfor 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 familys needs

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Evidence of a relevant post-registration professional development
• Degree or willingness to work towards
• Teaching/ Assessing Qualification.
• RMN/ RSCN / RN Child
• Specialist course relevant to post

Knowledge

• 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
• 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

• 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
• Work flexibly to facilitate and encompass change
• Experience of evidenced based clinical audit
• Have an understanding of planning, implementing and evaluating Quality Improvement Projects

Skills

• 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
• 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

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.

£46,148 to £52,809 a yearper annum/pro rata