Staff Nurse/Key Worker

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust; Grimsby; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Staff Nurse/Key Worker to deliver high-quality family-centred assessment and treatment within inpatient and community settings. You will work with the multidisciplinary team to ensure safe, effective care for children and their families.

The role requires clinical leadership, participation in daily activities and evidence-based practice while maintaining confidentiality and compassionate communication.

Qualifications

• Registered RMN/RNLD/RSCN with CAMH placement experience.
• Experience in MH/LD settings and inpatient care.
• Able to work in a multi-disciplinary team and mentor junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Lead on assessment and treatment within a risk framework for children.
• Assist in planning, implementing and evaluating family-centred nursing care.
• Deliver daily activity structures and therapeutic activities with MDT support.
• Provide high-quality written and verbal accounts of a child's stay.
• Support supervision and development of new staff and students.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Observational skills

Leadership and mentoring

Flexible approach

Team coordination

Education

Registered RMN or RNLD or RSCN (CAMH placements)

Job description

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Staff Nurse/Key Worker

The closing date is 25 November 2026

To work as the key nurse, ensuring the delivery of a high standard of familycentred assessment and treatment plans as agreed with the multidisciplinaryteam on a day-to-day basis through participation in and the provision of, aspects of a wide range of therapeutic approaches and activities within the inpatient andcommunity setting.To support the day-to-day organisational planning and operational managementof aspects of the Unit, including managing ad hoc shifts or defined areas of ashift as requested by the senior nurse.

Main duties of the job

Using a range of clinical skills, to assist and at times autonomously lead onassessment and treatment care needs, within a risk assessment frameworkfor children and their families admitted to the Unit.

To assist in the planning, implementation and evaluation of family centrednursing care and management plans as agreed with the core team.

To support the delivery of a range of daily individual and group structures topromote the therapeutic milieu of the Unit. This includes providing agreedactivity groups and individual activities.To observe, communicate and at times, co work with senior multidisciplinaryteam members, in the provision of a range of therapeutic approaches on anindividual, group or family basis.

About us

As one of Europe's biggest and busiest children's hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions.In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.

Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children's medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world's leaders in children's healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children's specialists. Alongside this is ourInnovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.

We know that a children's hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.

Job responsibilities

Using a range of clinical skills, to assist and at times autonomously lead onassessment and treatment care needs, within a risk assessment frameworkfor children and their families admitted to the Unit.

To assist in the planning, implementation and evaluation of family centrednursing care and management plans as agreed with the core team.

To support the delivery of a range of daily individual and group structures topromote the therapeutic milieu of the Unit. This includes providing agreedactivity groups and individual activities.To observe, communicate and at times, co work with senior multidisciplinaryteam members, in the provision of a range of therapeutic approaches on anindividual, group or family basis.To provide high quality clear written and verbal accounts of the childs stay inrelation to the defined care and management plans.

To contribute to evidence-based clinical nursing reports, for parents and multidisciplinary professionals as agreed with the core team.

To actively access and participate in the unit supervision and support process and in line with development, to provide on a shift by shift basis, the same to newly qualified/appointed nurse, support worker and student nurse staff.

To follow and inform the development of policies and protocols to support evidence based clinical practice. Proactively manage telephone calls; many may be of a sensitive nature from patients/parents/carers or from other healthcare professions, all of which require a high level of patient confidentiality and sensitivity.

Responsibility for providing accurate, up to date, clinical advice relating to queries into the department.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered RMN or RNLD or RSCN (with experience in CAMH through placements)

Experience

• Placements or direct working within a MH or LD setting
• Organising own duties and prioritize tasks within a busy team environment.
• Working within a multi-disciplinary team
• Actively participating in mentoring/supervision processes
• Experience within the field of CAMH
• Inpatient provision of care
• Risk assessment and management tools/processes

Knowledge

• LD/MH presentations
• Team working (reasons for)
• Supervision and support systems (reason for)
• Risk assessment and management (reasons for)
• Evidence based practice
• Child/adolescent mental health problems and approaches to assessment and treatment

Skills

• Excellent communication skills when providing or receiving complex or sensitive information.
• Excellent observational skills to support safe and effective care and treatment
• Ability to adopt a flexible approach when required by the needs of the service
• Ability to coordinate and prioritise workload and meet deadlines
• Understanding of the therapeutic milieu
• Individual and group activities

Training & Development

• Identify own training and development needs
• Participate in training and development sessions
• Read and identify evidence-based practice
• Provide aspects of training and development processes to other new staff/students
• Participate in research/audit

Managerial

• Approaches to promote a safe, healthy and therapeutic environment
• Skills in providing daily structures /activities
• Monitoring and supervision skills for working with support workers and student nurses

Personal Attributes

• Capacity to listen and act in a caring manner towards patients, relatives and visitors, especially where there are barriers to understanding.
• Ability to demonstrate excellent leadership skills, including leading change, empowering others and holding people to account.

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.

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Sunflower House, Alder Hey Children's Hospital

Sunflower House, Alder Hey Children's Hospital