Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift pattern, mixture of days & nights.)
- Job ref
- 411-COM-25-7127829
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sunflower House, Alder Hey Children's Hospital
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Staff Nurse/Key Worker
NHS AfC: Band 5
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
To work as the key nurse, ensuring the delivery of a high standard of family centred assessment and treatment plans as agreed with the multidisciplinary team 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 and community setting. To support the day-to-day organisational planning and operational management of aspects of the Unit, including managing ad hoc shifts or defined areas of a shift as requested by the senior nurse.
Main duties of the job
Using a range of clinical skills, to assist and at times autonomously lead on
assessment and treatment care needs, within a risk assessment framework for children and their families admitted to the Unit.
To assist in the planning, implementation and evaluation of family centred
nursing care and management plans as agreed with the core team.
To support the delivery of a range of daily individual and group structures to promote the therapeutic milieu of the Unit. This includes providing agreed activity groups and individual activities.
To observe, communicate and at times, co work with senior multidisciplinary team members, in the provision of a range of therapeutic approaches on an individual, group or family basis.
Working for our organisation
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 our Innovation 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Using a range of clinical skills, to assist and at times autonomously lead on
assessment and treatment care needs, within a risk assessment framework for children and their families admitted to the Unit.
To assist in the planning, implementation and evaluation of family centred
nursing care and management plans as agreed with the core team.
To support the delivery of a range of daily individual and group structures to promote the therapeutic milieu of the Unit. This includes providing agreed activity groups and individual activities.
To observe, communicate and at times, co work with senior multidisciplinary team members, in the provision of a range of therapeutic approaches on an individual, group or family basis.
To provide high quality clear written and verbal accounts of the child’s stay in relation 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
Essential criteria
- Registered RMN or RNLD or RSCN (with experience in CAMH through placements)
Desirable criteria
- Completed preceptorship
Experience
Essential criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Experience within the field of CAMH
- Inpatient provision of care
- Risk assessment and management tools/processes
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- LD/MH presentations
- Team working (reasons for)
- Supervision and support systems (reason for)
- Risk assessment and management (reasons for)
- Evidence based practice
Desirable criteria
- Child/adolescent mental health problems and approaches to assessment and treatment
Skills
Essential criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of the therapeutic milieu
- Individual and group activities
Training & Development
Essential criteria
- Identify own training and development needs
- Participate in training and development sessions
- Read and identify evidence-based practice
Desirable criteria
- Provide aspects of training and development processes to other new staff/students
- Participate in research/audit
Managerial
Essential criteria
- Effective/efficient time management skills
- Conflict management skills
- Approaches to promote a safe, healthy and therapeutic environment
Desirable criteria
- Staff organisation skills
- Skills in providing daily structures /activities
- Monitoring and supervision skills for working with support workers and student nurses
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- 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.
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lauren Johnston
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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