Mental Health Champion/ Young People Practitioner for Children Service

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Full time
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) Children service is looking to recruit a talented, inspirational, collaborative senior children/mental health nurse, or senior allied health professional with specialism in Children and Young People care.

As well as advocating for mental health across our children services, the individual would help facilitate join up between RNOH practitioners, Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services, Liaison teams, learning disability and autism services, safeguarding and other key partners.

Main duties of the job

Build team confidence in supporting CYP and families with mental and emotional needs. Encourage staff uptake of mental health related training and disseminating of learning. Facilitate joint working across mental health and physical health, working with Children Hospital clinical leads and executive leadership to encourage 'parity of esteem'. Building supportive and collaborative relationships with internal multidisciplinary team and colleagues in local CYP mental health teams and local authority services, such as social services. Networking with others Mental Health Champions and similar roles across local, regional, and national systems to enhance dissemination of information from NHSE, Royal Colleges and professional bodies sharing of good practice and feedback 'from the ground' to facilitate problem solving and further development nationally. Facilitate improvements in joint working across RNOH and wider ICB systems and providers of CYP mental health care. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team's operational policies and services and participate in the development of high quality, responsive and accessible services.

About us

RNOH Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro-musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the trust. RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world's most complex and innovative care to our patients. RNOH is rated good by the CQC and covers two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main Duties and Responsibilities include Management and Leadership, Education, Training and Development and Clinical Audit.

Further details in the attached Job Description.

Person Specification

Education

Essential

Registered healthcare professional with active HCPC or NMC registration First level registered/mental health nurse/ children's nursing/AHP

Desirable

Teaching and assessing qualification.

Experience

Essential

Significant experience of working with CYP and families with complex cases and safeguarding challenges Evidence of collaborative working across professional and organisational boundaries, such as Mental Health teams, local authorities, education, and social services Demonstrable success of implementing strategic objectives

Desirable

Experience of working with CAMHS in an acute/non-acute Children setting

Skills and Ability

Essential

Knowledge of impact of physical health on mental health and vice versa Developing and implementing policies, guidelines

Desirable

Experience of organising, writing, and delivering in-service training programmes.

Employer details

Employer name

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust

Address

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust

Brockley Hill

Stanmore

HA7 4LP

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