Employer The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Town King's Lynn
Salary £26,530 - £29,114 per annum pro rata
Salary period Yearly
Closing 09/04/2025 23:59
Paediatric Mental Health Support Worker
Band 4
Job overview
Your role will include working closely with the Paediatric Mental Health Practitioner to expand and develop the service. The role will involve working directly with Children & Young People to deliver safe, compassionate, and dignified patient centred care, adopting a holistic approach which includes psychological support for all CYP presenting at QEH with a mental health presentation/condition.
You will be working with the wider mental health services from other agencies, attending multi-disciplinary and safeguarding meetings.
You will also be working as part of the wider paediatric nursing team with the expectation that clinical duties will be undertaken after gaining required competencies.
Main duties of the job
1. To actively participate in the planning and delivery of CYP individual care plan, which address the mental health needs of Children & Young People, whilst a patient within the hospital.
2. Undertake interventions that have been identified as part of the CYP’s treatment pathway.
3. Support CYP to develop coping skills, crisis management and carry out emotional stabilisation work to support discharge back to a community setting.
4. Prepare Children & Young People for the discharge pathway back to a community setting or specialist admission.
5. Ensure all communication relevant to CYP is shared with clinical colleagues.
6. Working alongside nursing colleagues, completing basic admission and assessment process, with a mental health presentation, completing child and young person wishes, feelings, goal setting and management of risk, with the support of PaMHS.
7. Gain competencies in clinical skills to allow supportive working within Paediatric ward in the absence of CYP with a mental health presentation.
Working for our organisation
There’s never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We’re working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital to open in 2030 and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we’ve ever undertaken.
Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.
At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.
We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as ‘Good’, and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.
We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit. We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome.
We love working here and think you will too.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information about this role, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications/training and professional development
* Registered practitioner within mental health
* Educated to a minimum of foundation degree level
Experience
* Significant experience working within mental health
* Experience of working with children
* Previous experience of working with MDT
Skills, abilities and knowledge
* Good theoretical knowledge and practical knowledge of the care and support required by Children & Young People with mental health needs
* Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care; working alone and as part of a team
* Understanding the principles of clinical governance and clinical supervision
* Ability to manage and prioritise workload and effective time management
* Able to recognise situations detrimental to health and act as required
Applications are welcome from anyone who meets the criteria specified in the person specification regardless of age, gender, disability, race, ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation or other personal circumstances. Only those applicants who demonstrate in the application form how they meet the criteria in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We not only recruit employees based on their qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who possess and can demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our core values (attached).
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We offer our staff a wide range of benefits and support including:
* Flexible working opportunities
* Free counselling service
* Access to Wagestream - an app-based service that provides instant earned wage access*
* Support and advice for staff affected by either Peri-Menopause or Menopause
Opportunity to join our Staff Networks which include: Armed Forces, REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Culture Heritage), Disability and LGBTQ+ networks.
We are committed to being a menopause friendly employer.
Please note due to high volume of applications for some posts, this post may close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role asap.
Admin & Clerical staff may be required to act as Loggists for a major incident.
Everyone within the Trust has or will shortly need to have a minimum level of skill for computer literacy for their day-to-day work as we become more digitally mature. Therefore all staff should be computer literate.
Team QEH are one of the most research-active organisations for our size in the UK, recruiting 2,188 in 20/21 and ranked 10/16 in the Eastern Region. We have a wide-ranging and diverse portfolio of clinical studies and also recognised as one of the fastest trusts in the country from set up to recruitment.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name Karen Jackson Job title Paediatric Mental Health Practitioner Email address karen.jackson2@qehkl.nhs.uk Telephone number 01553 613289 Additional information
Rachael Wilson - Rudham Ward 01553 613844
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