Job summary
Employer heading
Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 4
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley.听We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary鈥檚 Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 鈥 the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable听over听听staying comfortable; Listening听听over听always knowing best; and Succeeding together听over听achieving alone.听
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as 鈥済ood鈥 or 鈥渙utstanding鈥 in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King鈥檚 College London鈥檚 GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
We are looking to recruit a 0.60 WTE Band 4 Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner to join a dynamic and motivated clinical team on the Children鈥檚 Ward at the QEH hospital. The successful candidate will be working on Tiger Safari / Children鈥檚 ED and provide high quality care to Children and Young People admitted for physical health and complex emotional and mental health needs under the care of specialist CAMHS Team.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and hardworking individual who can bring skills, experience and enthusiasm to meet the needs of children and young people with complex emotional and mental health needs. This post will offer training and development opportunities covering a wide range of physical health care. They will be well supported by a friendly team with opportunities to develop the service in which they work
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Main duties of the job
The candidate must have excellent communication skills and be able to effectively engage young people. The ability to work well within a team and forge good working relationships with multi-disciplinary and multi-agency colleagues is essential to this role. Experience of working with children or adolescents is desirable requirements for this post. This is also a great opportunity for Psychology graduates who are looking for clinical experience or nurse associates.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The role of the Mental Health Well-Being Practitioner as a member of the team is to provide specialist nursing care to children and their families. Ensure that the child鈥檚 care is assessed, planned, implemented and evaluated utilising a family centred approach, with a full understanding of diversity and equality issues.
The post holder will be expected to work with patients initially presenting in the emergency department and within the children鈥檚 ward as a member of the multidisciplinary team, delivering a high standard of evidence based care and treatment in order to maximise each young person鈥檚 individual potential.
The post holder is responsible for the assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of care to young people and families admitted to the ward in conjunction with the CAMHS crisis team.
To work as a multi-skilled member of the Children鈥檚 Inpatient team; maintaining high standards of practice and promoting the philosophy of child and family centered care.
He/she will deliver care that has already been planned by a clinician or a Registered Nurse and will be skilled in taking appropriate action to ensure that outcomes are achieved.
He/she will be competent, confident and adaptable and will require minimal supervision from the registered professionals within the team.
He / she will contribute to the efficient running of the department and ensure children and their parents are seen in a timely manner.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- GCSE/O level English or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- NVQ Health Care
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience in acute hospital setting or clinic
- Previous experience of working with children.
- Experience of working with children and young people in a mental health or social care setting
- Ability to document legibly and Precisely
- Demonstrates awareness of recourse management
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in Children鈥檚 Inpatient ward or similar
- Previous work with children and young people with mental illness
- Previous experience of working in a health or social care setting, either statutory or non-statutory service
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good understanding of the difficulties faced by children and young people experiencing mental health and Family centred focus care
- Able to interact well with multidisciplinary team and Patents/relatives
- Good clear verbal An awareness of the principles of social inclusion and recovery. Experience with mental health legislation. communication skills
- Computer literacy
Desirable criteria
- An awareness of the principles of social inclusion and recovery
- Experience with mental health legislation.
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Hannah Lawrence
- Job title
- Matron for Children's Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02088366226
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