Acute Liaison Nurse (Learning Disability & Mental Health)

Alder Hey; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading children's hospital in Liverpool seeks an Acute Liaison Nurse to ensure high standards of care for children and young people. The successful candidate will participate in multidisciplinary treatment plans and deliver family-centered assessments. This position offers an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the lives of children within a supportive environment. If you're passionate about providing excellent care and have experience working with children, we invite you to apply.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering high standard family-centered care.
• Ability to work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Ensure delivery of care for children and young people.
• Participate in multidisciplinary team assessments and treatment planning.

Skills

Family centered assessment

Therapeutic approaches

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Acute Liaison Team at Alder Hey with a focus on implementing reasonable adjustments for children & young people in order for them to access appropriate physical/medical healthcare within an acute hospital setting and within the wider community.

To work as an acute liaison nurse, ensuring the delivery of a high standard of C/YP family centered 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 hospital setting.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Tony Maguire
Job title: Acute Liaison Team Lead
Email address: [e-mail]
Telephone number: 01512284811

Rebecca McDonald

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