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We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within the Trust.
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Come and join our team
We are a growing, thriving and innovative Children’s Emergency Department (CED)
Our vision is: To be a world leading children’s emergency department providing the best care for all children .
The CED team consists of a comprehensive medical team, skill mix of nursing team, health care support workers and emergency nurse practitioners, mental health practitioner, reception admin staff.
The current clinical facilities comprise: a 3 bay resuscitation room (2 trolleys and 1 baby resuscitaire), and 12 clinical spaces. One of these clinical spaces has been transformed into a soft space which is used for those children and young people with mental health needs, learning difficulties and motor difficulties and neurodiversity.
CED has an opportunity to welcome a specialist role of Band 7 Mental Health Practitioners working across the week. Our vision is to provide expert in-house mental health care and assessment.
The role will provide initial assessment, consultation, advice and signposting, integrated as part of multi-disciplinary whole person assessment. These children and young people can present as a primary mental health crisis or a secondary mental health need. The role also involves cross department working to assess 16–17-year-olds in the adult emergency department. A central role will be liaison with other services (including General Practice) to support the care with acute, chronic or co-existing emotional and mental health needs, presenting to CED. The individual must be confident in making admission or discharge decisions.
Avon & Wiltshire Mental health partnership (AWP) CAMHS intensive outreach team (CIOT), are our closely interfaced partners for planning care & safe, timely transfers and discharges.
Additionally, focus is on an approach which is multi professional, meeting both primary and secondary mental health presentations collaboratively within CED.
You will be supported by the CED Consultant lead for mental health, the Hospital senior nurse - lead for mental health and CIOT Hospital Team manager.
We welcome applications from qualified mental health professionals including Registered Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists & clinical psychologists who have appropriate experience of mental health assessment and risk assessment. We are also interested in graduates from a relevant discipline with substantial mental health service provision.
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.