Job summary
This post is open to nurses (all branches), midwives, and AHPs. If you would like to make a difference for adults, children, and young people with complex needs (learning disabilities, autism, dementia, delirium, and mental health) then this post is for you. This exciting opportunity to work with the complex needs team as a Complex Needs Liaison Professional, will give you the opportunity to support us to ensure patients with a complex need receive excellent patient experience each and every time. If you want to work for a fast paced team that strives for excellence then this is the role for you.
Main duties of the job
The role of complex needs liaison professional is an integral role in ensuring that patients with complex needs receive excellent patient experience. Duties include:
Support the development of practice with
service leads and others as appropriate.
Work closely with all members of the Complex
Needs Team to ensure the teams objectives, that are aligned to the complex
needs forward plan and complex needs delivery group action plan, are met.
Provide advice and support on the mental
health act to ward staff and support the receipt and scrutiny of Mental Health
Act Paperwork.
Raise the profile of the health care needs of
people with a complex need across secondary care provision.
Bridge the gap between community and
secondary services to enable better communication and access to healthcare for
people with complex needs.
Assess and advise accordingly on the issues
surrounding the needs of some people with complex needs, on their admission to
hospital care settings while working alongside clinical staff.
Facilitate the meeting of individual
healthcare needs for people with complex needs.
About us
We provide care and support to over a million people in
Wakefield and Kirklees in their homes, community settings and across our
three hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury and Pinderfields (Wakefield).
Always striving for excellence, we are at the forefront of
innovation and research, and we invest in teaching and the development of our
workforce.
We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectful
and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make Mid
Yorkshire the best place to work and receive care.
We value diversity and welcome talent and enthusiasm
irrespective of age, disability, neurodivergence, sex, gender identity and
gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation,
or other personal circumstances including providing unpaid carers support to
someone with a health and care need. As ethnic minority groups, members of the
LGBTQ+ community, and people with a disability/neurodivergence are currently
under-represented across the organisation, we encourage applications from
members of these groups. We have policies and procedures to ensure all
applicants are treated fairly and consistently.
We are proud of our staff networks - who offer valuable
guidance and feedback from those with lived experience.
We have a clear vision and you could be part of this! If
you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of our
patients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post
holder will work under the supervision of the Lead Professional for Complex
Needs and co-ordinate their activities to ensure that an efficient service is
provided.
Support
the development of practice with service leads and others as appropriate.
Act as a
specialist in practice development issues to improve care for patients with a
Complex Need.
Work
closely with all members of the Complex Needs Team to ensure the teams
objectives, that are aligned to the complex needs forward plan and complex
needs delivery group action plan, are met.
Provide
advice and support on the mental health act to ward staff and support the receipt
and scrutiny of Mental Health Act Paperwork.
Maintain
excellent communication networks and relationships within and externally to the
Trust.
Raise the
profile of the health care needs of people with a complex need across secondary
care provision.
Bridge
the gap between community and secondary services to enable better communication
and access to healthcare for people with complex needs.
Assess
and advise accordingly on the issues surrounding the needs of some people with complex
needs, on their admission to hospital care settings.
Facilitate
the meeting of individual healthcare needs for people with complex needs.
Work in
partnership with people with complex needs, self-advocacy groups, and carers
groups and Wakefield learning disability partnership board in the development,
implementation and maintenance of service provision and change.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse, Midwife or Allied Health Professional.
Desirable
- Recognised teaching qualification post-registration qualification or experience of teaching.
- Independent Prescriber.
Experience
Essential
- Clinical experience caring for patients with one of the complex needs (Learning Disability, Autism, Dementia, Delirium or Mental Health).
- Evidence of continued professional development.
Desirable
- Experience of audit, research and evidence-based care.
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- knowledge into at least one of the Complex Needs.
- Teaching / assessment skills Organisation and negotiation skills.
- Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal and communication skills.
- Evidence of audit and change management ability.
- Computer literate.
- Ability to motivate self and others.
Desirable
- Evidence of leading and facilitating change.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust
Address
Trust HQ and Education Centre, Pinderfields Hospital
Aberford Road
Wakefield
West Yorkshire
WF1 4DG