Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (12 month FTC)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon-Fri 9-5)
- Job ref
- 367-SS-101688
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Kingsley Green
- Town
- Radlett
- Salary
- £68,852 - £79,638 per annum, pro rata (inclusive of 5% HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/10/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Nurse Consultant- CYP High Intensity Pathway
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
Job overview
Are you an exceptional CYP nurse ready to shape the future of high-intensity care? We are seeking a dynamic, ambitious and highly experienced CYP PICU/LSU Pathway Nurse Consultant to provide expert clinical leadership across the East of England Provider Collaborative (EoEPC). Working alongside senior leaders, nurses, case managers and people who use our services, you will help turn our shared ambitions for CYPMH services into lasting change.
This is a high-profile opportunity to transform how care is commissioned and delivered for children and young people with complex needs and increased risk. You will bring a wealth of advanced clinical experience in CYP and PICU nursing, combining authoritative practice, sound professional judgement and the credibility to influence across organisational boundaries.
As the first postholder in this newly created role, you will have the freedom and influence to set the standard. We are looking for a nurse consultant with clear evidence of clinical innovation, research engagement and translating evidence into measurable service improvement. You will lead transformation, strengthen nursing practice and demonstrate the impact that expert nursing leadership can achieve across the High-Intensity Pathway.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will lead on the operation and development of the CYPMH PICU Advisory service, working alongside the collaboratives single point of access (Patient Flow Hub) and the clinical lead. They will be a senior member of the Patient Flow Team, responsible for the gatekeeping of referrals across East of England.
During Phase 1 of the pathway development the NC role will focus upon referrals where a GAU or a community referrer is requesting higher level of security or intervention for CYP. In phase 2, the NC will join the project team in developing and implementing the new PICU -LSU model in EoE. This project aims to reduce the escalation to the LSU pathway and implement an enhanced therapeutic inpatient model.
Working collaboratively with providers and other stakeholders, the postholder will support the on-going development, implementation, and monitoring of the CYPMHS High Intensity provision, offering consultation, training, and support for clinicians with the management of complex presentations, primarily within GAU Tier 4 settings. There may be occasions which require work outside of these settings, such as acute hospitals and within local communities where a PICU referral is made directly for CYP. The post holder will provide specialist clinical knowledge and advice to the Transformation and Commissioning Team (TACT) on all aspects of CYPMHS PICU development, clinical governance, quality and service improvement initiatives.
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,500 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide strategic nursing input at senior level and to ensure effective advice to the Collaborative and other management team members, to provide effective, user focused Children and Young People’s mental health services and a high standard of nursing care throughout the service.
To work in close collaboration with other senior members of the collaborative, and external agencies, contributing to the planning and delivery of high-quality service with regards to the development of CYPMH inpatient and community services.
To develop nurse-led initiatives regarding care programmes, which incorporate the postholder’s higher level of practice, advancing nursing practice and opportunities for patients’ treatment, intervention and mental health and physical care needs providing specialist nursing advice and input.
To be able to participate in national workstreams for the development of CYPMHS PICU services and CYPMHS PICU initiatives.
To be able to participate in workstreams for the development of CYPMHS low secure services alternatives within EoEPC services.
The core functions of the role are based on the DH (1999) and DHNI (2018) four functions/main areas for Consultant Nurse practice: expert practice; professional leadership and consultancy; education and development; and practice and service development linked to research and evaluation.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health Learning Disability Nurse with extensive post registration Experience
- A management qualification or equivalent experience
- A leadership qualification or equivalent experience
- Nursing professional registration
Desirable criteria
- higher Degree in a Nursing Qualification, preferably to Doctorate level
- advanced clinical practice skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience leading innovation and best nursing practice in CYPMH within the context of a multidisciplinary environment and across complex systems. including CYP/LD HDU/PICU experience
- Extensive and broad range of NHS work with significant seniority within profession.
- Evidence of delivering significant service change and developments
- Representing key issues at senior management level and above.
- Extensive experience of working within a management and clinical setting,
Desirable criteria
- Research experience
- Experience in providing clinical supervision for multi-disciplinary clinicians and for complex case presentations.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Wendy Allam
- Job title
- Head of Nursing Specialist Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07771 814893
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