Paediatric Liaison Nurse

NHS; Guildford; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in Guildford seeks a Paediatric Liaison Nurse to lead care for children with mental health needs in the Emergency Department. You will engage in multi-disciplinary work to enhance patient experiences and ensure effective service delivery. A clinical qualification and substantial experience are required. The role offers a competitive salary ranging from £50,008 to £56,908, with additional benefits including a Golden Hello payment.

Benefits

Golden Hello payment of £3,000

Professional development training

Qualifications

• 3 years post qualifying experience, including 1 year as a Band 6 in community.
• Experience with CYP mental health needs in a community crisis setting.
• Understanding of Safeguarding procedures.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage care for CYP in the Emergency Department.
• Ensure safe and efficient operation of the service.
• Improve patient experience and quality of service.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Mental health assessment

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Family functioning understanding

Education

Clinical qualification to degree level

Job description

Go back Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Paediatric Liaison Nurse

The closing date is 18 September 2025

My job makes better lives by leading and managing care of Children and Young People (CYP) who present in the Emergency Department (ED) at the District General Hospital (DGH) and by working in partnership with the multi-disciplinary team consisting of representatives from the ED, police, ambulance, and mental health service alongside CYP and their families/carers collaboratively making a difference to their lives.

Job Overview

As part of a partnership within the Paediatric ED at the DGH it is vital to ensure the service operates in a safe, effective and efficient way as part of a whole system. Foster a culture that encourages and enables individuals to have an active role in identifying, planning and meeting their individual needs. Support strategic leadership in relation to service improvement and quality evaluation

The Paediatric Liaison Service is vital to ensuring the needs of CYP presenting at ED with mental health and emotional issues are, in a timely manner, assessed and an appropriate response to their needs is put in placeas part of the partnership between you and the ED Paediatric colleagues.

Please note: There are vacancies in Royal Surrey County Hospital.

Main duties of the job

• To provide visible, credible professional clinical leadership, supporting the clinical management of CYP with mental health issues who have presented to the Emergency Department, who may have CYP with challenging behaviour as a result of an underlying condition such as learning difficulties, Asperger's and ADHD.
• To improve patient experience, quality and efficiency of service in DGH by focusing on the significant number of CYP with mental health issues that can complicate their care and discharge.
• Ensuring the care delivered to CYP with mental and physical health needs is of a high quality, research based, and is CYP and family/carer focused.
• To support the wider paediatric nursing and medical team, by arranging training opportunities to up-skill all professionals on effectively managing CYP's mental health needs.
• To manage CYP presenting with mental health. Emotional health and social care needs, co-ordinating between the medical, nursing CYPS community teams.

GOLDEN HELLO

We are pleased to announce that we are in a position to offer a Golden Hello payment of £3,000 (pro rata) for this vacancy eligible to the external candidates only. Payment would be made in three instalments. Further details can be found in the supporting documents.

About us

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Job responsibilities

We are committed to our staffs future development and offering training opportunities.These includebut isnt exhaustive, Professional Nurse Advocate training, Nurse Prescriber training and access to APT accredited courses.

Please check the job description and personal specification document for more information on the requirement for this job.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• A clinical qualification to degree level or equivalent Membership of NMC professional body

Experience

• 3 years post qualifying experience, 1 of which must have been a year as a Band 6 in community. Experience working with CYP with mental health needs in the community crisis setting
• Experience in undertaking mental health assessments, risk assessments, risk formulations, crisis and contingency planning and use of outcome measures.
• Working with other agencies and as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Good understanding of family functioning and knowledge and awareness of Safeguarding procedures

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.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

£50,008 to £56,908 a yearIncl 5% Fringe HCAS, per annum, pro rata