# Paediatric Liaison Nurse > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/paediatric-liaison-nurse/eba291bf-4587-445c-b0fe-72213b16c4b5 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/paediatric-liaison-nurse/eba291bf-4587-445c-b0fe-72213b16c4b5.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Royal Surrey Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £51,657 - £58,785 Incl 5% Fringe HCAS, per annum, pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-02T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-19T13:01:00.284Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Surrey/Guildford/Surrey_Borders_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Nursing/Nursing-v8241019 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8241019?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.sabp.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview 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 place as 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. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities We are committed to our staff’s future development and offering training opportunities. These include but isn’t 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. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - 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. **Desirable** - Working with other agencies and as part of a multi-disciplinary team - Good understanding of family functioning and knowledge and awareness of Safeguarding procedures ### Qualifications **Essential** - A clinical qualification to degree level or equivalent Membership of NMC professional body ## Documents - [vacancy links (pdf, 344.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2727) - [job description (pdf, 416.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10551898) - [golden hello doc (pdf, 504.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10551899) - [carers information (pdf, 604.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2716) - [sabp competency profile map (pdf, 672.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2714) - [mindful employer information (pdf, 195.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2715) - [benefits of nhs pension scheme (pdf, 264.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2717) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.