# Paediatric Liaison Nurse

**Company**: Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Redhill
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £51657.00 to £58785.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

As a Paediatric Liaison Nurse, you will lead and manage care of Children and Young People (CYP) who present in the Emergency Department (ED) at the District General Hospital (DGH). You will work 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.

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.

Main duties of the job:

- Provide visible, credible professional clinical leadership, supporting the clinical management of CYP with mental health issues who have presented to the Emergency Department.

- 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.

- Ensure 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.

- 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.

- Manage CYP presenting with mental health, emotional health and social care needs, co-ordinating between the medical, nursing CYPS community teams.

The salary for this role is £51,657 to £58,785 a year, including 5% Fringe HCAS, per annum, pro rata.

The trust offers various training opportunities, including Professional Nurse Advocate training, Nurse Prescriber training, and access to APT accredited courses.

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## Skills

### Required
- Mental Health Nursing
- NMC registration
- post qualifying experience

### Nice to have
- experience working with CYP with mental health needs
- understanding of family functioning
- knowledge of Safeguarding procedures

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