Community Mental Health Nurse

Job summary

We are delighted to be recruiting a Mental Health Nurse to join our Central Norfolk Early Intervention in Psychosis Team on a six month secondment. This is an exciting and rare opportunity to join us as a Band 5 Lead Care Professional, due to a bespoke position becoming available on a secondment basis. We are looking for a dynamic individual who has a minimum of a years post-registration experience and is passionate about improving services for those experiencing First Episode Psychosis (FEP) aged 14-65.

This presents an ideal opportunity for a somebody to become a member our well established, experienced, service and we look forward to welcoming people with an interest in joining us in our vision to provide good quality, person-centred care to people experiencing (FEP).

Successful applicants will become a part of a highly skilled and experienced team delivering targeted interventions . Previous experience of working with Psychosis would be advantageous but is not essential.

If you have an interest in specialist mental health services and a desire to help service users and families to thrive, then you may be the right person for our team.

Main duties of the job

We are looking to recruit a motivated mental health nurse to be part of our multi-disciplinary team who provide practical, emotional, therapeutic and medical support to people experiencing First Episode Psychosis.

You will be the lead care professional, working alongside a senior practitioner, to support a capped caseload of people by delivering NICE concordant care.

Staff well-being is integral part of our service line and there are opportunities for CPD development, specialist training, supervision, support from experienced colleagues and to be involved in the development of a service that wants to make a difference to people's lives.

If you are interested please take a look at the Job Description for more information about this post.

Please don't hesitate to call us to discuss anything about the team or the role.Jo Newman, Clinical Team Manager, or Kim Wilkinson, Service Manager, can be contacted on 01603671901.

About us

We believe that ongoing training, support and a positive and friendly culture is vital for our team's emotional wellbeing and allowing them to be able to provide the best possible care. We are looking for people with the drive to develop therapeutic relationships to work with people through their recovery journey who can apply their motivational enhancement skills, observation skills and ability to confidently engage with all those participating in this journey.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

7 Unthank Road

Norwich

NR2 2PA

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

7 Unthank Road

Norwich

NR2 2PA

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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