Community Mental Health Nurse

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

The closing date is 18 May 2025

Job summary

The North West Community Mental Health Team provides patient centred and compassionate care to people in North West Norfolk area with moderate to severe mental illness. Based at the Peddars Centre at Hellesdon Hospital in Norwich we are looking for a caring and motivated Band 5 Registered Mental Health Nurses to join us.

We are a team that prides itself on its team working and we value working together to meet the needs of service users. We work closely with psychology, psychiatry and staff from occupational health and Social Work and work hard to provide the opportunity to learn from each other.

As a band 5 nurse within the team, you would work with a defined and planned number of service users with moderate to severe mental illness who require care coordination. You would have opportunities to develop assessment skills, the direct provision of interventions and medicines management.

If you are looking for a highly functioning CMHT with caring colleagues and the opportunity to develop your career further, we'd love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

When you join us, you can expect to be supported in developing your skills and confidence in the band 5 role, there will be a minimum of two-week local induction

We fully support staff to particulate in the Trusts preceptorship program for newly registered nurses

You would have a development plan, personalised to your experience, strengths and identified development needs

We host regular reflective practice sessions, training days, clinical and management supervision.

We work Monday to Friday excluding bank Holidays

About us

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 professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops, and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Date posted

02 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,970 to £36,483 a year Gross per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

246-CEN7144026

Job locations

Peddars Centre

Hellesdon Hospital.

Norwich

NR6 5BE


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Nursing degree or equivalent RN(MH)
  • Membership qualification or willingness to undertake training

Experience

Essential

  • CPA implementation

Desirable

  • Previous experience of working with mental health needs

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to work regularly unsupervised
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills
  • Good verbal and written skills
  • Good Observation and reporting Skills
  • Ability to use own initiative
  • Ability to display common sense and ability to display calm mature response to difficult situations
  • Be self aware and have ability to learn
  • Ability to motivate others
  • Satisfactory Verbal and Written
  • England Language Skills

Desirable

  • Ability to supervise others

Knowledge

Essential

  • Understanding of issues surrounding confidentiality

Desirable

  • Awareness of security and its impact and willingness to expand knowledge on it
  • Working knowledge/application of the Mental Health Act 1993

Other

Essential

  • Ability to travel independently
  • Flexibility and adaptability
  • Fitness to undergo fitness PMA Training and perform full duties of the post
  • Ability to work as part of a team
  • Awareness and understanding equity and diversity issues
  • Flexibility of duty and hours over a 24 hour 7 day week period
  • Generally interested and motivated to work in a care environment
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Nursing degree or equivalent RN(MH)
  • Membership qualification or willingness to undertake training

Experience

Essential

  • CPA implementation

Desirable

  • Previous experience of working with mental health needs

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to work regularly unsupervised
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills
  • Good verbal and written skills
  • Good Observation and reporting Skills
  • Ability to use own initiative
  • Ability to display common sense and ability to display calm mature response to difficult situations
  • Be self aware and have ability to learn
  • Ability to motivate others
  • Satisfactory Verbal and Written
  • England Language Skills

Desirable

  • Ability to supervise others

Knowledge

Essential

  • Understanding of issues surrounding confidentiality

Desirable

  • Awareness of security and its impact and willingness to expand knowledge on it
  • Working knowledge/application of the Mental Health Act 1993

Other

Essential

  • Ability to travel independently
  • Flexibility and adaptability
  • Fitness to undergo fitness PMA Training and perform full duties of the post
  • Ability to work as part of a team
  • Awareness and understanding equity and diversity issues
  • Flexibility of duty and hours over a 24 hour 7 day week period
  • Generally interested and motivated to work in a care environment

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Peddars Centre

Hellesdon Hospital.

Norwich

NR6 5BE


Employer's website

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


Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Peddars Centre

Hellesdon Hospital.

Norwich

NR6 5BE


Employer's website

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


For questions about the job, contact:

Community Team Manager

Howard Tidman

Howard.Tidman@nsft.nhs.uk

01603421576

Date posted

02 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,970 to £36,483 a year Gross per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

246-CEN7144026

Job locations

Peddars Centre

Hellesdon Hospital.

Norwich

NR6 5BE


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