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Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Community Mental Health Nurse

The closing date is 07 Rhagfyr 2025

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Job summary

We are recruiting a Mental Health Nurse to join our Team in Great Yarmouth and Waveney Locality, where you will be based at Carlton Court Hospital .

We want to recruit practitioners who can join our Trust and bring with them fresh ideas and fresh ambition.

Our Trust Talk values are we are a team, we are accountable, we learn and improve and we are kind this is the expectation for high quality delivery of care and buidling strong relationships with the team.

You will need to be enthusiastic and conscientious and do everything you can to provide the best care to our service users.We are looking for someone who displays compassion, empathy and sensitivity in your approach to people who may be distressed or have a challenging manner.

In return we offer a supportive multi-disciplinary team environment where you will be encouraged to develop your own knowledge of psychosocial interventions and positive health promotion, with first-hand experience of engaging service users. We are a crisis led service and team hold cases which involves daily safety planning and reviewing and evaluating case delivery following trust and national policies.

Main duties of the job

Our primary focus is on collaborative working; placing great emphasis on the assessment/recovery model. Many aspects relating to service user recovery is reflected within the assessment tools the patients and staff use and the philosophy that underpins patient centered care.

Main duties of this role include:

  • Working
  • Offering holistic support and monitoring for service users and carers
  • Supporting administration and monitoring of medication
  • Attending weekly team meetings, regular reflective practice sessions and case formulations, team away days
  • Supporting the nurse in charge and team members with service delivery

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other and are looking forward to welcoming you!

Benefits

Benefits included with this role are:-

  • NHS pension
  • a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
  • career progression
  • starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
  • staff physio service
  • NHS discounts and many more.

We are working hard to maintain usual recruitment process however please be aware that we may ask you to be interviewed via MS Teams rather than in person. Please also bear with us as we endeavour to recruit as many people as we can in unprecedented times.

Details

Date posted

21 Tachwedd 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£31,049 to £37,796 a year gross per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

246-GYW7597422-A

Job locations

Carlton Court Hospital

1 St Peters Road

Carlton Colville, Lowestoft

NR33 8AG


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

Interviews are to be held on 14th August 2025, however subject to change, candidates may only be given a minimum of 3 days notice, please note this date is provisional and may be subject to change. 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

Interviews are to be held on 14th August 2025, however subject to change, candidates may only be given a minimum of 3 days notice, please note this date is provisional and may be subject to change. 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

Experience

Essential

  • CPA implementation

Desirable

  • Experience in appropriate area

Qualifications

Essential

  • Valid registration with NMC
  • Mentorship qualification or willingness to undertake mentorship training.

Other

Essential

  • Ability to travel independently
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • CPA implementation

Desirable

  • Experience in appropriate area

Qualifications

Essential

  • Valid registration with NMC
  • Mentorship qualification or willingness to undertake mentorship training.

Other

Essential

  • Ability to travel independently

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

Carlton Court Hospital

1 St Peters Road

Carlton Colville, Lowestoft

NR33 8AG


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

Carlton Court Hospital

1 St Peters Road

Carlton Colville, Lowestoft

NR33 8AG


Employer's website

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

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Community Team Manager

Alison Carter

alison.carter@nsft.nhs.uk

01502527539

Details

Date posted

21 Tachwedd 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£31,049 to £37,796 a year gross per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

246-GYW7597422-A

Job locations

Carlton Court Hospital

1 St Peters Road

Carlton Colville, Lowestoft

NR33 8AG


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