Senior Mental Health Nurse Open Day- Suffolk

Job summary

Band 6 Registered Mental Health Nurse - Crisis Under 18s (CAIST)West Suffolk | Open Recruitment Day - 25th FebruaryNorfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

Are you an experienced RMN passionate about supporting children and young people in mental health crisis? We are recruiting Band 6 Mental Health Nurses to join our Crisis Assessment and Intensive Support Team (CAIST) within the Suffolk Crisis Service.

This is a dynamic and highly rewarding role where your clinical judgement, compassion, and leadership will make an immediate difference to young people and their families during periods of acute distress.

We are hosting a dedicated recruitment open day on 25th February for shortlisted candidates.

Candidates successful at shortlisting will be invited to attend a morning or afternoon session on 25th February. Each session includes:

• Group discussion around a clinical crisis scenario

• Formal interview

• Opportunity to meet the team and leadership

Main duties of the job

You will work in a fast-paced crisis service delivering urgent mental health assessment and intensive support to children and young people. You will manage a caseload, complete risk and needs assessments, and coordinate care alongside a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency network.

Key responsibilities include:

• Undertaking crisis assessments and delivering care plans
• Ensuring safe referral pathways and continuity of care
• Working closely with CAMHS, social care, education, and partner agencies
• Providing supervision and support to junior staff and students
• Maintaining accurate documentation and mental health clustering
• Contributing to service development and quality improvement

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 nursing 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 are close to 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.

We can accommodate some flexible working in line with the service need.

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 physiotherapy service

*gym membership

*NHS discounts and many more

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Haymills House

Hardwick Lane

Stowmarket

IP14 1RF

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

Haymills House

Hardwick Lane

Stowmarket

IP14 1RF

Employer's website

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

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