Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Clinical Nurse Specialist

The closing date is 13 April 2026

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Job summary

Are you a compassionate, dedicated and motivated Leader who always puts people at the heart of everything you do?

Are you a professional who enjoys working as part of a 'can do', innovative and forward-thinking team as well as embracing the challenge of working autonomously?

The EIP Great Yarmouth and Waveney team are currently able to offer an exciting opportunity to join our highly skilled and experienced team, based at the Resource Centre on the Northgate Hospital site in Great Yarmouth, delivering bespoke and timely interventions to our service users, aged 14 - 65 years, and their families.

We are looking to recruit aClinical Nurse Specialist with a Non-Medical Prescribing qualification who has an excellent working knowledge and experience of community mental health working. You will have prior experience of team clinical leadership / management and you will have a keen and driven interest and knowledge base in Early Intervention in Psychosis.

You will be committed to ongoing service and clinical development inclusive of service user / carer involvement which will be paramount to ensure the sustained delivery of our Service Operational Policy developed in line with National Clinical Institute of Excellence Quality Standards for EIP.

Main duties of the job

As an advanced practitioner with EIP Norfolk you will offer senior clinical contribution and supervision to specialist team assessment, formulation, treatment and care review governed under CPA .

Extensive experience of working alongside service users and families with complex health and social care difficulties within the community would be essential as would prior experience of working with psychosis.

Your Clinical Nurse Specialist role will include Non-Medical Prescribing to the Great Yarmouth and Waveney Norfolk caseload as appropriate and under supervision of the team's consultant. NMP qualification would be an essential criterion for this post.

You will be working alongside a dedicated group of professionals who hold the service user, family, carers and social recovery at the centre of all that we deliver.

We are confident that being part of our service would enable you to be the practitioner you trained, and would like, to be. This role will offer you the time and facilities to make a difference, whilst contributing to and benefitting from the much wider Trust NMP network across Norfolk and Suffolk.

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'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.

Details

Date posted

30 March 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

Depending on experience gross per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

246-WSN7893688

Job locations

Northgate Hospital

Northgate Street

Great Yarmouth

NR30 1BU


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description 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!

Some of the benefits you can expect:

  • 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

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.

Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description 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!

Some of the benefits you can expect:

  • 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

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.

Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • RMN or equivalent professional qualification
  • Non-Medical Independent Prescriber (qualified or course completed awaiting results)

Experience

Essential

  • Extensive experience at which has required supervision and mentorship of others.
  • Extensive experience of practice within clinical area with proven track record in delivering high quality care

Desirable

  • Experience of working with people with psychosis
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • RMN or equivalent professional qualification
  • Non-Medical Independent Prescriber (qualified or course completed awaiting results)

Experience

Essential

  • Extensive experience at which has required supervision and mentorship of others.
  • Extensive experience of practice within clinical area with proven track record in delivering high quality care

Desirable

  • Experience of working with people with psychosis

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

Northgate Hospital

Northgate Street

Great Yarmouth

NR30 1BU


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

Northgate Hospital

Northgate Street

Great Yarmouth

NR30 1BU


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 Matron

Kim Wilkinson

kim.wilkinson@nsft.nhs.uk

01603671901

Details

Date posted

30 March 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

Depending on experience gross per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

246-WSN7893688

Job locations

Northgate Hospital

Northgate Street

Great Yarmouth

NR30 1BU


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