Community Mental Health Nurse

NHS; Lowestoft; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A health service provider in England is seeking a dedicated Mental Health Nurse for their team in Lowestoft. The ideal candidate will provide compassionate care, support medication management, and collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team. They will enjoy extensive training opportunities and an initial annual leave of 27 days, increasing with service. This role offers a salary ranging from £31,049 to £37,796 gross per annum.

Benefits

Comprehensive in-house and external training programmes

Career progression

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in CPA implementation.
• Experience in appropriate area.

Responsibilities

• Offer holistic support and monitoring for service users and carers.
• Support administration and monitoring of medication.
• Attend weekly team meetings and regular reflective practice sessions.

Skills

Compassion

Empathy

Ability to work in a team

Education

Valid registration with NMC

Mentorship qualification or willingness to undertake mentorship training

Job description

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 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 included with this role are:-

• 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)
• 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.

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!

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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

• CPA implementation
• Experience in appropriate area

Qualifications

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

Other

• 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.

£31,049 to £37,796 a yeargross per annum