Senior Community Mental Health Nurse

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust; Norwich; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust in Norwich is seeking a Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse to join a busy city CMHT. You will be registered, with a nursing degree, and work within a multidisciplinary team delivering community interventions and care planning.

The role focuses on high-quality patient care, risk assessment, and close MDT collaboration with primary care networks, ensuring evidence-based practice and patient-centred care in a busy community setting.

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse with the relevant professional registration.
• Nursing degree or equivalent Mentoring / Mentorship (ENB988 or equivalent)
• Evidence at social care / health related study

Responsibilities

• Provide planned care/risk assessment / screening for patients within their care plan and ongoing evaluation of patients' needs and identify suitability for potential discharge in conjunction with the MDT and via caseload management/supervision.
• Initiate and attend patient centred reviews, case conferences and other meetings as required.
• To advise the Responsible Clinician(s) and/or health and social care professional of any change in the patients' conditions and / or circumstances.
• To work within the MDT and to form working partnerships with other care providers.
• To ensure service users/carer(s) are enabled and empowered to make informed decisions about their care and delivery of that care, working with agencies from within and outside the MDT.

Skills

Registered Nurse registration

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Risk assessment

Education

Nursing degree or equivalent

Mentoring / Mentorship (ENB988 or equivalent)

Social care/health study evidence

Job description

We currently have opportunities within our City CMHT's for x2Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse's. The post's are open to applications from Registered Mental Health Nurses. The team is based in central Norwich and covers central based Gp practices. We are a recovery focussed, multi-disciplinary team providing an effective, supportive, and professional service for our Services users and Carers.

You will be a qualified professional with experience of supporting people and their families, preferably in the community. You will demonstrate a strong understanding of your role and join our dedicated multidisciplinary team working closely with a range of partners to provide appropriate community interventions for those individuals referred to the team.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge, and experience.

Every individual makes a valuable contribution in the team. We are proud of our staff, and we are looking for people to join us in continuing to develop what the service of Norwich CMHT looks like.

You will enjoy plenty of opportunities for joint working, training, and a sound supervision structure.

Main duties of the job

The ideal candidate will have an interest in working within a busy and dynamic Community Mental Health Service. The post holders will undertake duties as part of the city teams Duty service while ensuring continuity of practice and working within a MDT/multi-agency environment.

• Provide planned care/risk assessment / screening for patients within their care plan and ongoing evaluation of patients' needs and identify suitability for potential discharge in conjunction with the MDT and via caseload management/supervision.
• Initiate and attend patient centred reviews, case conferences and other meetings as required.
• To advise the Responsible Clinician(s) and/or health and social care professional of any change in the patients' conditions and / or circumstances.
• To work within the MDT and to form working partnerships with other care providers.
• To ensure service users/carer(s) are enabled and empowered to make informed decisions about their care and delivery of that care, working with agencies from within and outside the MDT.

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.

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.

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

Job responsibilities

Within this role you will work with an established and supportive MDT. As with many services we currently use a blended model of virtual and face-to-face working which provides opportunities for flexibility. You will have knowledge, skills and experience of working across the range of complexity and severity in adult mental health. Working with the patient to plan care and optimise treatment plans. Feeding back to the MDT and working within the team for the best outcome for the patient

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse with the relevant professional registration
• Nursing degree or equivalent Mentoring / Mentorship (ENB988 or equivalent)
• Evidence at social care / health related study

Other

• Ability to travel independently

Knowledge

• Up to date and evidence-based knowledge of Person Centred Care
• Working knowledge / application of the Mental Health Act
• Knowledge of mental health needs for older people.

Skills

• Able to demonstrate the ability to process, plan and delegate work
• Ability to identify and action change in health care need
• Able to time manage and reflect on clinical practice

Experience

• Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
• Familiar with risk assessment and its management
• Previous community experience

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.

£39,959 to £48,117 a yeargross per annum