Senior Community Mental Health Nurse

Transformationunitgm; Norwich; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Norwich is seeking a Senior Community Mental Health Nurse to join their innovative team. This role focuses on supporting individuals with severe mental illnesses through effective rehabilitation and recovery strategies, while promoting inclusive and high-quality clinical care.

Benefits

Comprehensive in-house & external training programmes

Career progression opportunities

Starting annual leave of 27 days, increasing to 33 days

NHS discounts and benefits

Qualifications

• Experience working in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience with complex mental health needs.
• Ability to work unsupervised.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of service users and develop treatment plans.
• Collaborate within a multi-disciplinary team for patient outcomes.
• Provide high-quality clinical care and support recovery goals.

Skills

Good interpersonal and communication skills

Analytical and decision-making skills

Care planning and risk assessment knowledge

Education

Nursing degree or equivalent RN(MH)

Mentorship qualification or willingness to undertake training

Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical/therapeutic practice

Job description

Employer Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site The Conifers, Hellesden Hospital Town Norwich Salary £38,682 - £46,580 gross per annum - pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 10/07/2025 23:59

Senior Community Mental Health Nurse

Band 6

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.

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

Please note, NSFT uses tools to screen any applications generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Job overview

Our innovative and award-winning Rehabilitation in Complex Psychosis Community Mental Health Service seeks a creative and flexible Senior Mental Health Nurse to join our team. The Rehabilitation in Complex Psychosis Team, based in Norwich, supports service users with complex and enduring severe mental illness in the Central Norfolk Locality. As a team we are passionate about creative engagement, and empowering service users with complex needs to achieve their Recovery goals.

The team is a pioneering multi-agency project, and along with NSFT colleagues (nursing, OT, psychology,psychiatryand pharmacy), we havefully integratedsubstance misuse support from CGL, social workers from Norfolk County Council,andrecovery and peer support workers from Together.As a caseload holding team, we provide rehabilitation support when and where a person needs it – in the community, in supported accommodation, or in-reaching to inpatient settings.

The successful candidate will be required to work with a caseload of service users and work collaboratively towards rehabilitation goals. This could mean working with people in their own homes, residential care and supported living settings as well as, on occasion, in-reaching to people who are in a mental health hospital bed.

Main duties of the job

The ideal candidate will have an interest in working within a busy and dynamic Community Mental Health Service. This is a clinically focussed post with emphasis on ensuring high quality clinical care provision and outcomes.

You will take a recovery focused approach to enable service users to live well and access their wider community. Service users will remain at the centre of the team's approach and they will support people who are eligible for the service wherever they are residing in the local area.

You will be expected to act as a source of advice and guidance to others in the team aligned with your your scope of practice. You can expect to act as a keyworker for a small number of service users (limited to 10-15) but will work with any service user who can benefit from your skills and experience. Successful candidates can expect to spend the vast majority of their working week in face to face contact with service users, making use of their specialist clinical skills.

Working for our organisation

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

Detailed job description and main 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.

We will expect the post holder to work collaboratively and flexibly with others to undertake assessments, develop and share psychological formulations and develop treatment plans.

You will be responsible for managing a caseload, assessing and planning treatment for your patients. 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

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!

Person Specification

Qualifications

Nursing degree or equivalent RN(MH)

Mentorship qualification or willingness to undertake training

Evidence at social care / health related study

Experience

Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team

Familiar with risk assessment and its management

Previous experience of working with people with complex mental health needs

Skills / Knowledge

Ability to work regularly unsupervised

Good interpersonal and communication skills

Good observation and reporting skills

Ability to supervise others

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.

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Person specification

Experience

• Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
• Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience
• Experience working in the specific area

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse, Occupational Therapist OR Social Worker with the relevant professional registration
• Practice Assessor and Practice Supervisor training (NMC registrants) or Practice Educator (AHP & Social Worker Registrants)
• Ongoing professional development working towards degree level ( if professional registration is following a diploma level course)
• Recognised Leadership/Management training
• Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice

Other

• Ability to travel independently

Skills

• Effective analytical and decision-making skills
• Care planning and Risk assessment knowledge and skills
• Able to time manage and reflect on clinical practice

YOUR APPLICATION

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EQUAL OPPORTUNITIESApart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification).. We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post may be 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.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.