Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 246-WSU7659299
- Employer
- Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Stowmarket
- Town
- Suffolk
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 pa/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
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
Job overview
We are seeking a skilled and compassionate Mental Health Nurse to join our Crisis Assessment and Intensive Support Team (CAIST) within the Suffolk Crisis Service. This is a dynamic and rewarding role supporting children and young people in acute mental health distress.
You will be responsible for assessing referrals, delivering direct care, and managing a caseload in collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team. The role involves work in a fast-paced environment where your clinical expertise and decision-making will have a direct impact on service users and their families.
Main duties of the job
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Undertake direct assessments and deliver care plans for children and young people in crisis.
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Ensure the appropriateness of referrals and continuity of care across services.
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Work collaboratively with multi-agency partners including CAMHS, social care, and education.
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Provide supervision and support to junior staff and students.
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Maintain accurate mental health clustering and documentation across all stages of care.
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Contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives.
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 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 professional 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be working within a community CAMHS Crisis team, ensuring the appropriateness of referrals, undertaking direct assessment and planning and delivering direct patient care with appropriate supervision, ensuring continuity of practice and working within a multi- disciplinary and multi-agency environment.
Managing a caseload and the provision of Mental Health Care services to people with mental health care needs.
Support and advising to other health care professionals. To support aspects of service development.
Provide an appropriate learning environment for relevant UEA students.
To be responsible for accurate mental health clustering of all patients on admission, discharge and at review.
To ensure all mental health clustering information is passed onto other Trust teams or services on transfer of patients.
To ensure the accuracy and quality of mental health clustering activity within the team
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse, Occupational Therapist OR Social Worker with the relevant professional registration
Desirable criteria
- Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience working within a crisis setting
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication and engagement skills Conflict resolution and Breakaway training (or requirement to undertake within first 12 weeks)
Desirable criteria
- Prevention and Management of Suicide training
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice within a child and adolescent population from previous experience
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Terence Mahachi
- Job title
- Associate Director of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
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