Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 246-CEN7276842-A
- Employer
- Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Gateway House
- Town
- Wymondham
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 gross per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Community Mental Health Practitioner
Band 5
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
We are recruiting a Mental Health Nurse to join our Team in Central Norfolk Locality, where you will be based at Gateway House.
We want to recruit practitioners who can join our trust and bring with them fresh ideas and fresh ambition.
Our Trust values of Positively, Respectfully and Together sum up perfectly what this role encompasses.
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.
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:
- Holding a caseload of non-complex service Users
- Offering holistic support and monitoring for service users and carers
- Administration of depot medication (if you are a Registered Nurse)
- Attending weekly team meetings, regular reflective practice sessions and case formulations
- Supporting the Team with their Duty and Flexible Assertive Community Treatment functions
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 and are looking forward to welcoming you!
Benefits
Benefits included with this role are:-
- 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.
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.
Detailed job description and main 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
Essential criteria
- CPA implementation
Desirable criteria
- Experience in appropriate area
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Valid registration with NMC
- Mentorship qualification or willingness to undertake mentorship training.
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel independently
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
- Jenny Ormsby
- Job title
- Community Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01953 611003
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