Main area Community Mental Health for Older Adults Grade Band 6 Contract 12 months (Fixed term or secondment) Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
15 hours per week (Monday-Friday, 09:00-17:00) Job ref 246-GYW8264627
Site The Willow Centre Town Great Yarmouth Salary £39,959 – £48,117 gross per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 28/09/2026 23:59
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 due to the nature of our roles and patient demographic, you will be required to undertake physical intervention training and remain trained, as required by your role.
Job overview
Join Our Dynamic Team as a Community Mental Health Nurse!
Are you passionate about making a real difference in people’s lives? Do you thrive in a collaborative, multi-disciplinary, and multi-agency environment? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!
Key Responsibilities:
- Caseload Management: Take charge of managing a caseload, delivering high-quality mental health care services, and offering valuable support and advice to other healthcare professionals.
- Service Development: Contribute to the growth and enhancement of our mental health services, ensuring we remain at the forefront of best practices and innovation.
- Education and Mentorship: Create an enriching learning environment for University of East Anglia (UEA) students, guiding the next generation of mental health professionals.
- Documentation & Quality Assurance: Be responsible for the precise clinical documents of patients during admission, discharge, and review, ensuring seamless communication and information transfer across Trust teams and services when appropriate and necessary.
Main duties of the job
About the Role: As a Community Mental Health Nurse, you will play a pivotal role in the planning and delivery of direct patient care. You will work closely with a supportive team to ensure continuity of practice, providing essential mental health care services to individuals in need.
The post holder will undertake the planning and delivery of direct patient care with appropriate supervision, ensuring continuity of practice and working within a multi-disciplinary and multiagency 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 University students.
- To be responsible for accurate mental health documents of all patients on admission, discharge and at review.
- Have an excellent knowledge of mental health conditions, relevant medications and treatment.
- Have experience or an understanding of working with people who have dementia.
- demonstrate ability to produce excellent highly detailed, assessments and risk management plans
This is an exciting opportunity to relocate and work 9-5 hrs between Monday to Friday.
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.
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.
Working in Norfolk: Working in Norfolk, UK, offers a unique blend of professional and lifestyle benefits. Enjoy a high quality of life with stunning countryside, picturesque coast
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