Main area Mental Health Practitioner Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (This role covers a 24/7 period, 365 days a year including long days, twilights and nights) Job ref 246-CEN8312327
Site Hellesdon Hospital Town Norwich Salary £39,959 – £48,117 gross per annum (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 18/10/2026 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 Mental Health Nurse!
The Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team based at Hellesdon Hospital; Norwich are seeking ambitious Senior Registered Mental Health Nurses to join our existing team.
Our diverse team ranging from assistant practitioners, a hands-on service manager, physician associates, advanced nurse practitioners and more, can offer you the opportunity to develop your skillset, working alongside and learning from senior clinicians in a varied nursing role.
We’re proactive and highly skilled at managing risk and supporting service users in Norwich, South, North and Central Norfolk who are presenting in crisis. We’re passionate about providing alternative to hospital admissions, so you can expect to be undertaking rewarding, intensive work.
As a senior nurse within the team, you can expect a range of responsibilities including shift coordinator, triaging, assessments, working in home treatment within a community setting, without solely holding a caseload.
We split the team geographically and take equal responsibility for caseloads, so you will not hold one independently. Whether you have experience gained from an acute or community setting previously, it is important you recognise acute presentation and have a good understanding of the local mental health system.
If you enjoy working with high-risk cases, are looking to develop as an autonomous, confident practitioner, then we’d love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
When you join us, you can expect to be supported in building your competence in assessment, there will be a minimum of two-week local induction and a core competency framework to work with, to support you to develop your assessment skills, using evidence-based practice.
We host regular reflective practice sessions, training days and wellbeing workshops, as well as clinical and management supervision. CRHT are quality improvement focussed and have regular interfaces with a range of teams, both internally and externally, including a focus on outreach with primary care.
The shift pattern is long days, 3 per week, including night and weekend cover, with 4 days off, we can offer the opportunity to rotate if this is something of particular interest. The service operates 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year.
Working for our organisation
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.
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits and in addition:
- Up to 307 hours holiday entitlement (subject to length of service)
- FREE Yoga and Pilates
- Cycle scheme tax-free bikes and accessories
- Support with revalidation
- We will pay for your initial DBS check (excluding the annual update service charge of £13)
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,
Please visit our website to hear from some of our current nurses on why they work here and on some of our services. You can also visit our Facebook page Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs
Please contact Marie Ikewun (marie.ikewun@nsft.nhs.uk) for any additional information you would like to know about this post.
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 Restraints) or Practice Educator (AHP & Social Worker Restraints)
- Ongoing professional development working towards degree level ( if professional registration is following a diploma level course)
- Higher degree or postgraduate in clinical area / therapeutic practice
- Recognised Leadership/Management training
Experience
- Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
- Experience in working in team delivering person centred treatment packages
- Experience of working in the specific area
Skills
- Conflict resolution and Breakaway training (or requirement to undertake within first 12 weeks)
- Care planning and Risk Assessment knowledge and skills
- Prevention and Management of Suicide training
Knowledge
- The ability to use clinical assessment tools and outcome measures effectively and collaboratively
- Have the ability to discuss, identify and elevate safeguarding issues in a sensitive way to protect those who are vulnerable
- Knowledge of health promotion
Other
- Ability and willingness to travel independently to meet the needs and requirements of the service
Please be aware that, due to the high number of applications for certain roles, this vacancy may close earlier than the advertised closing date. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.
YOUR APPLICATION
We can provide all our job application materials in alternative formats so that these are accessible to everyone. Should you require any documents within this job pack in an alternative format, please do not hesitate to contact us at recruitment@nsft.nhs.uk.
PLEASE NOTE: If you use a hotmail, msn or yahoo e-mail account, you will need to check your “junk” mail regularly as these email providers will divert any communication from this Trust/NHS JOBS straight into your ” junk” inbox.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Apart 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.
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