# Community Mental Health Nurse > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-mental-health-nurse/9457e43d-da60-4353-a48a-2128fc343cb3 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-mental-health-nurse/9457e43d-da60-4353-a48a-2128fc343cb3.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Norwich - **Region:** East of England - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse (community and district) - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 Gross per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 9am -5pm (office hours)) - **Closing date:** 2026-06-09T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-27T07:51:41.901Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Norfolk/Norwich/Norfolk_Suffolk_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Community_Mental_Health/Community_Mental_Health-v8004251 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8004251?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nsft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Norwich City Community Mental Health Team's provides patient centred and compassionate care to people in with moderate to severe mental illness. Based at the Julian Hospital in Norwich we are looking for 2 caring and motivated Band 5 Registered Mental Health Nurses to join us. We are a team that prides itself on its team working and we value working together to meet the needs of service users. We work closely with psychology, psychiatry and staff from occupational health and Social Work and work hard to provide the opportunity to learn from each other. As a band 5 nurse within the team, you would work with a defined and planned number of service users with moderate to severe mental illness who require care coordination. You would have opportunities to develop assessment skills, the direct provision of interventions and medicines management. If you are looking for a highly functioning CMHT with caring colleagues and the opportunity to develop your career further, we’d love to hear from you! ### Main duties of the job When you join us, you can expect to be supported in developing your skills and confidence in the band 5 role, there will be a minimum of two-week local induction We fully support staff to particulate in the Trusts preceptorship program for newly registered nurses You would have a development plan, personalised to your experience, strengths and identified development needs We host regular reflective practice sessions, training days, clinical and management supervision. We work Monday to Friday excluding bank Holidays ### 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! Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs Interview dates are yet to be set; 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 ## Job Details The Norwich City Community Mental Health Team's provides patient centred and compassionate care to people in with moderate to severe mental illness. Based at the Julian Hospital in Norwich we are looking for 2 caring and motivated Band 5 Registered Mental Health Nurses to join us. We are a team that prides itself on its team working and we value working together to meet the needs of service users. We work closely with psychology, psychiatry and staff from occupational health and Social Work and work hard to provide the opportunity to learn from each other. As a band 5 nurse within the team, you would work with a defined and planned number of service users with moderate to severe mental illness who require care coordination. You would have opportunities to develop assessment skills, the direct provision of interventions and medicines management. If you are looking for a highly functioning CMHT with caring colleagues and the opportunity to develop your career further, we’d love to hear from you! ## Job Description When you join us, you can expect to be supported in developing your skills and confidence in the band 5 role, there will be a minimum of two-week local induction We fully support staff to particulate in the Trusts preceptorship program for newly registered nurses You would have a development plan, personalised to your experience, strengths and identified development needs We host regular reflective practice sessions, training days, clinical and management supervision. We work Monday to Friday excluding bank Holidays ## 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! Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs Interview dates are yet to be set; 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 ### Other **Essential** - Ability to travel independently - Flexibility and adaptability - Fitness to undergo fitness PMA Training and perform full duties of the post - Awareness and understanding equity and diversity issues - Flexibility of duty and hours over a 24 hour 7 day week period ### Skills **Essential** - Ability to work regularly unsupervised - Good interpersonal and communication skills - Good verbal and written skills - Good Observation and reporting Skills - Ability to display common sense and ability to display calm mature response to difficult situations - England Language Skills **Desirable** - Ability to supervise others ### Knowledge **Essential** - Understanding of issues surrounding confidentiality **Desirable** - Awareness of security and its impact and willingness to expand knowledge on it - Working knowledge/application of the Mental Health Act 1993 ### Experience **Desirable** - Previous experience of working with mental health needs ### Qualifications **Essential** - Nursing degree or equivalent RN(MH) - Membership qualification or willingness to undertake training ## Documents - [city 1 (pdf, 16.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10289452) - [job description (pdf, 2.4mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10289451) - [reasonable adjustments - nsft (pdf, 197.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2863) - [values based recruitment – candidates guide (pdf, 360.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1028) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.