# 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/c5a86e24-d308-49d0-be8f-8638928dec1a - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-mental-health-nurse/c5a86e24-d308-49d0-be8f-8638928dec1a.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:** gross per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, Compressed hours, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-15T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-01T12:01:40.219Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Norfolk/wymondham/Norfolk_Suffolk_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Nursing/Nursing-v7986008 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7986008?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nsft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview As a Community Mental Health Nurse for Adult Community South, you will be expected to... - take a clinical role in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of services for clients. - contribute and participate in multi-disciplinary team assessment. - be involved in the planning, development, delivery and evaluation of person-centred care planning and person centred formulations. - provide a first line response to referrals, providing where necessary a health and social care needs assessment or meeting the needs already identified in a health and social care needs assessment. - As lead care professional  to ensure accurate mental health clustering is carried out on admission, discharge and at reviews. ### Main duties of the job - Ensure that nursing practice is person centred and, as far as possible, promoting the direct involvement of patients and carers in the development of the plan of care from admission to discharge. - Ensure that clinical practice is consistent with the Care Programme Approach. - Identify personal learning and training needs through appraisal and personal development plans linked to service needs. - Take responsibility for ensuring that personal nursing practice is informed by relevant local and national developments and is evidenced based. - Under the direction of the Community Team Manager, participate in clinical audit and clinical governance activities. - Regularly undertake research and development and clinical trials, as necessary to own work. - Carrying out Risk Assessment Act as the lead care professional for a case-load of patients with ultimate responsibility for providing an individualized plan of care for each patient. - Delegate appropriate tasks to junior staff where appropriate. - Act as duty clinician as needed. Cover FACT function when on rota and support team with FACT function as needed. - Share information with other members of the multi-disciplinary team, either verbal or written. ### 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! Some of the benefits you can expect: - 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 Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs ## Job Details As a Community Mental Health Nurse for Adult Community South, you will be expected to... take a clinical role in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of services for clients. contribute and participate in multi-disciplinary team assessment. be involved in the planning, development, delivery and evaluation of person-centred care planning and person centred formulations. provide a first line response to referrals, providing where necessary a health and social care needs assessment or meeting the needs already identified in a health and social care needs assessment. As lead care professional to ensure accurate mental health clustering is carried out on admission, discharge and at reviews. ## Job Description Ensure that nursing practice is person centred and, as far as possible, promoting the direct involvement of patients and carers in the development of the plan of care from admission to discharge. Ensure that clinical practice is consistent with the Care Programme Approach. Identify personal learning and training needs through appraisal and personal development plans linked to service needs. Take responsibility for ensuring that personal nursing practice is informed by relevant local and national developments and is evidenced based. Under the direction of the Community Team Manager, participate in clinical audit and clinical governance activities. Regularly undertake research and development and clinical trials, as necessary to own work. Carrying out Risk Assessment Act as the lead care professional for a case-load of patients with ultimate responsibility for providing an individualized plan of care for each patient. Delegate appropriate tasks to junior staff where appropriate. Act as duty clinician as needed. Cover FACT function when on rota and support team with FACT function as needed. Share information with other members of the multi-disciplinary team, either verbal or written. ## 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! Some of the benefits you can expect: 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 Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Ability to travel independently ### Skills **Essential** - Ability to work regularly unsupervised - Good observation and reporting skills ### Knowledge **Essential** - Knowledge of medication, its management and monitoring of side effects. - Knowledge of psychosocial interventions - An understanding of the policies and guidelines both local and national e.g. National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines (Government initiative) **Desirable** - Developing knowledge of local wider systems and networks - Knowledge of health promotion ### Qualification **Essential** - Degree or Diploma in Occupational Therapy Or, Nursing degree or equivalent RN (MH) - Professional Registration **Desirable** - ENB998/Mentorship - Evidence of successful post registration academic development at degree level in related field ## Documents - [band 5 mh practitioner (pdf, 360.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10269460) - [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.