Community Mental Health Nurse

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

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 qualified mental health 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. We also have an opportunity for a defined depot and physical health nursing role overseeing the day to day running of our community teams depot clinic.

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!

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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.