# Mental Health Nurse *3k Welcome Bonus* > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/mental-health-nurse-3k-welcome-bonus/aae00ab6-f2c1-4a12-965d-2911f39b6f23 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/mental-health-nurse-3k-welcome-bonus/aae00ab6-f2c1-4a12-965d-2911f39b6f23.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Hellesdon Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Mental health nurse - **Salary:** £39959.00 to £48117.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent: Fixed term/secondment considered - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (Full time and part time hours) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-12T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-28T10:58:24.671Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8262161 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8262161?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nsft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are seeking a skilled and compassionate Mental Health Nurse to join our Crisis Assessment and Intensive Support Team (CAIST) within the Suffolk Crisis Service. This is a dynamic and rewarding role supporting children and young people in acute mental health distress. You will be responsible for assessing referrals, delivering direct care, and managing a caseload in collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team. The role involves work in a fast-paced environment where your clinical expertise and decision-making will have a direct impact on service users and their families. ### Main duties of the job - Undertake direct assessments and deliver care plans for children and young people in crisis. - Ensure the appropriateness of referrals and continuity of care across services. - Work collaboratively with multi-agency partners including CAMHS, social care, and education. - Provide supervision and support to junior staff and students. - Maintain accurate mental health clustering and documentation across all stages of care. - Contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The post holder will be working within a community CAMHS Crisis team, ensuring the appropriateness of referrals, undertaking direct assessment and planning and delivering direct patient care with appropriate supervision, ensuring continuity of practice and working within a multi- disciplinary and multi-agency 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 UEA students. To be responsible for accurate mental health clustering of all patients on admission, discharge and at review. To ensure all mental health clustering information is passed onto other Trust teams or services on transfer of patients. To ensure the accuracy and quality of mental health clustering activity within the team. **This post attracts a recruitment premium of £3,000 (pro-rata for part time roles). This is a one off payment with half paid on appointment and half paid after the completion of a satisfactory probation period (6 months). The premium is taxable. Please note that should you leave employment, or choose to move to an alternative post within the Trust that does not attract this recruitment premium, you will be required to reimburse all or some it, as follows: 100% of the value of the premium in the first 12 months; 50% of the value of the premium in the period 12 months to 2 years following appointment. Please note this recruitment premium is for external applicants only. Not applicable to newly qualified applicants ** **Previous Applicants Need Not Apply ** ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Others **Essential** - Be able and willing to undertake further training / development specific to the role. ### Skills **Essential** - Able to demonstrate the ability to process, plan and delegate work **Desirable** - Able to time manage and reflect on clinical practice ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team - Familiar with risk assessment and its management ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered Mental Health Nurse with the relevant professional registration - Practice Supervisor / Practice Assessor training (in line with NMC Standards for Student Supervision and Assessment 2018) ## Documents - [band 6 community nurse (pdf, 376.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10576118) - [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.