Senior Community Mental Health Nurse

Job overview

Are you a skilled and experienced mental health practitioner looking to join a passionate and dedicated team?

Our Memory Assessment Team for Care Homes (MAT-CH) works with service users to make a positive difference to their health and wellbeing. The service supports care homes across Norfolk and Waveney, focusing on dementia diagnostic assessment, care planning, and supporting care home staff to manage service users’ needs and behaviours. We believe that working closely with service users and their families or carers enables us to provide personalised care planning that meets individual needs.

The post holder will visit service users in care homes to assess their mental health needs. The role will be based at an identified NSFT site, with opportunities for hybrid working.

We are seeking individuals with experience of working within older people’s community mental health services, particularly in dementia assessment and management. The post holder will work closely with wider older people’s community mental health teams, sharing knowledge and expertise to support continuous learning and development.

Main duties of the job

The Memory Assessment Team for Care Homes (MAT-CH) is a nurse-led service that works closely with locality consultant colleagues to support complex assessments and interventions. You will become an integral part of a skilled and supportive multidisciplinary team comprising a Nurse Consultant, Service Manager, Clinical Nurse Specialist and Community Mental Health and Learning disability Nurses, supported by an experienced administrator.

The post holder will undertake comprehensive mental health and cognitive assessments for people living in care homes who present with suspected dementia, contributing to diagnostic formulation, care planning and ongoing management. They will provide specialist advice and support to social care staff, families and carers regarding person-centred care, support planning, and the non-pharmacological management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.

The role includes medication review and management, monitoring treatment effectiveness and tolerability. The post holder will work collaboratively with the wider multidisciplinary team, care home staff, families and carers to promote positive outcomes and high-quality dementia care. The post holder will actively participate in clinical audit, reflective supervision and continuing professional development to support service improvement and maintain high standards of clinical practice. The role requires regular travel across Norfolk and Waveney; therefore, a full driving licence and access to a vehicle are essential.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Individual competence and suitability will be explored within interview. It is vital that the successful candidate demonstrates values and behaviours reflective of those of our Trust and this is a focus of the interview process.

We are committed to ensuring the voice of service users is central to our work and you will be encouraged to take a full role in supporting this. We work closely alongside colleagues in wider specialist mental health services

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!

We look forward to having you as part of our dynamic team.

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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.