Senior Mental Health Nurse

Job overview

The Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse is a key member of the West Norfolk Community Mental Health Team (CMHT), providing specialist assessment, care planning, treatment, and care coordination for adults experiencing severe and enduring mental health difficulties. Working within a multidisciplinary team, the post holder will deliver high-quality, person-centred care that promotes recovery, supports independence, and enables individuals to achieve the best possible outcomes within their local community.

This position is open to band 6's or band 5's who have completed their preceptorship.

Main duties of the job

• Deliver high-quality, recovery-focused mental health care in line with NSFT values, Trust policies and the NMC Code.
• Undertake assessments under appropriate supervision, contribute to care planning, deliver interventions and evaluate outcomes for service users.
• Monitor mental and physical health needs, including medication management, escalating concerns where appropriate.
• Develop and manage a caseload under supervision, working collaboratively with service users, carers and partner agencies.
• Undertake risk assessments and contribute to risk management and safeguarding processes.
• Maintain accurate clinical records and contribute to effective multidisciplinary team working.
• Participate in supervision, appraisal, mandatory training and continuous professional development activities.
• Contribute to quality improvement, audit and service development initiatives.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We want you in our team if you share our values and core beliefs. If you want to work in an environment of mutual respect, transparency, integrity, and collaborative working we are the team for you.

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

If you would like an informal conversation about the role please don't hesitate to contact Mutari Yusif and Dan Manning, CTM's.

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.