# Senior Mental Health Nurse > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-mental-health-nurse/f9f62d88-5e4a-493e-96a4-93a0da18bc15 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-mental-health-nurse/f9f62d88-5e4a-493e-96a4-93a0da18bc15.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Chatterton House - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **Salary:** £32073.00 to £48117.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-07T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-24T13:27:56.982Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8206090 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8206090?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nsft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Ability and willingness to travel independently to meet the needs and requirements of the service ### Skills **Essential** - Excellent communication and engagement skills - Conflict resolution and Breakaway training (or requirement to undertake within first 12 weeks) - Effective analytical and decision-making skills ### Knowledge **Essential** - The ability to use clinical assessment tools and outcome measures effectively and collaboratively - An understanding of the policies and guidelines both local and national - Up to date knowledge of legal and ethical frameworks including Mental Health Act ### Experience **Essential** - Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience - Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience - Experience in the delivery of clinical interventions ### Qualifications **Essential** - Nursing degree or equivalent – Mental Health - Practice Assessor and Practice Assessor training (NMC registrants) or Practice Educator (AHP & Social Worker Registrants) - Ongoing professional development working towards degree level (if professional registration is following a diploma level course) **Desirable** - Recognised Leadership / Management training - Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 376.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10562763) - [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.