# Senior Mental health Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-mental-health-practitioner/966877de-8580-4204-a431-630c0478bb84 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-mental-health-practitioner/966877de-8580-4204-a431-630c0478bb84.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Norwich - **Region:** East of England - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse practitioner - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 gross per annum/ pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 33.75 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-02T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-18T13:21:34.701Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Norfolk/Bury_St_Edmunds/Norfolk_Suffolk_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Youth_mental_health/Youth_mental_health-v8019125 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8019125?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nsft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Our Children, Family & Young People Services across Suffolk are seeking dedicated Senior Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist to join their existing team. This postholder will join an experienced multi-disciplinary team working with young people aged 18-25 years of age. We have opportunities throughout our services, and want to hear from passionate individuals who share our values. We are confident that being part of CFYP Suffolk would enable you to be the Registered Mental Health Practitioner you trained, and would like, to be. Joining our team will offer you the time and facilities to make a difference. Ideally you’ll have experience and skills in working with young adults and their families. Our dedicated team is compassionate and responsive. There are processes to review our work, to develop areas of good practice, therapeutic skills and support learning and development of staff. Mental Health has never been more in the public eye and now more than ever our profession needs to adapt and change to meet the changing needs of our patients and the evolving health and social care integrated systems. As a secondary mental health workforce, we need to build upon and diversify our compassionate and inclusive leadership when delivering high quality care and diversify into new roles. If you’d like the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, intriguing role then we’d love to hear from you! ### Main duties of the job We recognise that qualified staff make up one of the largest proportion of our workforce and we value the expertise and professionalism that you will bring. Managing and assessing risk is a large part of our role and as a team we robustly make decisions in complete collaboration with all systems. As part of this team, responsibilities would include undertaking assessments of young people, working collaboratively with families and other supporting agencies to manage needs, as well as holding a caseload and undertaking duty. You can expect regular clinical and management supervision with an emphasis on reflective practice. We hold a strong belief in team and individual development, you’ll be provided with a full induction program and access to extensive training and career development. We are committed to formulation and ensuring that the pathway of the young person is based on the biosocial model of care and that the voice of the young adult is heard and validated throughout their episode of care. We are seeking a warm, compassionate and needs-led approach with our service users, their families and their network. You will partake regularly in the Duty rota and be responsible for your own clinical caseload with supervision from our MDT. ### 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! Some of the benefits you can expect: - NHS pension - a comprehensive in house & external training programmes - career progression - starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays) - staff physio service - NHS discounts and many more. Emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying. ## Job Details Our Children, Family & Young People Services across Suffolk are seeking dedicated Senior Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist to join their existing team. This postholder will join an experienced multi-disciplinary team working with young people aged 18-25 years of age. We have opportunities throughout our services, and want to hear from passionate individuals who share our values. We are confident that being part of CFYP Suffolk would enable you to be the Registered Mental Health Practitioner you trained, and would like, to be. Joining our team will offer you the time and facilities to make a difference. Ideally you’ll have experience and skills in working with young adults and their families. Our dedicated team is compassionate and responsive. There are processes to review our work, to develop areas of good practice, therapeutic skills and support learning and development of staff. Mental Health has never been more in the public eye and now more than ever our profession needs to adapt and change to meet the changing needs of our patients and the evolving health and social care integrated systems. As a secondary mental health workforce, we need to build upon and diversify our compassionate and inclusive leadership when delivering high quality care and diversify into new roles. If you’d like the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, intriguing role then we’d love to hear from you! ## Job Description We recognise that qualified staff make up one of the largest proportion of our workforce and we value the expertise and professionalism that you will bring. Managing and assessing risk is a large part of our role and as a team we robustly make decisions in complete collaboration with all systems. As part of this team, responsibilities would include undertaking assessments of young people, working collaboratively with families and other supporting agencies to manage needs, as well as holding a caseload and undertaking duty. You can expect regular clinical and management supervision with an emphasis on reflective practice. We hold a strong belief in team and individual development, you’ll be provided with a full induction program and access to extensive training and career development. We are committed to formulation and ensuring that the pathway of the young person is based on the biosocial model of care and that the voice of the young adult is heard and validated throughout their episode of care. We are seeking a warm, compassionate and needs-led approach with our service users, their families and their network. You will partake regularly in the Duty rota and be responsible for your own clinical caseload with supervision from our MDT. ## 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! Some of the benefits you can expect: NHS pension a comprehensive in house & external training programmes career progression starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays) staff physio service NHS discounts and many more. Emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Care planning and Risk assessment knowledge and skills ### 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 of managing a caseload and the provision of Mental Health Care services to people with mental health care needs ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse, Occupational Therapist OR Social Worker with the relevant professional registration - Practice Assessor and Practice Supervisor training (NMC registrants) or Practice Educator (AHP & Social Worker Registrants) ## Documents - [b6 mental health practitioner (pdf, 712.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10305411) - [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.