Senior Community LD/Mental Health Nurse

Job summary
We are looking for an experienced and motivated Band 6 Senior Community Learning Disability/Mental Health Nurse to join our Community Learning Disability and Autism.

This is an excellent opportunity for a registered nurse seeking to develop their clinical leadership skills while delivering high-quality, person-centred care to individuals with complex learning disability and mental health needs.

The successful candidate will provide specialist assessments, care coordination, risk management, and evidence-based interventions, working closely with service users, families, carers, and partner agencies. They will also support junior staff through supervision and contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives.

We welcome applications from nurses with experience in learning disability, mental health, community, or inpatient settings. Candidates should demonstrate strong clinical skills, sound professional judgement, excellent communication abilities, and a commitment to improving outcomes for people with complex needs.

In return, we offer a supportive team environment, regular supervision, professional development opportunities, and a clear pathway for career progression within a developing community service.

Main duties of the job
As a Band 6 Senior Community Learning Disability/Mental Health Nurse, you will provide specialist assessment, care coordination, risk management, and therapeutic interventions for individuals with complex learning disability and mental health needs within the community.

We are committed to supporting your professional development through leadership programmes, clinical supervision, mentorship, and opportunities to undertake recognised qualifications and specialist training.

This is a rewarding but sometimes challenging role, requiring compassion, resilience, and a proactive approach to supporting service users, carers, and families. The successful candidate will demonstrate an understanding of person-centred care, safeguarding, positive risk management, and the importance of working collaboratively across health, social care, and partner agencies.

You will provide clinical leadership within the multidisciplinary team, support and supervise junior colleagues, contribute to service improvement initiatives, and promote high standards of care, safety, and clinical governance.

If you are passionate about improving outcomes for people with learning disabilities and mental health needs, possess strong clinical and communication skills, and are committed to delivering excellent care, we would welcome your application.

About us
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Job 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.

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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Mental Health Nurse with the relevant professional registration
• Practice Assessor and Practice Supervisor training (NMC registrants) or Practice Educator (AHP & Social Worker Registrants)

Experience
Essential

• Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
• Familiar with risk assessment and its management

Desirable

• Previous community experience

Other
Essential

• Able to travel independently

Skills
Essential

• Able to demonstrate the ability to process, plan and delegate work

Desirable

• Able to time manage and reflect on clinical practice

Knowledge
Essential

• Up to date and evidence-based knowledge of Person Centred Care

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).