Mental Health Nurse

Job summary
We are recruiting a Mental Health Practitioner to join our Community Team in Great Yarmouth.

We want to recruit Practitioners who can join our trust and established Community Team; bringing with them fresh ideas and fresh ambition. We would welcome applications from newly qualified Practitioners and will support them through their preceptorship process and future development within the team.

Our Trust values of Positively, Respectfully and Together sum up perfectly what this role encompasses.

You will need to be enthusiastic and conscientious and do everything you can to provide the best care to our service users.We are looking for someone who displays compassion, empathy and sensitivity in your approach to people who may be distressed or have a challenging manner.

In return we offer a supportive multi-disciplinary team environment where you will be encouraged to develop your own knowledge of psychosocial interventions and positive health promotion, with first-hand experience of engaging service users.

If you're a Occupational therapist or Nurse - we would love to talk to you about how your skills can be utilised within our team!

Main duties of the job
Our primary focus is on collaborative working; placing great emphasis on recovery.

Many aspects relating to service user recovery is reflected within the assessment tools the patients and staff use and the philosophy that underpins patient centred care.

Main duties of this role include:

• Holding a caseload of non-complex service Users
• Offering holistic support and monitoring for service users and carers
• Administration of depot medication (if you are a Registered Nurse)
• Attending weekly team meetings, regular reflective practice sessions and case formulations

About us
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other and are looking forward to welcoming you!

Benefits
Benefits included with this role are:-

• 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.

We are working hard to maintain usual recruitment process however please be aware that we may ask you to be interviewed via MS Teams rather than in person. Please also bear with us as we endeavour to recruit as many people as we can in unprecedented times.

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!

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Valid registration with NMC or Professional Registration with Health Care Professionals Council
• Mentorship qualification or willingness to undertake mentorship training.

Other
Essential

• Ability to travel independently

Experience
Essential

• CPA implementation

Desirable

• Experience in appropriate area
• Has worked within an MDT setting

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
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).

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

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).

Employer details
Employer name: Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust
Address: Northgate Hospital, Northgate Street, Great Yarmouth, NR30 1BU, United Kingdom
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Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Deputy Community Team Manager
Mark Nicholls
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Details
Date posted: 07 September 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 5
Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year gross per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 246-GYW8231282
Job locations: Northgate Hospital, Northgate Street, Great Yarmouth, NR30 1BU, United Kingdom

Supporting documents
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