Senior Community Mental Health Nurse

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Main area Crisis Mental Health Assessments Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent:
The scope is to include weekends and nights Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job
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Site Abberton Day Hospital, The Lakes MHU Town Colchester Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 28/10/2026 23:59

Our Trust cares for more than 100,000 patients at any one time across our community health, mental health and learning disability services across Essex and parts of Bedfordshire and Suffolk.

We want you to be part of our journey of transformation, where our patients and their families are at the heart of everything we do and to achieve our vision to be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care.

You’ll be part of a Trust where you will be supported to be your authentic self and be the best you can be, where we will help you to grow, develop and thrive.

The Trust is recognised by the University of Essex and is a top provider of apprenticeships for people looking to be an assistant practitioner, senior health care support worker (CAP). Our trailblazing CAP apprenticeship won a national HSJ Award.

We are also recognised as a Veteran Aware Trust and holder of gold accreditation from the Ministry of Defence Employment Recognition Scheme. Our services are highlighted as an exemplar of good practice, producing the best care for more than 3.500 armed forces veterans in the past seven years.

We have been shortlisted and won national awards. We are an inclusive organisation and Level 3 Disability Confident Leader Trust.

We are constantly innovating and looking for new ways to deliver care, such as using technology to enhance patient care and working with partners to launch new services such as the Basildon Mental Health Urgent Care Department, virtual hospitals and falls response cars.

Join us and you’ll do the best work of your life – and make a difference to other people’s lives. What we do together, matters.

You will work as a Band 6 Senior Community Nurse with the Crisis Response Team in providing high quality, evidence-based, holistic assessments to patients in line with your NMC professional code of conduct and Trust policies. You will assess, plan, implement and evaluate packages of care based upon individual service user needs, under the guidance of the Team Leader as per NICE guidance.

The team works closely with the 2 other teams which form the Urgent Care Pathway – Hospital Liaison and Home First - to respond to urgent and emergency mental health crisis. Assessments can be completed within the community and ability to drive is essential. The Team have use of a lease car. The team also covers the 111 Option 2 telephone contact service and a part of your role will be to take calls from service users contacting this service.
As required by your manager, you will have responsibility for the day to day co-ordination of the shifts within the Crisis Response Team.
You will be expected to work collaboratively with key partner organisations, service users, carers, clinicians and other practitioners within the multi-disciplinary team in delivering services; providing a 7-day a week, 24-hours a day service for 365 days a year working shifts where appropriate and operationally required.
Shifts are 11.5 hours with an hour break time. Ability to work some night shifts is essential.

Please note that this role outline serves to provide an illustrative example of the duties…