Senior Community Mental Health Nurse; Older Persons

Main area Community Mental Health for Older Adults Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Job share
• Flexible working

Site Gateway House (Wymondham) Town Wymondham Salary £39,959 - £48,117 gross per annum (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 25/10/2026 23:59

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.

Please note due to the nature of our roles and patient demographic, you will be required to undertake physical intervention training and remain trained, as required by your role.

Community Mental health Team in Central Norfolk

Come and join a great team who care about service users and each other.

Working with people with moderate to severe mental illness who require specialist secondary care services as well as people with dementia and comorbid mental illness.. The team provides a comprehensive service and works with a variety of other services to connect people to the support they need.

You will be based at Gateway House in Wymondham and work as part of a team assessing and treating people people with moderate to severe mental illness who require specialist services and whose needs cannot be met elsewhere in the local system or by other partners.. The team provides diagnoses and formulates holistic, person-centred care and treatment. You may be required to undertake assessments in a patients own home based on clinical need and you need to be wiling to travel across South Norfolk.

Our Team is in a phase of transformation and modernisation and you need to be willing to respond positively to change that will benefit service users and new ways of working. We are committed to developing and improving the service. We value research and have received a Trust Excellence Award for our engagement in research.

The post holder will assess people with moderate to severe mental illness There will be some memory assessment work in the role. The postholder will develop treatment plans with support from an experienced team that includes Consultant Psychiatrists, Clinical Psychologists, Senior Nurses and an Occupational Therapist. The postholder will ensure service users have a clear recovery and discharge plan from the beginning of treatment.

NSFT's Community Services for Older People were rated Good in the most recent CQC inspection report and we are proud of our positive and caring approach to the patients and carers we are working with.

As a team we focus on Continuing Professional Development and have a drive for further developing our clinical knowledge and skills. The team have established links with Primary Care and other agencies, which enhance our work and ensure we are able to help and support our patients.

Benefits included with this role are:

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• 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)
• NHS discounts and many more.

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.