Mental Health Nurse Suffolk in Stowmarket

We are seeking a skilled and compassionate Mental Health Nurse to join our Crisis Assessment and Intensive Support Team (CAIST) within the Suffolk Crisis Service. This is a dynamic and rewarding role supporting children and young people in acute mental health distress.

You will be responsible for assessing referrals, delivering direct care, and managing a caseload in collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team. The role involves work in a fast-paced environment where your clinical expertise and decision-making will have a direct impact on service users and their families.

Main duties of the job:

• Undertake direct assessments and deliver care plans for children and young people in crisis.
• Ensure the appropriateness of referrals and continuity of care across services.
• Work collaboratively with multi-agency partners including CAMHS, social care, and education.
• Provide supervision and support to junior staff and students.
• Maintain accurate mental health clustering and documentation across all stages of care.
• Contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives.

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.

Job responsibilities:

• The post holder will be working within a community CAMHS Crisis team, ensuring the appropriateness of referrals, undertaking direct assessment and planning and delivering direct patient care with appropriate supervision, ensuring continuity of practice and working within a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment.
• Managing a caseload and the provision of Mental Health Care services to people with mental health care needs.
• Support and advising to other health care professionals.
• To support aspects of service development.
• Provide an appropriate learning environment for relevant UEA students.
• To be responsible for accurate mental health clustering of all patients on admission, discharge and at review.
• To ensure all mental health clustering information is passed onto other Trust teams or services on transfer of patients.
• To ensure the accuracy and quality of mental health clustering activity within the team.

This post attracts a recruitment premium of £3,000 (pro-rata for part time roles). This is a one off payment with half paid on appointment and half paid after the completion of a satisfactory probation period (6 months). The premium is taxable.

Person Specification:

• Qualifications: Registered Mental Health Nurse with the relevant professional registration; Practice Supervisor / Practice Assessor training (in line with NMC Standards for Student Supervision and Assessment 2018).
• Experience: Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team; Familiar with risk assessment and its management.
• Skills: Able to demonstrate the ability to process, plan and delegate work; Able to time manage and reflect on clinical practice.
• Others: Be able and willing to undertake further training / development specific to the role.

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.