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Band 5
Full-time, Flexible working

Mental Health Nurse

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS TrustNorthgate Hospital, Northgate Street, Great Yarmouth, NR30 1BU, United Kingdom£32,073 - £39,043Closes 21/09/2026

At a glance

Band
Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Posted
07/09/2026
Closes
21/09/2026

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Role summary

This role is for a Mental Health Practitioner to join the Community Team in Great Yarmouth. The successful candidate will hold a caseload of non-complex service users, offering holistic support and monitoring. The team values collaboration and recovery-focused care, and welcomes newly qualified practitioners, supporting them through preceptorship. The role requires enthusiasm, conscientiousness, compassion, empathy, and sensitivity.

Essential criteria

  • Valid registration with NMC or Professional Registration with Health Care Professionals Council
  • Mentorship qualification or willingness to undertake mentorship training.
  • Other
  • Ability to travel independently
  • CPA implementation

Desirable criteria

  • Experience in appropriate area
  • Has worked within an MDT setting
  • Valid registration with NMC or Professional Registration with Health Care Professionals Council
  • Mentorship qualification or willingness to undertake mentorship training.
  • Other
  • Ability to travel independently
  • CPA implementation
  • Experience in appropriate area
  • Has worked within an MDT setting

Useful to know

Band 5 pay context

Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.

This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.

Application window

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Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Mental Health Nurse

The closing date is 21 September 2026

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.

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