Clinical Nurse Specialist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 14/09/2026
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Role summary
This is a full-time, permanent Clinical Nurse Specialist role within the Central Norfolk Early Intervention in Psychosis team. The post holder will provide senior clinical contribution and supervision for assessment, formulation, treatment, and care of service users aged 14-65 experiencing First Episode Psychosis. The role requires extensive experience with complex health and social care difficulties in the community and prior experience with psychosis. It also includes Non-Medical Prescribing for the Central Norfolk caseload.
Essential criteria
- RMN or equivalent professional qualification.
- Non-Medical Independent Prescriber
Desirable criteria
- Study experience at Masters level, study at that level or clinical experience.
- BFT trained and recent experience of facilitating BFT with service users and their families
- GuidanceScore Extensive experience which has required supervision and mentorship of others.
- Extensive experience of practice within clinical areas
- Experience of supporting people with first episode psychosis
- Experience of implementing evidence based practice and or service improvement initiative.
- Able to demonstrate sound clinical expertise and knowledge of mental health disorders and their treatments.
- RMN or equivalent professional qualification.
- Non-Medical Independent Prescriber
- Study experience at Masters level, study at that level or clinical experience.
- BFT trained and recent experience of facilitating BFT with service users and their families
- GuidanceScore Extensive experience which has required supervision and mentorship of others.
- Extensive experience of practice within clinical areas
- Experience of supporting people with first episode psychosis
- Experience of implementing evidence based practice and or service improvement initiative.
- Able to demonstrate sound clinical expertise and knowledge of mental health disorders and their treatments.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 6d ago · Closes in 8d
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Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust
Clinical Nurse Specialist
The closing date is 14 September 2026
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Central Norfolk Early Intervention in Psychosis team on a full-time, permanent basis as a Clinical Nurse Specialist. In this role, you will offer senior clinical contribution and supervision to specialist team assessment, formulation, treatment and care of service users aged 14-65 experiencing First Episode Psychosis .
The successful candidate will have extensive experience of working alongside service users and families with complex health and social care difficulties within the community and prior experience of working with psychosis is essential
This Clinical Nurse Specialist role will include Non-Medical Prescribing to the Central Norfolk caseload as appropriate and under supervision of our service consultant. As such, NMP qualification and experience is an essential criterion for this post.
Main duties of the job
The job role with consist of the following, but is not limited to;
- Accepting and triaging all new referrals received by the team.
- To communicate /liaise effectively with relevant referring partners and other agencies.
- Arranging and carrying out initial assessments.
- Offering time to support the wider team with visits where specialist knowledge could be required
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