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Mental Health Nurse

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Norwich, NR6 5BE

Salary

£32,073 to £39,043

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

15 September 2026

12 days left

Job description

Are you a compassionate and motivated Registered Nurse looking to develop your career in acute mental health? We are looking for enthusiastic Band 5 R...

You will provide safe, effective and person-centred care to patients throughout their inpatient journey. You will develop therapeutic relationships, contribute to assessments and care planning, support recovery goals and promote patients' independence and wellbeing.

You will work collaboratively with patients, families, carers and the wider multidisciplinary team to ensure care is coordinated and responsive to individual needs. Your role will include physical health monitoring, risk assessment and management, medicines management, safeguarding and supporting the safe management of restrictive practices.

Every shift offers opportunities to use your clinical judgement, respond to changing needs, support therapeutic interventions and contribute to positive recovery outcomes.

We are committed to your development and offer a comprehensive induction, clinical supervision, preceptorship where appropriate, specialist training and continuing professional development. You will be encouraged to develop your expertise, contribute ideas and identify opportunities to improve patient care and experience.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

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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.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Benefits included with this role are:-

  • NHS pension
  • 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)
  • Staff physio service
  • NHS discounts and many more

We welcome informal discussions and would love you to get in touch to talk about the opportunities available and come and visit to see what we are all about.

Experience

Desirable

  • Previous experience working with people with mental health needs

Qualifications

Essential

  • Nursing degree or equivalent RN(MH)

Skills

Essential

  • Good observation and reporting skills
  • Ability to motivate others

Desirable

  • Ability to supervise others

Knowledge

Essential

  • Understanding of issues surrounding confidentiality

Desirable

  • Awareness of security and its impact and willingness to expand knowledge on it.
  • Working knowledge /application of the Mental Health Act 1983

Other

Essential

  • Flexibility of duty and hours over a 24hr 7 day a week period
  • Ability to travel independently

How to apply

Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.

Provenance

Source

NHS Jobs

First seen

2 September 2026

Last checked

3 September 2026

Salary, closing date and description are taken from the employer's advert. The original advert always takes precedence.

About the employer

NSF
Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

NHS organisation

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