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Join Our Dynamic Team as a Mental Health Nurse!
The Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team based at Hellesdon Hospital; Norwich are seeking ambitious Senior Registered Mental Health Nurses to join our existing team.
Our diverse team ranging from assistant practitioners, a hands-on service manager, physician associates, advanced nurse practitioners and more, can offer you the opportunity to develop your skillset, working alongside and learning from senior clinicians in a varied nursing role.
We’re proactive and highly skilled at managing risk and supporting service users in Norwich, South, North and Central Norfolk who are presenting in crisis. We’re passionate about providing alternative to hospital admissions, so you can expect to be undertaking rewarding, intensive work.
Responsibilities
As a senior nurse within the team, you can expect a range of responsibilities including shift coordinator, triaging, assessments, working in home treatment within a community setting, without solely holding a caseload.
We split the team geographically and take equal responsibility for caseloads, so you will not hold one independently. Whether you have experience gained from an acute or community setting previously, it is important you recognise acute presentation and have a good understanding of the local mental health system.
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If you enjoy working with high-risk cases, are looking to develop as an autonomous, confident practitioner, then we’d love to hear from you!
Support and Development
When you join us, you can expect to be supported in building your competence in assessment, there will be a minimum of two-week local induction and a core competency framework to work with, to support you to develop your assessment skills, using evidence-based practice.
We host regular reflective practice sessions, training days and wellbeing workshops, as well as clinical and management supervision. CRHT are quality improvement focussed and have regular interfaces with a range of teams, both internally and externally, including a focus on outreach with primary care.
Shift Pattern
The shift pattern is long days, 3 per week, including night and weekend cover, with 4 days off, we can offer the opportunity to rotate if this is something of particular interest. The service operates 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year.
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.
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Why Norfolk and Suffolk?
The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops, and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
Benefits
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits and in addition:
- Flexible working hours
- Up to 307 hours holiday entitlement (subject to length of service)
- FREE physio service
- FREE Yoga and Pilates
- Cycle scheme tax-free bikes and accessories
- Support with revalidation
- Post graduate training opportunities
- We will pay for your initial DBS check (excluding the annual update service charge of £13)
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Marie Ikewun
- Job title: Community Team Manager
- Email address: marie.ikewun@nsft.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01603 421239
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