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About the job
Job summary
Band 6 Senior Mental Health Nurse - Young Adults Mental Health Service (YAMHS)
The West Suffolk Young Adults Mental Health Service (YAMHS) is looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Band 6 Senior Mental Health Nurse to join our multidisciplinary team in Bury St Edmunds.
YAMHS provides specialist assessment, treatment, care planning and care coordination for young adults aged 18-25 experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties.
As a Senior Mental Health Nurse, you will undertake assessments, provide evidence-based interventions, act as a Lead Care Professional, participate in duty and triage functions, work collaboratively with partner agencies and contribute to quality improvement and service development initiatives to ensure safe, effective, and compassionate care.
This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled and compassionate practitioner who enjoys working with young adults, values multidisciplinary collaboration, and is committed to supporting recovery and positive outcomes. We offer a supportive environment where you can continue to develop your clinical expertise, leadership skills, and professional autonomy.
If you're passionate about making a difference to the lives of young adults, we'd love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
- Manage a caseload of young adults, providing assessment, treatment, care coordination, and recovery-focused support.
- Undertake mental health, risk, and urgent assessments, developing and reviewing person-centred care plans.
- Participate in duty, triage, and multidisciplinary working to ensure timely and effective care.
- Monitor patient progress, manage risk, and support safe discharge planning.
- Work collaboratively with service users, carers, partner agencies, and the wider multidisciplinary team.
- Maintain accurate clinical records, care documentation, and performance reporting requirements.
- Support clinical governance, quality improvement, service development, and evidence-based practice.
- Provide supervision, mentorship, and support to students and junior colleagues.
- Promote safeguarding, patient safety, and the Trust's TALK values in all aspects of practice.
Job responsibilities
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!
Please visit our website to hear from some of our current nurses on why they work here and on some of our services. You can also visit our Facebook page Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs
Please contact Chris Hicks (Chris.Hicks@nsft.nhs.uk) for any additional information you would like to know about this post.
About the employer
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.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful Suffolk and Norfolk coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Bury St Edmunds and our villages, surrounding 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.
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)
Advert text from Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust, published on NHS Jobs. Read the original advert.
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