Employer Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site County Hall Town Norwich Salary £47,810 - £54,710 gross per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 27/10/2025 23:59 Interview date 04/11/2025

Clinical Nurse Specialist

Band 7

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.

Job overview

Come and join the TIDES (At Risk Mental State) Service as Clinical Nurse Specialist!

In our service we support young people (aged 14-35 years) who are experiencing an at risk mental state. We have enthusiastic and skilled staff who provide the support that is needed - and they are motivated to make a real difference to young people and adults, their families and carers.

The Therapeutic Interventions for Distressing unusual Experiences Service (TIDES) is a team working therapeutically with young people across Norfolk & Waveney.

Our team offers young people evidence-based interventions such as psychoeducational work, individual CBT and family therapeutic work aimed at helping our young people and their families to manage their unusual experiences. TIDES practitioners work with small manageable caseloads and hold an integrated approach to the care we provide.

Your choice of base could be Norwich, Great Yarmouth, or King's Lynn. However you would be expected to work flexibly between bases in Norwich, Great Yarmouth, Kings Lynn,

As an employer, Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust are particularly committed to enabling our staff to do the very best they can through support and training, as well as opportunities for progression. We are confident, therefore, that the right candidate will have a real chance to make a positive impact to the lives of young people in Norfolk.

If this role speaks to you, please consider applying.

Main duties of the job

The role of the Clinical Nurse Specialist is to provide specialist clinical interventions to our young people, their families and loved ones. It also involves delivery of leadership activities within the team.

The ideal candidate will be a team player, have a good interpersonal skill, is flexible in their approach, and is enthusiastic about working with young people and young adults, to help live the lives they want to.

If appointed, you will:

• Deliver clinical interventions.
• Work as a non-medical prescriber.
• Offer support, supervision and informal training to your colleagues.
• Contribute to multi-disciplinary team (MDT) meetings.
• Undertake other clinical tasks within the team.
• Deputise for the Community Team Manager on occasion.

You will have a nursing qualification, trained as a non-medical prescriber, and will have developed your skills through extensive experience in mental health.

Working for our organisation

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves as a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

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 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.

Detailed job description and main 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!

Some of the benefits you can expect:
- 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.

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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With any questions, or to discuss the role further, please reach out to Sarah Sanders:

Person specification

Qualifications

• RMN or equivalent professional qualification
• Non-Medical Independent Prescriber
• Degree Level Qualification or equivalent or equivalent level
• Study experience at masters level, study at that level or clinical experience.

Experience

• Extensive experience at which has required supervision and mentorship of others.
• Extensive experience of practice within clinical area with proven track record in delivering high quality care
• Experience in developing teams
• Experience of working in community settings
• Experience of implementing evidence based practice and or service improvement initiative.

Other

• Ability to travel to all trust locations as required
• PMA fit

YOUR APPLICATION

We can provide all our job application materials in alternative formats so that these are accessible to everyone. Should you require any documents within this job pack in an alternative format, please do not hesitate to contact us at recruitment@nsft.nhs.uk.

PLEASE NOTE: If you use a hotmail, msn or yahoo e-mail account, you will need to check your "junk" mail regularly as these email providers will divert any communication from this Trust/NHS JOBS straight into your " junk" inbox.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification).. We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post may be subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Sarah Sanders Job title Community Matron Email address sarah.sanders@nsft.nhs.uk Telephone number 01603 671901 Additional information

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