Acute Link Nurse

West Norfolk Acute Services are looking to recruit an experienced Band 6 Mental Health Link Nurse to work between our acute mental health teams in Kings Lynn. This job role will focus on improving patient flow through admission prevention and facilitating early discharge from the inpatient service through care planning and delivering intensive home treatment options.

We offer an acute crisis pathway to improve the patient journey and overall experience of service users, families and carers. The post holder will liaise with internal and external teams to ensure a smooth transition between teams and family/carer liaison where appropriate.

We are expecting ambitious people to apply for this role and we take a creative outlook on staff development. Through listening to your values and opinions, the team supports ongoing learning both internally and externally.

Your core hours will be Monday to Friday 09:00am to 17:00pm but every day will be different. You will attend inpatient reviews, undertake

interventions on a 1:1 basis such as Dialog + (full training provided), support the CRHT in assessment and treatment planning , attend MDT

and professionals' meetings and cover one shift per week on Samphire Ward as Nurse in Charge.

We are looking for someone who can build on existing internal and external relationships to ensure that our service users are supported by the right people to optimise their recovery. Working closing with our Discharge Facilitator, you will work proactively with service users to ensure purposeful admissions to the inpatient unit and identify goals and barriers to discharge early on.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being 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.

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

Relocation packages.

Why Norfolk ? 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.

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 provisional; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time, please note you may be given 3 days notice. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

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** This post attracts a recruitment premium of £3,000 (pro-rata for part time roles). This is a one-off payment with half paid on appointment and half

paid after the completion of a satisfactory probation period (6 months). The premium is taxable. Please note that should you leave employment or

choose to move to an alternative post within the Trust that does not attract this recruitment premium, you will be required to reimburse. Please

note this recruitment premium is for external applicants only. Not applicable to newly qualified nurses. **

• Previous applicants need not apply *