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.

About us
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)

Details
Date posted: 19 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year gross per annum (pro rata)
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 246-WSU8343513
Job locations: Hospital road site, Hospital Road, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 3NR, United Kingdom

Person Specification
Qualifications

• Essential: Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse, Occupational Therapist OR Social Worker with the relevant professional registration
• Essential: Practice Assessor and Practice Supervisor training (NMC registrants) or Practice Educator (AHP & Social Worker Registrants)

Experience

• Essential: Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
• Desirable: Experience working in the specific area

Knowledge

• Essential: The ability to use clinical assessment tools and outcome measures effectively and collaboratively
• Essential: Have the ability to discuss, identify and escalate safeguarding issues in a sensitive way to protect those who are vulnerable
• Desirable: Knowledge of health promotion

Other

• Essential: Ability and willingness to travel independently to meet the needs and requirements of the service

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust
Address: Hospital road site, Hospital Road, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 3NR, United Kingdom
Employer's website: Apply through our website

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Community Team Manager, Chris Hicks, chris.hick@nsft.nhs.uk, 07717151081