Job summary
We currently have a substantive Band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioner post within Coastal Adult CMHT open to applications from Registered Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers and Occupational Therapists. The team is based in East Ipswich and covers the area from East Ipswich through to rural areas of Felixstowe, Leiston and Aldeburgh. We are a recovery focussed, multi-disciplinary team providing an effective, supportive, and professional service for our Services users and Carers.

You will be a qualified professional with experience of supporting people and their families, preferably in the community.You will demonstrate a strong understanding of your role as a Care Coordinator/Assessor and join our dedicated multidisciplinary team working closely with a range of partners to provide appropriate community interventions for those individuals referred to the team.

We are looking for people to join us to continue to build on an already successful service.

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.

Every individual makes a valuable contribution in the team. We are proud of our staff, and we are looking for people to join us in continuing to develop what the service of Coastal CMHT looks like.

Main duties of the job
You can expect a manageable case load and a supportive management team to ensure you're able to work independently but support is never far away if needed.

The typical job roles and responsibilities will include:

• Working with other multi-disciplinary professionals within the team.
• Undertake initial assessments.
• Liaise with statutory and voluntary sectors
• The successful candidate will be an integral part of this team. You will contribute to meetings both within the service and in wider networks.
• Effective personal planning and organisation of daily workload.
• Flexible working and manage own working time effectively and accordingly to service demands.
• Managing and providing a high quality of care.
• Managing a case load of patient that have a range of mental health needs.
• Initiate, create and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and carers, ensuring that practice is patient centred.
• Participating in the duty rota
• Practicing in line with policy, guidance and legislation.
• Carrying out risk assessment, crisis and safety planning.
• Working closely with the ACS mental health team to support our patients, meeting both their mental health needs and their Care Act needs.
• To support patients in being discharged back to primary care.

About us
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 nursing 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.

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.

Date posted: 14 July 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, Flexible working
Reference number: 246-ESU8127563
Job locations: Coastal Adult CMHT, Resource Centre, Walker Close, Ipswich, IP3 8LY

Job responsibilities
The post will involve you working autonomously in the community. You will engage with people, and using effective communication, often in difficult and stressful circumstances. You will be undertaking initial assessments, introducing services, making referrals to appropriate agencies, and monitoring and supporting situations to achieve positive outcomes for our service users and carers. You will be supported within your practice via a helpful team.

Valid Driving Licence for the UK is required for this role.
Previous Applicants Need Not Apply

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 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.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology or equivalent
• Ongoing professional development working towards degree level

Desirable

• Good to great management course, or equivalent

Experience
Essential

• Experience in the delivery of clinical interventions
• Experience in working in team delivering person centred treatment packages

Desirable

• Experience in delivering group based interventions

Skills
Essential

• Competent assessment skills
• Competent and effective treatment skills

Desirable

• Prevention and Management of Suicide training
• Medicine Management Safeguarding training

Knowledge
Essential

• Knowledge of medication and the monitoring of its effects
• Knowledge of psychosocial interventions

Other
Essential

• Ability to travel independently

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 (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust
Address: Coastal Adult CMHT, Resource Centre, Walker Close, Ipswich, IP3 8LY
Employer's website: Apply through our website

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Clinical Team Leader
Adrian Matthews
adrian.matthews@nsft.nhs.uk
01473279200