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Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS TrustKesgrave, East of England

Salary
£49,387 to £56,515
Contract
Fixed-Term
Location
Kesgrave
Closes
25 October 2026

Overview

This is a NHS role (fixed-term) with Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust based in Kesgrave. The advertised salary is £49,387 to £56,515. Applications close on 25 October 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.

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Job description

Our Suffolk Perinatal Community Mental Health service is excited to be looking to recruit an additional Clinical Nurse Specialist. This is an opportun...

The job role with consist of the following, but is not limited to;

  • Accepting and triaging all new referrals received by the team.
  • To communicate /liaise effectively with relevant referring partners and other agencies.
  • Arranging and carrying out initial assessments.
  • Offering time to support the wider team with visits where specialist knowledge could be required
  • Being part of the wider Senior Leadership Team and encouraging evidence based changes and processes across the service.
  • Supporting staff with advice for duty calls during working hours and putting in place appropriate actions to address identified risks.
  • To ensure that any identified immediate risks are appropriately responded to and a proportionate risk management strategy is actioned, with input from the multidisciplinary team members.
  • Keeping up to date with relevant perinatal research and news to share with the wider team
  • Offering caseload supervision to case managers

If you're enthusiastic, person centred and have experience working in a community setting, we would love to hear from you.

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!

  • 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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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.

Essential: - RMN or equivalent professional qualification; - Non-Medical Independent Prescriber; - Degree Level Qualification or equivalent or equivalent level

Desirable: - Study experience at Masters level, study at that level or clinical experience; - ENB 998

Essential: - 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

Essential: - Able to demonstrate sound clinical expertise and knowledge of mental health disorders and their treatments.

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How this role compares

We hold 893 NHS vacancies in East of England that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £39,959. This role pays more than about 66% of them.

There are 13,012 NHS roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 1,295 of them in East of England.

You have 4 days left to apply. NHS adverts we hold typically run for around 46 days, so this is a shorter window than usual.

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust has 67 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.

These figures are calculated from the vacancies GovJobs currently holds, not from official pay statistics. They are a guide to the market, not a valuation of this post.

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