Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AFC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday 9-5)
- Job ref
- 354-AE-21372
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cavendish House, Hastings
- Town
- Hastings
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/10/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Community Mental Health Nurse
NHS AFC: Band 6
Come and join us
We’re looking for people who share our values of compassion, accountability and optimism to help us provide high quality care for the patients, carers, families and communities we serve. We specialise in NHS mental health and learning disability services and we’re proud to make a difference every day.
At SPFT we put people first. We’ll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. You’ll have opportunities to learn, grow and gain new experiences to support your career, with access to lifelong learning and professional development.
We actively promote flexible working and understand how important work life balance is, especially in healthcare. Whether it’s part time hours, hybrid working or flexible start and finish times, we’ll explore what works for you and the role.
We recognise that tools like AI are becoming part of everyday life and you may choose to use them when preparing your application. We welcome this, as long as what you submit reflects your own experience, skills and voice. AI can be helpful for structuring or refining your answers, but it should not replace your own examples or create content that isn’t based on your real experience.
Our recruitment process is designed to get to know you, and we’ll explore your examples further at interview, so it’s important your application genuinely represents what you bring. You can read more about using AI in applications and interviews on our recruitment process page.
We’re shaping a workplace where ideas are encouraged, technology supports you and everyone has a voice in how we improve. If that sounds like the kind of organisation you want to be part of, we’d love to hear from you.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Neighbourhood Mental Health Team (Specialist Adults) for a registered Mental Health Nurse, who ideally has experience of working with individuals in a community mental health setting.
The Specialist Adults Service (previously known as the Assessment and Treatment Service) supports adults with complex mental health needs.
Your role will be to support individuals by meeting their mental health support needs within our integrated mental health system.
Ideally you will have finely honed clinical assessment skills and be a decisive and highly skilled communicator. The ability to work autonomously and under pressure will be a requirement. You will be supported by a team of multidisciplinary colleagues on a daily basis and have access to decision making spaces within the team where further discussions are required.
You will be joining a warm, friendly, highly supportive team of dedicated colleagues who work together to offer the best possible service to the people we support. In return, we offer access to training opportunities to assist you in realising your potential and achieving a greater degree of job satisfaction.
This post offers the Trust's £2,000 Golden Hello or Relocation Incentive for Band 6 Nurses & Practitioners, (pro rata and subject to terms and conditions; please see attached Protocol Document for full details).
Main duties of the job
To undertake assessments of individuals and their families in the designated care group with complex health presentations, including those service users presenting with higher levels of risk. To develop alongside the service user their care plan.
To offer specialist nursing assessment and advice where required.
To assess and manage on going risks as identified during the assessment, ensuring that this is done in collaboration with the service user and carers. To regularly review risk factors and make changes to the management of them as necessary.
Working for our organisation
As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of their staff, their reward packages reflect the immensely important work their staff do.
If you are looking for the opportunity to work within a busy but rewarding Specialist Adults Mental Health Team in a seaside town like no other, then we would love to hear from you. Hastings is a vibrant seaside town, offering affordable coastal living along with independent shopping and a variety of cafes, bars and restaurants and a very creative music and artistic scene.
As a practitioner in our team we can offer you:
Access to numerous wellbeing and support programmes
Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
Flexible working patterns
Reimbursed parking
Child care vouchers
Access to a host of NHS discount schemes (including gyms, shopping, restaurants and cars)
A position within a trust rated as 'Outstanding' for caring and 'Good' overall by the CQC
Generous holiday entitlement (dependent on length of NHS service) starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays
NHS Pension contributions
We encourage flexible working:
We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust nursing strategy.
To ensure that clinical practice is evidence based and consistent with relevant NICE guidelines and Trust policies and procedures.
To provide supervision of junior staff and trainees where appropriate.
To act within the NMC code of conduct at all times.
To manage a caseload of clients with complex health needs.
To work in partnership with the individual service user and their families and carers as appropriate to ensure the delivery of the care plan, and to enable the development of a plan to facilitate their safety, promote their well being and support their independence and inclusion in the community, by using recognised age appropriate self management tools where applicable. This may include working closely with partner agencies such as voluntary sector agencies, schools and colleges which may be able to more appropriately help the service user complete these tools.
To develop care plans that meet the needs of the individual and their family/carers as appropriate and that are focused on strengths and are outcome based.
To plan and implement client centred individual, family and group interventions, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals.
To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.
To administer and monitor medication prescribed to individual service users, providing information and advice.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse with current registration
- Completion of Mentorship Course/ ENB equivalent
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Significant post qualifying experience in the relevant care group
- Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems in the designated care group
- Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Becky Blackman
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 304 0244
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