Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week
- Job ref
- 354-AE-21260
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hill Rise
- Town
- Newhaven
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/02/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Memory Assessment Service 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 AI is becoming part of daily life and you may choose to use it to help prepare your application. We welcome innovation but ask that anything you submit reflects your own abilities, experience and voice. AI can support how you describe your skills and experience, but it should never replace your own words as we want to get to know you.
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
Memory Assessment Nurse - Permanent, part-time (2 days a week)
We have a great opportunity for a registered mental health nurse, working across the High Weald, Lewes and Havens area of East Sussex for our Memory Assessment Service. The post will be based at Hill Rise in Newhaven which is a fishing port surrounded by the South Downs National Park and less than ten miles from the vibrant city of Brighton.
Main duties of the job
The Memory Assessment Service is a relatively small nurse led team that provides assessment, diagnosis and treatment initiation for Dementia. Referrals all come from GPs. Following Triage screening, the Memory Assessment nurses meet with patients and often their carers, to conduct comprehensive assessments which are then discussed with our Dementia specialist Consultant and our Non-medical prescribing Senior Nurse practitioners then deliver the diagnosis and commence prescribing if indicated. Patients are generally discharged back to primary care post diagnosis or their care is transferred to the Specialist Older Adult team for follow-up.
Working for our organisation
As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do.
As a nurse in our team we can offer you:
- Access to numerous wellbeing and support programmes, run by our internal wellbeing team
- Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
- Flexible working patterns
- Access to a host of 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 (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)
- A ‘Golden Hello’ or relocation package of up to £2000 (see attached documentation)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The role of the Memory Assessment Nurse is to work in partnership with service users with memory problems, assessing and developing their care plans and recovery plans to enable them to lead fulfilling lives. They will demonstrate an understanding of clinical interventions relevant the care group to include education, care plans and discharge planning, working closely with carers, families and partner agencies to facilitate this. The post holder will work at all times to promote the safety and the well being of service users and their families/carers. The post holder will assess, plan and implement care, and provide specialist nursing advice and carry out specialist nursing procedures. They will provide clinical supervision to staff and students and acting as a mentor for student nurses.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse with current registration [mental health/LD/Adult], appropriate to the job role
- Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems in the designated care group
- Experience of supervising staff
- Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems
- Experience of working consultatively with professionals
- Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
- Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non statutory teams and agencies
- Experience of working within the CPA process
- Understanding of clinical governance
- Previous experience of working in the community
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
- Simon Hellyer
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07471034300
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