Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 354-AE-21301-A
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hill Rise
- Town
- Newhaven
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/06/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Community Mental Health Practitioner (Adult Triage)
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
Band 6 Triage practitioner - Full-time, permanent position
ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A NEW CHALLENGE? ARE YOU AN EXPERIENCED MENTAL HEALTH NURSE, OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST OR SOCIAL WORKER LOOKING FOR A NEW OPPORTUNITY AND THE NEXT STEP IN YOUR CAREER?
We have a Band 6 vacancy as a Triage practitioner for Wealden and Lewes Neighbourhood Mental Health teams. We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and experienced practitioner to join our triage team.
The post is based in our Newhaven base. Newhaven is a small harbour town in the beautiful countryside of the South Downs National Park, only a few miles from Eastbourne and Brighton.
If successful, you would join a small, dedicated and dynamic team who manage the referrals coming into the Neighbourhood teams. The role involves the screening, assessment and prioritisation of cases and liaising with our neighbourhood partners in primary care.
Main duties of the job
With the support of our two Triage Senior Nurse Practitioners, this role entails ensuring referrals are triaged and managed within the agreed time scales and appropriate to clinical need. As you will be at the front door of the service, you will need to possess excellent communication skills to enable us to represent the service professionally, maintain positive working relationships with our partner agencies and establish rapport and trust with the people referred.
You will also need well developed mental health and risk assessment skills and a good working knowledge of mental health services.
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.
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 for Nurses of up to £2000 (see attached documentation)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
2. To undertake initial assessments of individuals and their families
3. To complete risk assessments and develop care plans
4. To contribute to risk management and safety planning
5. 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
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
- 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 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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