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Job summary

Main area
Mental Health
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 5 - 6 development post
Contract
Secondment: 10 months (Fixed Term Ending on the 31st March 2026)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 09:00 - 17:00pm)
Job ref
354-AN-20848
Employer
Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Salvington Lodge, Swandean
Town
Worthing
Salary
£29,970 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
20/07/2025 08:00

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Community Mental Health Practitioner

NHS AfC: Band 5 - 6 development post

Come and join us

We're looking for people who share our values (compassion, accountability and optimism) to help us provide high quality care to the patients, carers, families and local communities we serve. We specialise in providing NHS mental health and learning disability services.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Job overview

The Dementia Care Home Support Team (DCHST) is a new  service created to support people with dementia living in West Sussex who required increased support to facilitate a timely and safe discharge into a nursing or residential care home setting. The service also supports those who are  at risk of admission/ readmission to any acute hospital in West Sussex; including University Hospitals Sussex (UHSx), Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH), Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust (SPFT), and Sussex Community Foundation Trust (SCFT).

This role is open to Band 5 staff for development into band 6

Main duties of the job

As a Community Mental Health professional in our service you will be focussed on improving outcomes for service users, working creatively with them and their carers to co-create care and risk plans that will help them achieve their goals and live as independently as possible. The key to success in this role is often about building effective partnerships with GPs, Crisis services, housing and other third sector providers.

We welcome applications for qualified mental health nurses, Social workers  and Occupational Therapists. 

 

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. Social worker or OT 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
-    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)

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The role of Community Nurse/Social worker/OT is to work in partnership with service users in the designated care group with complex health presentations, 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/social worker/OT advice and carry out specialist nursing/social worker/OT procedures. They will provide clinical supervision to staff and students and act as a mentor for student nurses.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered Nurse/Social worker/OT 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 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

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Suesan Summers
Job title
Matron
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07747638299
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