Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 354-PC-20729-1
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams
- Town
- Brighton
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 Per annum / pro rata for part time
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Mental Health Practitioner
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
This post offers a Golden Hello of up to £2000.
As we work towards our goal of providing an integrated service across primary and secondary care, our community mental health services are being transformed to recognise the changes in how people want to access them. We need to support those who have experienced barriers to accessing services which support their mental health, due to, the complexity of their needs, or the configuration of our services.
We are seeking practitioners with experience of providing rapid and responsive assessment, signposting and brief treatments to join us at this exciting time as a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner (MHP). You will be a qualified Nurse or Allied Health Professional, with the relevant professional registration (NMC, HCPC).
Employed by SPFT, this Mental Health Practitioner post works within the Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner Team within the Neighbourhood Mental Health Team (NMHT). The role will support the embedding of specialist mental health expertise at a neighbourhood level within the Emotional Wellbeing Services.
Main duties of the job
You will work as a Primary Care MHP ensuring:
1. Patients with mild to moderate mental health need access the most appropriate treatment for their mental health difficulty through delivery of rapid and responsive triage, assessment, signposting and brief treatment (1:1, group based and digital platforms).
2. The embedding of mental health expertise in a primary care setting. Working alongside VCS and NMHT colleagues to ensure a holistic, joined up approach for patients with mild-moderate and stable, severe mental health needs, ensuring the most appropriate pathway according to presenting need. You will provide advice and consultation to VCS colleagues in managing issues of complexity and risk, as well as clinical assessment, signposting and brief treatment (1:1 and / or group based) to individuals referred to the clinical element of the service by VCS colleagues within the MDT.
Covid-19 full vaccination may be a condition of employment for this role, unless an exemption applies. The successful applicant may have contact with vulnerable service users and we will therefore seek proof of being fully vaccinated during the recruitment process.
Working for our organisation
Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.
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, home-working, 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.
We’d love you to join our Trust, rated ‘good’ overall and ‘outstanding’ for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, in our recent staff survey 82% told us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.
Other key survey results:
- 70% highlighting flexible working as a key point for satisfaction at work
- 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their team
- 77% identifying opportunities to show initiative in their roles
Detailed job description and main responsibilities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In order to be a successful Mental Health Practitioner in our team you will be:
- A qualified Nurse or Allied Health Professional, with the relevant professional registration (NMC or HCPC)
- Motivated by developing a newly created role, within a new service provision
- Experienced working within a mental health setting
It would also be advantageous if you are:
- Experienced working in a Primary Care setting
This is a hybrid role, working from home and from bases. Although your employer will be SPFT you may be based within GP practice.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health qualification or equivalent
- Include relevant professional registration
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive post-qualifying experience of clinical work with people with a range of mental health problems
- Experience or demonstrable knowledge/understanding of working in community mental health settings
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
- Lisa Halsey
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07738758351
- Additional information
Please contact using mobile number stated or alternatively call the main service number on 0300 002 0060.
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