Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 354-AC-21209
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chapel Street Clinic
- Town
- Chichester
- Salary
- £27,485 - £30,162 pa / pro rata for part time
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Nursing Associate
NHS AfC: Band 4
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 Chichester Neighbourhood Mental Health Team is looking for a Registered Nursing Associate who is trained in venepuncture, competent in completing physical health checks and has a passion for working in mental health.
We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated and skilled Nursing Associate with experience in working with a complex caseload. It will be your responsibility to coordinate and undertake physical health assessments for our Client Group with support from band 6 staff and medical staff. This will involve visiting and carrying out assessments in the community for hard to engage patients (with another member of staff). This post is for 37.5 hours per week. Your role may also involve other tasks around supporting and building relationships with patients, depending on your experience.
Main duties of the job
We are a well-staffed multi-disciplinary team made up of Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, a Psychologist, Psychiatrists, Support Workers, Peer Support Worker and a Pharmacy Technician. We operate as a team within a creative and flexible approach and provide shared responsibility of risk management to support our service users who have a primary diagnosis of psychosis. We run groups for service users and has a biopsychosocial approach to support.
Your role will involve supporting Lead Practitioners with their complex caseload, primarily around physical health checks. Your role may, at times, also involve undertaking duty tasks including supporting patients in crisis, with medication related matters and practical support to service users by building up long term relationships with them.
Working for our organisation
The Trust provides mental health and learning disability care for all ages across Sussex.
We’d love you to join our Trust, rated ‘good’ overall and ‘outstanding’ for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, recent staff survey results told us that 82% recognise that care for patients is our top priority.
Key staff survey results include:
• 70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work
• 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their team
• 77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description for the full details on the role. See below for further contact details;
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register
- Educated to a minimum level 5 Foundation degree level specific to nursing associate practice
- Care Certificate
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of three years working with people with mental health problems (A/I)
- Ability to listen effectively and communicate at all levels (I)
- Basic written communication skills to enable completion of records etc (A)
- Empathy, compassion and patience (I)
- Willingness to be flexible in meeting service users needs (I)
- Ability to create innovative solutions to help empower service users (A,I)
- Ability to work unsupervised in a range of settings. (A,I)
- Ability to form positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers. (A,I)
- A keenness to make a positive contribution to improving the quality of life for people with mental health problems. (A,I)
- Ability to acknowledge diversity and promote antidiscriminatory practice/equal opportunities (A,I)
- Ability to provide practical support with daily living activities (A/I)
- An ability to act calmly in emergencies and to respond in a professional manner to stressful and challenging behaviour. (I)
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Marylinda Gororo
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 304 0400
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