Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Eastbourne Neighbourhood Mental Health Team (Specialist Adults) for a Registered Mental Health Nurse with experience of working in a community mental health setting. We are looking for three confident nurses to help us improve and enhance our access (triage), response and planned treatment offer.

Our service is a multi-disciplinary service for adults with multiple and enduring mental health needs. As a nurse in our service, you will be focussed on improving outcomes for service users, working creatively with them and their families and carers to co-create care plans that will help them achieve their goals and live as independently as possible. You will also work closely with other services within Sussex Partnership, our Core Neighbourhood Team as well as with other aligned and partner agencies. 

As a nurse within our team, you will become part of a much more integrated network of services and will be central in driving and continuing to develop our Neighbourhood model in close partnership with our Primary and VCSE colleagues.

See more about our vision https://www.sussex.ics.nhs.uk/our-work/our-priorities/mental-health-learning-disability-and-autism/mental-health/community-mh-transformation/

Main duties of the job

The role of Community Mental Health Nurse is to work in partnership with service users in the designated care group with multiple mental health presentations and working alongside service users to develop their care plans and recovery plans to enable them to lead fulfilling lives. You will demonstrate an understanding of Triage and Assessment, as well as clinical interventions relevant to the care group to include education, care plans and discharge planning, working closely with carers, families and partner agencies to facilitate this.

Post holder Expectations:
To be an active participant in the multi-disciplinary team, formulating care plans and utilising appropriate assessments.
To take part in all quality initiatives actively supporting and participating in both policies and service developments in the specific care group.
Carry a caseload, actively working with other involved agencies, families and carers.
Assess, plan and implement care, and provide specialist nursing advice and carry out specialist nursing procedures.
To participate in regular clinical, professional and managerial supervision.
Provide clinical supervision to junior staff and act as a mentor for student nurses.
To maintain and contribute to standards of professional care, ethics, policies and procedures.
To contribute, to improve access for patients to local generic health care services, primary, secondary and specialist services.
To maintain record keeping within Trust guidelines, national standards and NICE.

Working for our organisation

As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of their staff, their reward packages reflect the immensely important work their staff do.
If you are looking for the opportunity to work within a busy but rewarding NMHT service in a seaside town like no other, then we would love to hear from you.  Eastbourne is a vibrant seaside town, offering affordable coastal living along with independent shopping and a variety of cafes, bars and restaurants and a very creative music and artistic scene.
As a practitioner in our team we can offer you:
Access to numerous wellbeing and support programmes
Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
Flexible working patterns
Reimbursed parking
Child care vouchers
Access to a host of NHS 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 (dependent on length of NHS service) starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays
NHS Pension contributions

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, 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.