Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 354-AE-21247
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Millwood, Uckfield Community Hospital
- Town
- Uckfield
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/01/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Intensive Support 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 AI is becoming part of daily life and you may choose to use it to help prepare your application. We welcome innovation but ask that anything you submit reflects your own abilities, experience and voice. AI can support how you describe your skills and experience, but it should never replace your own words as we want to get to know you.
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
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We have a community nursing opportunity within our Intensive Support Team (IST), Older Adults Mental Health service within Wealden Neighbourhood Mental Health Team based at Uckfield. The post will suit a Registered Mental Health Nurse but will consider Learning Difficulties Nurses who have sufficient experience of working with Dementia or severe mental illness and also Band 5 Nurses willing to do Band 5 to 6 Mental Health Nurse development post. The post involves working with older people with complex mental health and physical health care needs. You will be expected to support both the client and their carers. You will also need to be able to work cohesively with other services within our Trust and with other partner agencies. You will be caring, compassionate, a good communicator, with a commitment to improving the lives of our service users through creative, evidence based practice. You will be working collaboratively with service users and their carers on the IST caseload to create care plans that meet their needs and maximise their independence. There will be travel across the geographical area covered by the team, the ability to travel to remote areas is essential. The post is 37.5 hours per week with shift pattern, including extended hours and weekend working. |
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be an autonomous practitioner who will carry continuing responsibility for a defined caseload of service users by undertaking the following duties:
- To undertake assessments of individuals and their families in the designated care group with complex health presentations, including those service users presenting with higher levels of risk.
- To develop alongside the service user their care plan.
- To offer specialist nursing assessment and advice where required.
- To assess and manage on going risks as identified during the assessment, ensuring that this is done in collaboration with the service user and carers. To regularly review risk factors and make changes to the management of them as necessary.
- To provide supervision of junior staff and trainees where appropriate.
Working for our organisation
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The Trust offers a supportive working environment and access to training opportunities to assist you to realise your potential and achieve a greater degree of job satisfaction. As a Trust employee you will enjoy the following: • Excellent starting salary • NHS Pension contributions • 27 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays • Flexible Working patterns • Child care vouchers • Excellent training and development opportunities • NHS Discounts • Employee Assistance Programme
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information regarding the role.
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
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
- Isaac Otto
- Job title
- Team Lead, Older Adults MH
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07825 202282
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