Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: Mainly from home but maybe required to come to Forget me Not Unit
- Hours
- Full time
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 354-AN-20981
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Salvington Lodge, Swandean
- Town
- Worthing
- Salary
- £32,073 - £39,043 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/06/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Community Mental Health Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 5
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
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).
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.
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 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 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 advice and carry out specialist nursing.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse with current registration [mental health/LD], appropriate to the job role
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Evidence of dementia experience either worked or lived
- Full driving licence
Desirable criteria
- Community experience
- Lone working
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
- Understanding of clinical governance
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
- Suesan Summers
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07747638299
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