Job summary
- Main area
- NHMT
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 354-AC-21327
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Acre
- Town
- Worthing
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/09/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Neighbourhood Mental Health Team Group Practioner
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
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist with Group Work Experience to join the Neighbourhood Mental Health Team in Worthing and Adur, covering the coastal area.
This role will be based in Adur, but will be offering Group Interventions to patients in the neighbouring community service in Shoreham. The role will delivers groups alongside 1:1 sessions for clients in secondary care.
The service provides a psychoeducational group program offering transdiagnostic interventions supporting patients with their recovery, but with a focus on the Complex Emotional Needs Pathway and Structured Clinical Management groups.
This role includes facilitation of psychoeducational, functional and creative groups.
The successful candidate will take a lead role in managing referrals for group work as well as supporting the daily running of the service across three sites.
This post offers the Trust's £2,000 Golden Hello or Relocation Incentive for Band 6 Nurses & Practitioners, (pro rata and subject to terms and conditions; please see attached Protocol Document for full details).
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for assessing patients (which includes assessment for suitability for the group work provision in the Service ), and providing individual therapeutic interventions to support the group work.
You will take a lead in the facilitation of groups and managing your own clinical case load, you will also have Lead Practitioner responsibility for a small caseload of patients requiring group intervention and 1:1 reinforcement sessions. This is an excellent opportunity to develop skills in working within a psychological framework, and facilitating and developing a group offer in the local NHMT's. The group practioner role provides an excellent supervision package to facilitate this learning.
This role will require you to process referrals and manage the team on a day to day basis. You will have supervision responsibilities and need to liaise with colleagues in the Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams.
Working for our organisation
We deliver interventions across the coastal patch, including: Adur, Arun and Worthing NMHT's. The post holder will sometimes be required to travel across sites.
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.
Your benefits:
- Access to full psychological support, via our internal wellbeing team
- Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
- Free parking on-site
- Access to a host of discount schemes
- A position within a trust rated as ‘Outstanding’ for caring and ‘Good’ overall by the CQC
- Excellent NHS Pension
- Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This role includes facilitation of psychoeducational, functional and creative groups.
The successful candidate will take a lead role in managing referrals for groups and manage the daily running of the service at this site.
You will also hold a caseload of service users with complex needs and will be expected to use evidence based / client cantered principles to assess, plan and evaluate interventions.
You will take part in staff development, training and supervisions, and a responsibility to supervise and support your team members.
You will need to be an experienced, reflective and enthusiastic practitioner, committed to working in a reflective team with a broad range of experience in the following: working with clients with complex mental health difficulties and their carers, facilitating groups, supervising staff, working within a psychological framework including formulation and using psychological interventions.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Occupational Health Therapist with current registration
- 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 managing a caseload
- Experience of planning, facilitating and developing group work
- 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
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
- Sian Gray
- Job title
- Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 304 0055
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