Community Mental Health Practitioner

Hill Rise Assessment and Treatment Service in Newhaven is part of a lively multi-disciplinary service for adults with severe mental illness. The service sits within the beautiful landscape of the South Downs National Park and is only a few miles from the cosmopolitan city of Brighton. Over the next five years, our community mental health services are undergoing a huge transformation as we move to a more integrated network of services, with our mental health teams being central in driving the changes.

Main duties of the job

As a Community Mental Health professional in our service, you will be focused 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.

We welcome applications for qualified mental health nurses, Social workers, and Occupational Therapists.

About us

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, Social Worker, or OT 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.
• Flexible working patterns.
• 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).

This post offers the Trust's £2,000 Golden Hello or Relocation Incentive for Band 5-6 Nurses & Practitioners, (pro rata and subject to terms and conditions; please see attached Protocol Document for full details).

Job 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 to 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 procedures. They will provide clinical supervision to staff and students and act as a mentor for student nurses.

Person SpecificationQualifications

• 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

• 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.
• Experience of working within the CPA process.
• Understanding of clinical governance.
• Previous experience of working in the community.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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