Community Mental Health Nurse

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Neighbourhood Mental Health Team (Specialist Adults) for a registered Mental Health Nurse, who ideally has experience of working with individuals in a community mental health setting.

The Specialist Adults Service (previously known as the Assessment and Treatment Service) supports adults with complex mental health needs.

Your role will be to support individuals by meeting their mental health support needs within our integrated mental health system.

Ideally you will have finely honed clinical assessment skills and be a decisive and highly skilled communicator. The ability to work autonomously and under pressure will be a requirement. You will be supported by a team of multidisciplinary colleagues on a daily basis and have access to decision making spaces within the team where further discussions are required.

You will be joining a warm, friendly, highly supportive team of dedicated colleagues who work together to offer the best possible service to the people we support. In return, we offer access to training opportunities to assist you in realising your potential and achieving a greater degree of job satisfaction.

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).

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.

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 Specialist Adults Mental Health Team in a seaside town like no other, then we would love to hear from you. Hastings 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.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Becky Blackman Job title: Team Leader Email address: Sign in to view email Telephone number: 0300 304 0244