Welcome from our Chief Executive

Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Job overview

The service provides assessment and treatment to clients with functional and organic mental health issues. The service operates seven days a week from 08:30 to 19:00 hrs and staff are required to work shift patterns across the week.

The successful candidate will be providing specific interventions to clients in their home setting. They will be able to demonstrate a range of assessment tools and a comprehensive knowledge of mental health interventions to older adults with age related complex mental health needs and to adults of any age with dementia.

The successful candidate will have good communication and people skills, a person-centred recovery approach and enjoy working as part of a supportive multi-disciplinary team.

Ideally the successful candidate will have expertise in working with older people with a range of mental illnesses.

The ability to travel across the trust is essential for this role.

In return for your skills and enthusiasm we can offer you interesting and rewarding work in a team that prides itself with providing peer support, a practice development programme to support continuing professional development, monthly psychological formulation of complex cases and regular supervision.

Working within the team you would be encouraged to develop your own specialist skills, knowledge and competence through participation, reflection, supervision and training and your development will be guided using the Trusts appraisal process.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will act as a senior member of the IST and oversee all operational oversight of the clinical caseload. You will be required to complete comprehensive risk assessments and formulate care plans and be responsible for allocating casework to team members. You will demonstrate an ability to liaise with professionals across services and support carers and family members. Candidates will also be required to participate in the older adults service duty rota, provide consultation and where needed attend urgent home visits to inform on the presenting risks to service users.

To protect the health and safety of our staff/workers, patients, and those attending our sites, we encourage our workforce to get fully vaccinated against COVID.

Working for our organisation

Here at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, we have a really strong set of values that imbue everything we do. Nurses are highly valued. If you work for us, you will be involved in bold and innovative service improvements and take part in researching new evidence based practices. You will be given every opportunity you need, to develop professionally; to enhance your clinical skills and to realise your potential. If you are newly qualified, you will join our excellent Preceptorship academy. We recognise that working in mental health can be stressful but we prioritise staff welfare, providing regular supervision, reflective practice, mentoring, and any other support that our nurses need to ensure their wellbeing.

This post comes with the Trust's 'Golden Hello' for band 5 or 6 Nurses of £2000* and all the following perks:

• NHS Pension contributions
• 27 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays
• Flexible Working patterns
• Child care vouchers
• Loads of NHS Discounts
• Employee Assistance Programme

*Golden Hello is either paid in salary instalments or to help towards accommodation/ relocation costs up to £2000, it is pro-rata and subject to terms and conditions. Please see attached Protocol document

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

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

Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.

We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children's social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.

Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.