Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Community Mental Health Nurse

The closing date is 09 July 2025

Job summary

Band 6 Nurse - East Sussex Rehabilitation Pathway (Hastings Hub)Are you a passionate and dedicated nurse looking to make a real difference in mental health care? Join our dynamic and innovative team at the East Sussex Rehabilitation Pathway Hastings Hub as a full-time Band 6 Nurse.

The East Sussex Rehabilitation Pathway provides specialist community and inpatient mental health rehab services for adults over the age of 18, living within East Sussex. We believe in providing outstanding quality, safe and effective care and treatment that everyone can be proud of.

The ward works closely with Community Rehabilitation colleagues as an integral part of theaward-winning East Sussex Rehabilitation Pathway.

In this rewarding role, you'll support individuals living with severe and enduring mental health conditions, guiding them through a recovery-focused rehabilitation model. You will hold a caseload of individuals with complex mental health needs, helping them to develop positive coping strategies that foster independence and personal growth.

Working collaboratively with a diverse multidisciplinary team, including psychologists, psychiatrists, occupational therapists, support workers, and third-sector partners, you will play a key role in providing holistic, person-centred care.

If you're ready to be part of an innovative service that empowers people to reach their potential, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

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 clinicalinterventions 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 theirfamilies/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.

About us

Join Sussex Partnership and you'll be part of an NHS trust that allows you to thrive and, in turn, thrives because of you. We believe in the vibrancy of our fantastic people. And how that leads to even better support for the people who use our services.

We provide specialist NHS mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services and care for people of all ages at home, in hospital and through our community services in Sussex.

Our purpose is tocollaborate, toprovideand tolead.

Collaborate- we collaborate with partners to join-up services and meet the needs of the local communities we serve.
Provide- we provide care for people with learning disabilities, mental health, and neurodevelopmental difficulties in Sussex, in collaboration with patient carers and families. As a specialist provider we focus on delivering safe, effective care and treatment, which leads to a positive experience for patients, carers and families.
Lead- we use our expertise and experience in learning disabilities, mental health and neurodevelopmental difficulties to provide leadership, advice, support and training to the wider health and care system.

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).

Date posted

25 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year Per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

354-AE-21157

Job locations

Cavendish House

Breeds Place

Hastings

TN34 3AA

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be an autonomous practitioner who will carry continuing responsibility for adefined caseload of service users by undertaking the following duties:To undertake assessments of individuals and their families in the designated care groupwith complex health presentations, including those service users presenting with higherlevels 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 thatthis is done in collaboration with the service user and carers. To regularly review riskfactors and make changes to the management of them as necessary.

To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust nursing strategy.To ensure that clinical practice is evidence based and consistent with relevant NICEguidelines and Trust policies and procedures.To provide supervision of junior staff and trainees where appropriate.To act within the NMC code of conduct at all times.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

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

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).