Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Community Support Worker

The closing date is 14 September 2025

Job summary

Are you an Support Worker or Healthcare Assistant, with a motivation to work in mental health?

Would you thrive in a role where you work with a relatively small, but complex caseload?

If so, our Band 4 STR role in our the Brighton and Hove Community Rehab Team (CRT) may be the role for you!

Brighton CRT is seeking a highly motivated and skilled Band 4 STR worker full time (37.5 hours 9-5 Mon-Fri). This post involves occasional weekend working. Time owing for weekend work will be taken back during the week. We can negotiate flexible hours if required.

We are a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, a Psychologist, Psychiatrists, Support Workers, and a Pharmacy Technician. We operate creatively and flexibly, sharing responsibility for risk management to support service users with a primary diagnosis of psychosis. We run groups for service users and adopt a biopsychosocial approach.

The Brighton & Hove Community Rehabilitation Pathway offers high-quality, safe, and effective rehabilitation for adults with psychosis and complex mental disorders. The team collaborates with patients, supporting meaningful recovery, improving quality of life, and enabling social inclusion and participation in the wider community.

The service operates both short-term pathways, offering temporary community rehabilitation for up to 16 weeks, and long-term pathways, providing input for a minimum of 3 years.

Main duties of the job

The purpose of this post is to work as a member of the Community Rehabilitation Service across Brighton and Hove. The Brighton CRS works with individuals who present with complex needs, including severe & enduring mental health needs, substance misuse, forensic issues and housing difficulties and may have often had unsuccessful working relationships with mental health services in the past. The work we do with this group is so crucial and the job satisfaction we receive when we make a breakthrough with patients is incredible.

Your role will involve supporting Lead Practitioners with their relatively small, yet complex caseload. You will undertake duty tasks including supporting patients with rehabilitation goals, but also patients struggling to develop relationships with professionals, who may be in crisis and with medication related matters. Your role will also involve supporting with running of groups and providing long term social and practical support to service users by building up long term relationships with them.

Optionally, we would like a support worker who is willing to undertake venepuncture training and support with physical health checks.

About us

The Trust provides mental health and learning disability care for all ages across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.

Living & Working in Brighton:

Be spoilt for choice with Brighton's iconic seafront, vibrant lanes and array of shops and attractions

Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns on your doorstep

Embrace the outstanding natural beauty spots including the renowned Devils Dyke and South Downs National Park

We'd love you to join our Trust, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, recent staff survey results told us that 82% recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Key staff survey results include:

70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work

79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their team

77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles

Date posted

29 August 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£27,485 to £30,162 a year pa

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

354-AB-20973

Job locations

Community Mental Health Centre

Brighton General Hospital, Elm Grove

Brighton

BN2 3EW

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description document for the full details on the role.

If you are applying for a secondment, please ensure that you have prior agreement from your current manager.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description document for the full details on the role.

If you are applying for a secondment, please ensure that you have prior agreement from your current manager.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

NVQ 3 or equivalent, combined with a commitment to undertake continuing personal development
Experience working with people with mental health problems

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

NVQ 3 or equivalent, combined with a commitment to undertake continuing personal development
Experience working with people with mental health problems

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).

Additional information