Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 354-AB-21025
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- East Brighton Community Mental Health Centre
- Town
- Brighton
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/01/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Community Nurse, SMI LCS Liaison Team
NHS AfC: Band 6
Come and join us
We’re looking for people who share our values of compassion, accountability and optimism to help us provide high quality care for the patients, carers, families and communities we serve. We specialise in NHS mental health and learning disability services and we’re proud to make a difference every day.
At SPFT we put people first. We’ll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. You’ll have opportunities to learn, grow and gain new experiences to support your career, with access to lifelong learning and professional development.
We actively promote flexible working and understand how important work life balance is, especially in healthcare. Whether it’s part time hours, hybrid working or flexible start and finish times, we’ll explore what works for you and the role.
We recognise that AI is becoming part of daily life and you may choose to use it to help prepare your application. We welcome innovation but ask that anything you submit reflects your own abilities, experience and voice. AI can support how you describe your skills and experience, but it should never replace your own words as we want to get to know you.
We’re shaping a workplace where ideas are encouraged, technology supports you and everyone has a voice in how we improve. If that sounds like the kind of organisation you want to be part of, we’d love to hear from you.
Job overview
The Severe Mental Illness Local Commissioned Service (SMILCS) have a vacancy for 0.8WTE (4 days per week) Band 6 registered mental health nurse.
We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic, creative, flexible and resourceful qualified nurse to join our team of community mental health nurses. A passion for working with people to support individual recovery goals and to work collaboratively with patients, carers, GPS and ATS staff is essential. You will also need to forge close links with other community resources and stakeholders.
After a period of treatment, many clients with severe and enduring mental health needs will be sufficiently stable to be discharged back to primary care from secondary care services. SMI LCS enables the ongoing care and support of these patients in the community and facilitates the throughput of people between primary care and specialist services.
Main duties of the job
Each person discharged to SMI LCS have a designated nurse to support them. The role includes provision of clinical support, guidance and training to G.Ps and practice staff involved in the medical management of SMI LCS patients, provision of specialist mental health step-down support to patients discharged from specialist Mental Health services to SMI LCS, improving the integration of physical and mental health care and personalised recovery orientated care planning for patients.
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).
Working for our organisation
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description document for full details on the role and responsibilities. Please contact Greg Coghlan, Lead Nurse ([email protected]) to arrange a discussion about the post if you are interested.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental health Nurse with current registration
- 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
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Greg Coghlan
- Job title
- Lead Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
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