# Community Mental Health Practitioner

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Worthing
- **Region:** South East
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Mental health professionals
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 09:00 - 17:00pm)
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-28T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-14T11:21:17.596Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Sussex/Worthing/Sussex_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v8153932
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8153932?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The Dementia Care Home Support Team (DCHST) is a new  service created to support people with dementia living in West Sussex who required increased support to facilitate a timely and safe discharge into a nursing or residential care home setting. The service also supports those who are  at risk of admission/ readmission to any acute hospital in West Sussex; including University Hospitals Sussex (UHSx), Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH), Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust (SPFT), and Sussex Community Foundation Trust (SCFT).

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).

### Main duties of the job

As a Community Mental Health professional in our service you will be focussed on improving outcomes for service users, working creatively with them and their carers to co-create care and risk plans that will help them achieve their goals and live as independently as possible. The key to success in this role is often about building effective partnerships with GPs, Crisis services, housing and other third sector providers.

We welcome applications for qualified mental health nurses  and Occupational Therapists.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The role of Community Nurse/OT 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/OT advice and carry out specialist nursing/OT procedures. They will provide clinical supervision to staff and students and act as a mentor for student nurses.

## Person Specification

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Registered Nurse/OT with current registration \[mental health/LD\], appropriate to the job role
- Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
- Evidence of continuous professional development

**Desirable**

- Experience of dementia either worked or lived
- Lone working

### Knowledge/Experience

**Essential**

- 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 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
- Understanding of clinical governance
- Previous experience of working in the community

## Documents

- [privacy notice (pdf, 127.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2254)
- [jd band 6 community (pdf, 267.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10453915)
- [dbs policy statement (pdf, 231.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2263)
- [b6 occupational therapist (pdf, 101.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10453916)
- [jd for dementia care home support team (pdf, 271.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10453913)

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