Job overview
The Transitions and Pathways Team (T&P) support adults with mental health rehabilitation needs to access and sustain the right treatment setting appropriate for their clinical and social needs.
This is a new initiative to improve placement stability in community settings for people in East Sussex who have been discharged from inpatient mental health services. This is a 12 month role working in the Transitions and Pathways Team but specifically in the East Sussex area.
The postholder will work with wider systems across inpatient and community teams and local authorities with the aim of ensuring that services work well together so that patients are less likely to be readmitted to inpatient services.
Main duties of the job
- Work with the East Sussex divisional operational clinical teams to identify patients requiring additional support to maintain their wellbeing in community placement.
- Develop relationships with a small group of community providers and undertake an analysis of their needs.
- Provider support, advice and guidance to community providers in order to improve confidence in supporting people with significant mental health needs.
- Develop relationships with East Sussex Community Mental Health Teams including but not confined to neighbourhood mental health teams, crisis teams and assist in their developing relationships with community providers.
- Work with the wider Transitions and Pathways Team to make a set of recommendations as to how improvements can be made in the East Sussex area to improve placement stability in the community.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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This advert is for Senior Mental Health Practitioner with Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in Worthing, South East, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Nurse practitioner role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 PA. The contract type is 12 months (Fixed term or secondment considered). The application deadline is 22 Jun 2026.
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