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Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust

About
We provide NHS care and treatment for people living in south east England. Our mental health services provide care and treatment for people with conditions such as psychosis, depression, anxiety, dementia and personality disorder. Our vision is to provide outstanding care and treatment you can be confident in.
Contact
- Address
- Swandean
- Arundel Road
- Worthing
- West Sussex
- BN13 3EP
- Contact Number
- 01903 843000
Triage Lead-Senior Nurse Practitioner
Accepting applications until: 28-Aug-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 28-Aug-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Cavendish House
- Cyfeiriad
- Breeds Place
- Tref
- Hastings
- Cod post
- TN34 3AA
- Major / Minor Region
- West Sussex
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Oriau
- Full time
- Compressed hours
Salary
- Cyflog
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Mental Health
Come and join us
We're looking for people who share our values (compassion, accountability and optimism) to help us provide high quality care to the patients, carers, families and local communities we serve. We specialise in providing NHS mental health and learning disability services.
So what can we offer you in return?
We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.
You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.
As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.
If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Nurse Practitioner (SNP) to be part of our Hastings and Rother Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams (NMHT). You will be part of the clinical leadership team within the Assessment and Treatment Service (ATS) and take a lead with our Triage Team, ensuring the safe delivery and management of referrals into ATS.
We are looking for a practitioner who can function well independently, within a multidisciplinary team and build meaningful working relationships with our partners and aligned services within our NMHTs. The ability to build trusting relationships, work collaboratively with, and have a sound working knowledge of stakeholders, including service users, families and carers, private providers and local mental health care teams will be essential.
You will be joining a committed and dynamic team and will be fully supported and empowered to creatively develop many new ways of working towards building safe and responsive quality mental health services fit for the future. High personal resilience and a can-do attitude are essential. We would expect you to lead by example and be able to demonstrate our Trust values and behaviours.
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The successful applicant will need to have substantial clinical experience within a community mental health setting, demonstrate leadership acumen, and be able to work collaboratively across a range of partners.
You will have a strong sense of teamwork, be able to demonstrate how you have worked productively within a team and describe the values that matter to you. You will need to have a lot of initiative, creativity, flexibility, a good sense of humour, and to know how to engage with people to bring the best out of them.
The role entails ensuring referrals into the ATS are triaged and managed within the agreed time scales and appropriate to clinical need. You will need to possess excellent assessment skills, as well as having working knowledge of mental health services and 3rd sector organisations. As this post is at the front end of our delivery service, you will need to have excellent communication and interpersonal skills to enable you to build trusting relationships with families, carers, local partners and within the NMHT.
The ability to work flexibly in multidisciplinary and multiprofessional teams and in a range of settings is essential.
The post holder will, in conjunction with other leads in the team, provide strong clinical leadership and expertise to the multidisciplinary team and NMHT, ensuring that high standards are maintained.
They will work closely with the medical team to ensure effective patient flow and discharge management is maintained.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do.
As a Lead in our team we can offer you:
Access to numerous wellbeing and support programmes
Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for leadership training and development
Flexible working patterns
Reimbursed parking
Child care vouchers
Access to a host of NHS discount schemes (including gyms, shopping, restaurants and cars)
A position within a trust rated as ‘Outstanding’ for caring and ‘Good’ overall by the CQC
Generous holiday entitlement (dependent on length of NHS service) starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays
NHS Pension contributions
Additional Information
You will be expected to work across the Hastings and Rother NMHTs
This post is currently 9am - 5pm Monday to Friday
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
• Registered Nurse with current registration (mental health / LD/ Adult) appropriate to the job role
• Degree/diploma level supplemented by specialist qualification, training, experience, courses to masters level equivalent relevant to the care group
• Evidence of post registration training in relevant service area
• Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
• Extensive post qualifying experience working in community mental health settings.
• Experience of providing professional support /supervision and motivation to staff.
• Experience of managing staff.
• Experience overseeing a caseload of patients with complex mental health needs.
• Comprehensive knowledge of interventions specific to service area.
• Have experience on leading the management of care for patients with challenging and complex presentations.
Main Responsibilities
Possess excellent risk management skills and be confident in supporting others to manage risk.
Be able to demonstrate personal resilience and skills in supporting colleagues to manage challenging situations.
Have confidence and drive to support colleagues in managing complex changes in order to meet service expectations and needs.
Provide line management and supervision to junior colleagues.
The post holder will provide specialist assessments and nursing interventions to patients within the care group.
Participate in review of clinical policies and guidelines.
Support and implement changes to practice; liaise with other organisations and professionals to promote communication and good practice.
Be able to undertake audit activity and supervision to other staff in the service area.
Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.
We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children’s social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.
Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Registered Nurse with current registration (mental health / LD/ Adult) appropriate to the job role.
- Degree/diploma level supplemented by specialist qualification, training, experience, courses to masters level equivalent relevant to the care group
- Evidence of post registration training in relevant service area
- Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
Knowledge/Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Extensive post qualifying experience in relevant service area
- Experience of supervising staff and students
- Able to manage a caseload of patients with complex mental health needs
- Comprehensive knowledge of interventions specific to service area
- Awareness of Trust policies and service specification
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Joy Mashawa
- Teitl y swydd
- Service Manager
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 0300 304 0244
- Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais
You are welcome to pay us a visit or to contact us for an informal chat.
Please contact the below Monday to Friday 9-5pm.For more information, please contact
Joy Mashawa (Hasting NMHT Service Manager)
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 0300 304 0244Llana Mchugh (Rother NMHT Service Manager)
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 0300 304 0244Chris Macey (Triage Lead)
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 0300 304 0244
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