Job Description

The Chichester Neighbourhood Mental Health Team is looking for a Registered Nursing Associate who is trained in venepuncture, competent in completing physical health checks and has a passion for working in mental health.



We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated and skilled Nursing Associate with experience in working with a complex caseload. It will be your responsibility to coordinate and undertake physical health assessments for our Client Group with support from band 6 staff and medical staff. This will involve visiting and carrying out assessments in the community for hard to engage patients (with another member of staff). This post is for 37.5 hours per week. Your role may also involve other tasks around supporting and building relationships with patients, depending on your experience.



We are a well-staffed multi-disciplinary team made up of Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, a Psychologist, Psychiatrists, Support Workers, Peer Support Worker and a Pharmacy Technician. We operate as a team within a creative and flexible approach and provide shared responsibility of risk management to support our service users who have a primary diagnosis of psychosis. We run groups for service users and has a biopsychosocial approach to support.



Your role will involve supporting Lead Practitioners with their complex caseload, primarily around physical health checks. Your role may, at times, also involve undertaking duty tasks including supporting patients in crisis, with medication related matters and practical support to service users by building up long term relationships with them.



The Trust provides mental health and learning disability care for all ages across Sussex.



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

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