Community Mental Health Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 27/08/2026
- Closes
- 09/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Community Mental Health Practitioner within the Dementia Care Home Support Team (DCHST) in West Sussex. The service supports people with dementia in care homes or at risk of hospital admission/readmission. You will work with service users and carers to develop care and risk plans, aiming to improve outcomes and promote independent living. The role involves building partnerships with GPs, Crisis services, housing, and other third-sector providers.
Essential criteria
- 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 criteria
- Experience of dementia either worked or lived
- Lone working
- Knowledge/Experience
- 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
- 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
- Experience of dementia either worked or lived
- Lone working
- Knowledge/Experience
- 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
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Community Mental Health Practitioner
The closing date is 09 September 2026
Job summary
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.
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