Lead Practitioner, West Neighbourhood Mental Health Team

Sussex Partnership; Hove; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust is seeking a Band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioner to join their Neighbourhood Mental Health Team at Mill View Hospital in Hove. This diverse role involves supporting service users with severe mental health challenges through assessments and collaborative care plans. The trust values staff wellbeing, offering creative team-building activities and flexible working arrangements. Candidates should be motivated and resourceful, ready to work closely with other specialists and the voluntary sector.

Benefits

Tea and cake breaks

Structured fun-based away days

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Highly motivated individual with a passion for mental health.
• Ability to assess, formulate plans, and support individuals with severe mental health issues.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Conduct assessments and formulate plans for service users.
• Support service users with severe and enduring mental health difficulties.
• Collaborate with the voluntary sector and other specialist teams.

Skills

Enthusiasm

Creativity

Resourcefulness

Relationship building

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioner to join the Neighbourhood Mental Health Team (NMHT), based at Mill View Hospital. We are a friendly and welcoming multi‑disciplinary community team, which works with a range of different mental health issues. You will be part of a team that values staff wellbeing and morale with regular opportunities for gathering in informal ways such as monthly tea and cake breaks, as well as more structured but fun‑based away days held twice per year.

The successful applicant will develop their skills in carrying out assessments, formulating plans and supporting a range of service users with severe and enduring mental health difficulties. The service is looking to appoint somebody who is highly motivated, enthusiastic, creative and resourceful, and who has a passion for working with people and for developing good working relationships with carers. You will have the opportunity to forge close links with the third (voluntary) sector, as well as with other specialist teams within the Trust. This is an exciting and diverse role working with a whole range of different mental health presentations. Consider West ATS as a place to embed your learning, broaden your skills and develop your career!

The service operates Monday to Friday, from 9am to 5pm. The role will involve working from the team base, and across Brighton & Hove as required, with some flexibility around home working, dependent on the needs of the service. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health‑related benefits, which has a beneficial impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working – if it works for you and for the role, we’ll do our best to make it happen.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Juliet Smith – Job title: Team Leader – Email address: [e-mail] – Telephone number: 07388 227539