Job summary

The Chichester Assessment and Treatment Service are looking for a Nurse Associate to join the team. We work with adults living with mental illness, supporting their recovery and helping them to develop skills and strategies to maintain their wellbeing. We are a dynamic and friendly team who will support you with your growth and development as a clinician. You will be offered plenty of support along with mentorship and clinical supervision from senior nursing colleagues, proactive managerial supervision and the chance to undertake training courses relevant to your professional practice.

Our forward thinking and supportive team will work closely with you to encourage you to develop your own specialist skills, knowledge and competence through participation, reflection, supervision and training and your development will be guided using the Trust's appraisal process.

For further details / informal visits contact :

Marylinda Gororo Service Manager 0300 304 0400

Main duties of the job

As a Nurse Associate in our service you will be working as part of a Multi-disciplinary team (MDT) including social workers, psychologists, nurses, occupational therapists and medics. You will work with people with severe and enduring mental health problems, providing specialist interventions and acting in the role of Lead Practitioner for a defined caseload of clients under the supervision of one of our Mental Health Nurses. We encourage knowledge sharing and teamwork so all team members are involved with the full range of best practice interventions. You will benefit from regular caseload reviews and we are currently developing family interventions within our service, with plenty of opportunities for you to become involved.

About us

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 Mental Health Practitioner in our team we can offer you :

• Access to full psychological and wellbeing support, via our internal wellbeing team
• Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
• Free parking on-site
• Access to a host of 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 (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)

To protect the health and safety of our staff / workers, patients, and those attending our sites, we encourage our workforce to get fully vaccinated against COVID

Job description

Job responsibilities

The nursing associate will : Promote health and safety maintaining best practice in health, safety and ideas with colleagues to improve care and suggest areas for innovation.Participate in audit activities being undertaken in area of practice.Contribute to the improvement of service by reflecting on own practice and supporting that of to legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines both local and national regularly attend workplace and staff engagement meetings and contribute positively to discussions about the improvement of care.Contribute to quality of care through Evidence Based Practice by participating in audits and research.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Knowledge / Experience

Essential