Mental Health Nurse

Are you passionate about helping people with mental health needs regain independence and remain living well in their own homes? If you are, then this could be the perfect opportunity for you. 

Join our Joint Community Rehabilitation (JCR) Service and use your mental health nursing expertise to make a meaningful difference to adults across East Sussex, supporting recovery, independence, and wellbeing every day. Based on a strengths-based and reablement-focused approach, you'll be helping people achieve outcomes that matter to them. Dedicated short-term support for people with mental health conditions in the community to help them live an independent life at home is a new service offer from JCR and you can be part of this exciting new development. 

As a Registered Mental Health Nurse within JCR, you will provide specialist mental health expertise to support adults of working age or older people referred to our dementia and functional mental health pathways. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will support triaging referrals in accordance with referral criteria, undertake assessments, contribute to care planning and risk management, and provide professional nursing interventions to help people remain safely in their own homes and maximise their independence. You will also support colleagues through advice, guidance, and training, helping to build confidence and best practice across the service. 

We are looking for candidates who:

• Are registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
• Have strong experience assessing the mental health and support needs of working age and older adults with functional mental health conditions or dementia. 
• Can work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
• Have knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act, safeguarding, and contemporary mental health practice.
• Can communicate clearly and confidently with a wide range of people verbally and in writing.
   

Please download the Job Description and Person Specification for more information. 

This is a part-time position, 8 hours per week and we can consider the successful applicant working either one full day or two part-time days to complement their work-life balance and/or another job role. 

The role is Countywide and therefore requires you to have a full driving licence to travel within East Sussex. The office base can be in Lewes, Eastbourne or Bexhill to suit the successful applicant. 

To apply for this role, please follow the ‘Apply Now’ button above and upload your CV and a Supporting Statement. When writing your supporting statement, please explain how you meet the essential criteria in the Person Specification, drawing on your relevant work experience, professional qualifications, education, and personal achievements.

If you have access to SystmOne through other employment you intend to retain, please do advise this in your application as this would be beneficial if in the post. 

For guidance on how to write an application see our how to apply page  and our statement on the use of AI.