Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to work across all areas of mental health liaison: working age, older adults, and patients with organic brain disorders. It is a dynamic and fast paced role for a registered and experienced mental health nurse who can work as both a core member of the MDT and also an autonomous practitioner to achieve the best outcomes for people of working and older age referred to our service by The Princess Royal Hospital for assessment of their presenting mental health need and associated risks.

You will be working at the interface between physical and psychological health and bring your knowledge and expertise to your general hospital colleagues. You will work within our MDT in order to provide specialist assessment, treatment and discharge planning to those patients with functional and organic mental health conditions.

Main duties of the job
We support patients referred to our service with a wide range of physical and psychological co-morbidities including those people presenting to mental health services for the very first time.

You will need to be able to work autonomously and have excellent communication skills and be able to foster excellent relationships with patients, carers, general hospital colleagues and other parts of the health and social care system.

We offer comprehensive biopsychosocial mental health assessments for all mental health presentations for people aged over 18. We work in collaboration with people referred to our service and their loved ones by offering timely interventions to support those presenting in crisis.

The post holder will need to be able to work flexible shifts to support the delivery of our 24/7 service.

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).

About us
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health, learning disability and neurodevelopmental services to people living in south east England.

Job responsibilities
The role of the Urgent Care Practitioner is to prioritise and respond to the needs of service users in the designated care group with complex health presentations, developing their care plans and recovery plans to enable them to lead fulfilling lives. The post holder will carry out psychosocial assessments, including risk assessment and formulate clinically appropriate onward plans of care, providing specialist mental health advice, support and interventions to staff, carers and patients and other agencies. The post holder will always work to promote the safety and the wellbeing of service users and their families/carers.

Please see job description attached for more detail.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Mental Nurse
• Mentorship, ENB 998 or level 3 module in teaching and assessing in clinical practice

Knowledge/Experience
Essential

• Knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act (2005) and DOL's
• Knowledge of the MHA (1983/2007)

Analytical & Judgement skill
Essential

• Excellent clinical skills

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Contact: Team Lead, Jonathan Barrett, jonathan.barrett1@nhs.net, 01444441881

Closing date: 28 July 2026