Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Registered Nursing Associate

The closing date is 08 June 2025

Job summary

Are you a Registered Nursing Associate with training in Venepuncture and experience of physical health checks,with a motivation to work in mental health?

If so, our Band 4 Physical Healthcare Worker role in our Neighbourhood Mental Health Team may be the role for you!

Crawley ATS are seeking to recruit a highly motivated and skilled Nursing Associate with experience in venepuncture. It will be your responsibility to coordinate and undertake physical health assessments for our Client Group with support from band 6 staff and medical staff. This will involve visiting and carrying out assessments in the community for hard to engage patients (with another member of staff). This post is for 37.5 hours per week. Your role may also involve other tasks around supporting and building relationships with patients, depending on your experience.

Main duties of the job

We are a well-staffed multi-disciplinary team made up of Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, a Psychologist, Psychiatrists, Support Workers, Peer Support Worker and a Pharmacy Technician. We operate as a team within a creative and flexible approach and provide shared responsibility of risk management to support our service users who have a primary diagnosis of psychosis. We run groups for service users and has a biopsychosocial approach to support.

Your role will involve supporting Lead Practitioners with their complex caseload and physical health checks. Your role may, at times, also involve undertaking duty tasks including supporting patients in crisis, with medication related matters and practical support to service users by building up long term relationships with them.

About us

The Trust provides mental health and learning disability care for all ages across Sussex.

We'd love you to join our Trust, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, recent staff survey results told us that 82% recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Key staff survey results include:o 70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at worko 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their teamo 77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles

Date posted

23 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,530 to £29,114 a year Per Annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

354-AN-20762-D

Job locations

218 Ifield Drive

Crawley

RH11 0EP

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description for the full details on the role. See below for further contact details;

Catherine Taylor

Team Leader

Crawley Neighbourhood Mental Health Team

c.taylor25@nhs.net

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description for the full details on the role. See below for further contact details;

Catherine Taylor

Team Leader

Crawley Neighbourhood Mental Health Team

c.taylor25@nhs.net

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register
Educated to a minimum level 5 Foundation degree level specific to nursing associate practice

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register
Educated to a minimum level 5 Foundation degree level specific to nursing associate practice

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).