Triage Lead-Senior Nurse Practitioner

NHS; Hastings; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A local mental health trust is seeking a Senior Nurse Practitioner to lead within the Hastings and Rother Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams. The role requires substantial experience in community mental health, excellent communication skills, and the ability to collaborate with various stakeholders. The organization values staff wellbeing and offers competitive packages, including flexible working and generous holiday entitlement.

Benefits

Access to wellbeing and support programmes

Generous holiday entitlement

NHS Pension contributions

Flexible working patterns

Child care vouchers

Qualifications

• Substantial clinical experience in community mental health settings.
• Ability to manage a caseload of complex mental health needs.
• Experience supervising staff and students.

Responsibilities

• Lead triage and manage referrals into the ATS.
• Provide clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team.
• Demonstrate personal resilience in challenging situations.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Excellent communication

Risk management

Teamwork

Flexibility

Education

Registered Nurse with current registration

Degree/diploma level with specialist qualification

Mentorship Course

Job description

Overview

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Nurse Practitioner (SNP) to be part of our Hastings and Rother Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams (NMHT). You will be part of the clinical leadership team within the Assessment and Treatment Service (ATS) and take a lead with our Triage Team, ensuring the safe delivery and management of referrals into ATS. We are looking for a practitioner who can function well independently, within a multidisciplinary team and build meaningful working relationships with our partners and aligned services within our NMHTs. The ability to build trusting relationships, work collaboratively with, and have a sound working knowledge of stakeholders, including service users, families and carers, private providers and local mental health care teams will be essential. You will be joining a committed and dynamic team and will be fully supported and empowered to creatively develop many new ways of working towards building safe and responsive quality mental health services fit for the future. High personal resilience and a can-do attitude are essential. We would expect you to lead by example and be able to demonstrate our Trust values and behaviours.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will need to have substantial clinical experience within a community mental health setting, demonstrate leadership acumen, and be able to work collaboratively across a range of partners. You will have a strong sense of teamwork, be able to demonstrate how you have worked productively within a team and describe the values that matter to you. You will need to have a lot of initiative, creativity, flexibility, a good sense of humour, and to know how to engage with people to bring the best out of them. The role entails ensuring referrals into the ATS are triaged and managed within the agreed time scales and appropriate to clinical need. You will need to possess excellent assessment skills, as well as having working knowledge of mental health services and 3rd sector organisations. As this post is at the front end of our delivery service, you will need to have excellent communication and interpersonal skills to enable you to build trusting relationships with families, carers, local partners and within the NMHT. The ability to work flexibly in multidisciplinary and multiprofessional teams and in a range of settings is essential. The post holder will, in conjunction with other leads in the team, provide strong clinical leadership and expertise to the multidisciplinary team and NMHT, ensuring that high standards are maintained. They will work closely with the medical team to ensure effective patient flow and discharge management is maintained.

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 Lead in our team we can offer you: Access to numerous wellbeing and support programmes, Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for leadership training and development, Flexible working patterns, Reimbursed parking, Child care vouchers, Access to a host of NHS 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 (dependent on length of NHS service) starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays, NHS Pension contributions

Additional information

You will be expected to work across the Hastings and Rother NMHTs. This post is currently 9am - 5pm Monday to Friday.

Details

Date posted: 10 September 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 7

Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time, Compressed hours

Reference number: 354-AE-21185-A

Job locations: Cavendish House, Breeds Place, Hastings, TN34 3AA

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with current registration (mental health / LD/ Adult) appropriate to the job role
• Degree/diploma level supplemented by specialist qualification, training, experience, courses to masters level equivalent relevant to the care group
• Evidence of post registration training in relevant service area
• Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent

Knowledge/Experience

• Extensive post qualifying experience in community mental health settings
• Experience of supervising staff and students
• Able to manage a caseload of patients with complex mental health needs
• Comprehensive knowledge of interventions specific to service area
• Awareness of Trust policies and service specification

Main Responsibilities

• Possess excellent risk management skills and be confident in supporting others to manage risk
• Demonstrate personal resilience and assist colleagues in managing challenging situations
• Support colleagues in managing complex changes to meet service expectations and needs
• Provide line management and supervision to junior colleagues
• Provide specialist assessments and nursing interventions to patients within the care group
• Participate in review of clinical policies and guidelines
• Support and implement changes to practice; liaise with other organisations and professionals to promote communication and good practice
• Undertake audit activity and supervision to other staff in the service area

Disclosures

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and a Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service may be required.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see the NHS Careers website.

Employer details: Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Cavendish House, Breeds Place, Hastings, TN34 3AA