Community Mental Health Practitioner

The Dementia Care Home Support Team (DCHST) is a new service created to support people with dementia living in West Sussex who required increased support to facilitate a timely and safe discharge into a nursing or residential care home setting. The service also supports those who are at risk of admission/ readmission to any acute hospital in West Sussex; including University Hospitals Sussex (UHSx), Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH), Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust (SPFT), and Sussex Community Foundation Trust (SCFT).

Main duties of the job

As a Community Mental Health professional in our service you will be focussed on improving outcomes for service users, working creatively with them and their carers to co-create care and risk plans that will help them achieve their goals and live as independently as possible. The key to success in this role is often about building effective partnerships with GPs, Crisis services, housing and other third sector...