Senior Nurse Practitioner

Job summary
Spring Tide Intensive Treatment Day Service are seeking an experienced and dedicated Band 7 Mental Health Nurse to join our specialist Multi-Disciplinary Team. In this role you will deliver high quality, compassionate care tailored to young people navigating recovery from Anorexia Nervosa. You will oversee therapeutic interventions, shift co-ordination, physical health monitoring, meal supports, family work and help guide junior staff in a supportive, structured environment.

Main duties of the job

• Leading the day-to-day coordination of the unit
• Providing specialist nursing assessment, formulation and care planning.
• Leading all nursing tasks:
• Monitoring of physical health of young people with severe Anorexia Nervosa
• Meal supports
• Care co-ordination for a small case load
• Form part of a care team delivering this intervention.
• One to one work with young people.
• Be part of a multi-disciplinary team providing individual and groupwork
• Provide supervision and professional support to relevant colleagues.
• Support service development through service evaluation and audit,
• Keeping up to date with developments in the field.

About us
Sussex Partnership Trust provides mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.

Working in Sussex:

• Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns there's always new experiences to be enjoyed
• Embrace the city life with great access to visit Brighton and London
• With easy access to Gatwick and Heathrow and excellent railway links across the UK there is plenty of opportunity for adventure

We'd love you to join our organisation that is rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the Care Quality Commission. Our staff agree, with 82% of people in our recent staff survey telling us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Other key staff survey results include:

• 70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work
• 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work within their team
• 77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles

See the attached 'Partnership Perks' document for details about our benefits package.

Details
Date posted: 20 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year Pro rata
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 10 months
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 354-CS-21959-A
Job locations: Spring Tide, Aldrington House, New Church Road, Hove, BN3 4AG, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
The successful candidate would be responsible for leading the day-to-day coordination of the unit as well as providing specialist nursing assessment, formulation and care planning. This will include leading all nursing tasks such as the monitoring of physical health of young people with severe Anorexia Nervosa, meal supports and care co-ordination for a small case load. All members of the MDT will be trained in the Maudsley model of Family Therapy and form part of a care team delivering this intervention. There will also be one to one work with young people.

You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team providing individual and groupwork and will provide supervision and professional support to relevant colleagues. You will support service development through service evaluation and audit, as well as bringing new insights through research and keeping up to date with developments in the field.

Ideally you will have prior experience of working with eating disorders and experience of using therapeutic models associated with this client group.

Person Specification
Skills
Essential

• Educated to degree/diploma level with a relevant qualification or equivalent experience.
• Evidence of CPD
• NMC Registration
• Experience of working in Eating Disorders and demonstrable achievement in clinical practice
• Experience of managing staff
• Experience of providing professional support/supervision and motivation of staff
• Ability to provide and receive complex and emotive information with staff, service users, carers and other stakeholders
• An understanding of effective systems for integrated governance and the management of clinical and non-clinical risks.
• Ability to present information clearly.

Desirable

• Can use constructive criticism and openly seeks to review and reflect on own style and presentation.
• Resilient and self motivated with drive and vision that is able to work on own initiative and manage a range of priorities across competing agendas.
• Demonstrate the ability to work in a participatory way so that shared decision making and conversations around formulation/diagnosis and ongoing care are a collaborative endeavour with the people who access our service.

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.

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.

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

Employer details
Employer name: Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Spring Tide, Aldrington House, New Church Road, Hove, BN3 4AG, United Kingdom
Employer's website:

For questions about the job, contact:
Clinical Service Manager, Shelley Oakeshott, View email address on meeveem.com, View phone number on meeveem.com

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