Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 354-CS-21675
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Horsham
- Town
- Horsham
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 Pro-Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Project Worker (i-Rock Horsham District)
NHS AfC: Band 5
Come and join us
We're looking for people who share our values (compassion, accountability and optimism) to help us provide high quality care to the patients, carers, families and local communities we serve. We specialise in providing NHS mental health and learning disability services.
So what can we offer you in return?
We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.
You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.
As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.
If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.
Job overview
We are seeking to recruit a passionate, knowledgeable and dynamic Project Worker to join i-Rock Horsham District.
You will be part of an innovative and exciting safe space for young people, offering early intervention support to work with them at a crucial time in their lives - to help get them back on track and strengthen their ability to manage their mental health in the future.
As a Project Worker, your role will be to provide support during the opening hours of the project, conducting triage of young people who access the project and providing advice and resources through an offer of brief support. You will offer effective and appropriate signposting to other agencies and contribute to the development of approaches to work with young people with support needs including mental health, wellbeing, education, employment and training and homelessness.
Main duties of the job
- Engage calmly and with sensitivity and empathy to support service users in highly distressing or emotional circumstances.
- Carry out 1:1 sessions with Young People either through prebooked appointments or during our drop-in service
- To work in partnership with other agencies to gain the best person centred outcomes for young people
- To ensure all service users are aware of activities which may be of benefit to them and how these can be accessed
- To provide appropriate signposting and making onward referrals based on the needs of service users
- To provide a range of interventions and knowledge of evidence based models of practice relevant to the young people
- To respond to concerns that may be raised by schools, parents or young people aged 14 - 25
- Engage with and gather information from young people, relatives and patient records to develop an appropriate plan
Working for our organisation
Our vision is to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve.
We're working to achieve our mission and vision through our organisational strategy: people, prevention and partnerships. This involves:
- Joining up services in partnership across health, social care, housing, employment and education
- Creating and sustaining a collaborative, compassionate and caring organisational culture which promotes inclusion
- Using our resources wisely, which includes research, innovation and learning to develop new treatments and develop our workforce
- Promoting health, wellbeing and resilience within the communities we serve.
CAMHS services recognise that young people may be affected by challenges to their emotional wellbeing and mental health at all times. With this in mind our responses are required to be dynamic and needs led,. As part of our exciting transformation agenda colleagues may be required to work outside of the 9.5 working pattern .
This would be negotiated on an individual basis and as part of Sussex Partnership NHS trusts wider commitment high quality services, that are both flexible and accessible to all our users whilst supporting colleagues in pursuit of their own work life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Bachelor's degree at 2:2 or above, Level 6 vocational qualification or equivalent experience, in a related discipline such as Youth Work, IAG or Nursing.
- Evidence of a commitment to lifelong learning
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with people with mental health needs in a paid or voluntary capacity
- Experience running groups/activities
- Experience working as part of a team
- Experience of being supervised
- Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Elle Dyson
- Job title
- Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01403 885333
List jobs with Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust in Administrative Services or all sectors