NHS workers from Sussex have become stars of a national campaign.

Mental health nurses and healthcare workers from the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust are sharing their stories about what they do and what their jobs mean to them as part of a recruitment drive.

The trust provides specialist health services for adults and young people with mental health problems, learning disabilities and drug or alcohol addiction.

It has a number of vacancies for specialist learning disability nurses and support staff based with the learning disability team in Worthing.

There are also vacancies for nurses, occupational therapists and social workers within the children and young people’s team as well.

Thirty staff, including nurses, occupational therapists, support workers and psychologists from across the two services have become the faces of the new recruitment campaign.

Their stories are being told across social media, at recruitment fairs around Britain and in local communities in a bid to attract more people to join them and work for the trust.

Senior support worker Alison Freeth and consultant nurse Una Hobson both feature in the campaign.

Ms Hobson said: “There is a genuine commitment from everyone to providing the best care and to moving things forward. "The bottom line here is ‘if it’s not good enough for my own family, then it’s not good enough'.”

Trust chief executive Colm Donaghy said: “It makes absolute sense to me that our own staff should be the ones at the forefront of recruiting new people to join us.

“Every single day they come to work and make a huge difference to the lives of people who are suffering from a range of sometimes really complex mental health problems.

“They’re dedicated, inspiring and absolutely committed to putting our patients at the heart of everything we do and delivering the very best care.

For more information, visit www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/join-us.