Community Mental Health Nurse.

Overview

If you are energetic, motivated to try innovative ways of working within in a multi-disciplinary team and have clinical skills that encompass urgent mental health and home treatment interventions then please consider applying.

The North East Kent Home Treatment Team is looking for a Registered Mental Health Nurse to join their team.

The community mental health nurse will carry a defined caseload of patients who have memory impairment and/or functional mental ill health.

The community mental health nurse is a key member of the multidisciplinary team and will have a continuing responsibility to assess, plan, deliver and evaluate care, communicate findings, influence change and promote health and best practice, patient safety and experience.

The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

Main duties of the job

To help manage a defined caseload of people who have functional and organic mental illness under supervision.

Carry out comprehensive holistic assessments which take account of relevant mental, physical, social, cultural, psychological, spiritual and environmental factors, in partnership with the patient and others through interaction, observation and measurement.

Work collaboratively with other disciplines, patients and their carers to agree a holistic person centred care plan that addresses the needs identified through assessment.

To deliver and evaluate safe, competent, person-centred care in partnership with the service user and their carers to support recovery.

Working for our organisation

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.

The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• A recognised professional qualification as a Registered Nurse (Mental Health) and NMC registration, or equivalent qualification for Occupational Therapy.

Desirable criteria

• Practice Educator/Mentor Qualification.

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience in acute mental health care.
• Experience in nursing a range of mental health conditions.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of individual & group work.

Skills

Essential criteria

• The ability to travel across a large geographical area 24 hours a day.
• knowledge of current best practice in providing holistic interventions to people experiencing an acute episode of mental ill health.
• knowledge of and ability to apply relevant legislative frameworks and policies relating to care, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Safeguarding, Consent to Treatment.
• A robust understanding and ability to apply principles of risk assessment and risk management.
• Understanding of the impact of acute episodes of mental illness on the function and occupation of clients, family and carers.

Probation Period: New employees external to Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust are subject to a six-month probationary period.

To deliver an effective service, it is essential in some of our roles that you are able to travel between work bases in a timely manner.

Production of false or forged documents/qualifications in order to obtain employment is a criminal offence and will be reported to the Police.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check.
Certain roles are subject to criminal record checks called Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks. Therefore, you will be required to submit a completed Disclosure form to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

KMPT are signed up to NHS England’s Sexual Safety in Health Care Organisational Charter

KMPT takes a systematic zero-tolerance approach to tackle  any unwanted, inappropriate and/or harmful sexual behaviours within the workplace and in our care provision. We are committed to sexual safety which encompasses prevention, support and decisive action against perpetrators. We are committed to keeping you and our patients safe.

KMPT is creating an environment for equal opportunities for all, where we can ALL be ourselves.

In cases where we receive a high volume of applications for a post, it may be necessary to bring the closing date forward. Please submit your completed application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

Due to the high volume of applications received, it is not possible to respond individually to your application. Should you not hear from us within six weeks of the vacancy closing, please assume that your application has not been successful.

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