Senior Community Psychiatric Nurse - Community Rehabilitation
The Community Rehabilitation Service provides a flexible range of mental health interventions to help clients with complex mental health needs manage their mental health more effectively and remain in their own homes. The team works in close partnership with Social Care and housing providers to ensure each client has the necessary resources available to engage in their rehab journey. Across the Community Rehabilitation teams, the clinical team consists of Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Nurses, and VCSE Workers. We currently have exciting opportunities for enthusiastic and motivated Community Psychiatric Nurses to join our new West Kent Community Rehabilitation Service as the team's Senior Community Psychiatric Nurses. The successful applicants will care coordinate and provide rehabilitation nursing input to a defined caseload of individuals with complex mental health problems, delivering the therapeutic programme and providing support and supervision to other members of the staff team. The team delivers comprehensive, individualised treatment and recovery plans which include supporting clients to maintain their living environment and encouraging them to have meaningful roles and purpose within their local communities. Individuals will be expected to ensure the team is able to provide input between the hours of 08:00 and 20:00 according to the needs of the service, including working some evenings, weekends, and public holidays.
Main duties of the job
The Senior Community Psychiatric Nurse is a key clinical leader within the multidisciplinary care team and will have continuing responsibility to assess, plan, coordinate, deliver, and evaluate care, communicate findings, influence and drive change, and promote health and best practice, patient safety, and experience. The Psychiatric Nurse will be professionally accountable to the Executive Director of Nursing and operationally accountable to the Service Manager. 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).
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.
Person specification
Training, Qualifications and Registration
Essential criteria
RMN or RNLD Practice Assessor Completed Edward Jenner Programme Evidence of continuing professional development. Experience
Essential criteria
Significant experience at Band 5. Evidence of post qualifying continued learning. Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
Significant knowledge of and ability to apply relevant legislative frameworks and policies relating to care e.g. Mental Capacity Act. Knowledge and understanding of the NMC Code of Conduct. A comprehensive understanding and ability to apply principles of risk assessment and risk management. To be competent in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care. To pass medication and physical health competencies. Significant awareness of clinical governance and its relationship to clinical effectiveness and patient safety and patient experience. Effective organisational/planning and decision-making skills. Good knowledge and practice of IT skills. Enhanced leadership skills e.g. taking charge, delegation of duties, supervising others. To participate in Quality Improvement, Audits, Research, etc. Other
Essential criteria
To be aware and demonstrate the Trust values. To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area.
KMPT Staff Benefits:
NHS pension scheme
- Your employer pays 23.7% towards your pension and life assurance benefits. Annual leave for Agenda for Change 27 days for full time or pro rata if part time After 5 years NHS service: 29 days full time or pro rata if part time After 10 years NHS service: 33 days full time or pro rata if part time Plus bank holidays, that's up to 41 days - more than 8 weeks paid time off! Flexible working
- Covers job share, term time working, flexible shifts etc.
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The Community Rehabilitation Service provides a flexible range of mental health interventions to help clients with complex mental health needs manage their mental health more effectively and remain in their own homes. The team works in close partnership with Social Care and housing providers to ensure each client has the necessary resources available to engage in their rehab journey. Across the Community Rehabilitation teams, the clinical team consists of Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Nurses, and VCSE Workers. We currently have exciting opportunities for enthusiastic and motivated Community Psychiatric Nurses to join our new West Kent Community Rehabilitation Service as the team's Senior Community Psychiatric Nurses. The successful applicants will care coordinate and provide rehabilitation nursing input to a defined caseload of individuals with complex mental health problems, delivering the therapeutic programme and providing support and supervision to other members of the staff team. The team delivers comprehensive, individualised treatment and recovery plans which include supporting clients to maintain their living environment and encouraging them to have meaningful roles and purpose within their local communities. Individuals will be expected to ensure the team is able to provide input between the hours of 08:00 and 20:00 according to the needs of the service, including working some evenings, weekends, and public holidays.
Main duties of the job
The Senior Community Psychiatric Nurse is a key clinical leader within the multidisciplinary care team and will have continuing responsibility to assess, plan, coordinate, deliver, and evaluate care, communicate findings, influence and drive change, and promote health and best practice, patient safety, and experience. The Psychiatric Nurse will be professionally accountable to the Executive Director of Nursing and operationally accountable to the Service Manager. 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).
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.
Person specification
Training, Qualifications and Registration
Essential criteria
RMN or RNLD Practice Assessor Completed Edward Jenner Programme Evidence of continuing professional development. Experience
Essential criteria
Significant experience at Band 5. Evidence of post qualifying continued learning. Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
Significant knowledge of and ability to apply relevant legislative frameworks and policies relating to care e.g. Mental Capacity Act. Knowledge and understanding of the NMC Code of Conduct. A comprehensive understanding and ability to apply principles of risk assessment and risk management. To be competent in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care. To pass medication and physical health competencies. Significant awareness of clinical governance and its relationship to clinical effectiveness and patient safety and patient experience. Effective organisational/planning and decision-making skills. Good knowledge and practice of IT skills. Enhanced leadership skills e.g. taking charge, delegation of duties, supervising others. To participate in Quality Improvement, Audits, Research, etc. Other
Essential criteria
To be aware and demonstrate the Trust values. To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area.
KMPT Staff Benefits:
NHS pension scheme
- Your employer pays 23.7% towards your pension and life assurance benefits. Annual leave for Agenda for Change 27 days for full time or pro rata if part time After 5 years NHS service: 29 days full time or pro rata if part time After 10 years NHS service: 33 days full time or pro rata if part time Plus bank holidays, that's up to 41 days - more than 8 weeks paid time off! Flexible working
- Covers job share, term time working, flexible shifts etc.
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