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Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
About
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.
Our vision is simple: We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s doing well together.
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Community Psychiatric Nurse
Accepting applications until: 18-Dec-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 18-Dec-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Highlands House, Tunbridge Wells
- Address
- Calverley Park Gardens
- Town
- Tunbridge Wells
- Postcode
- TN1 2JN
- Major / Minor Region
- Kent
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Community Mental Health
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
Are you looking to work in an intervention led service to promote recovery in Mental Health?
South West Kent MHT is a diverse multi-cultural team that is looking to recruit a Band 6 Mental Health Nurse. The successful applicant is to work within the team, providing specialist mental health care for people with multiple and complex needs by offering interventions that promote recovery
If you are interested in developing your skills and delivering clinical care for people with complex emotional difficulties, depression, psychosis and other mental health presentations we are the team for you.
Full training and support will be provided to ensure that you have the skills and confidence to deliver.
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- To act as a Practice Assessor.
- To adhere to the NMC registration and revalidation requirements.
- To adhere to KMPTs policies, procedures and guidelines.
- To support and behave in a way that upholds KMPT Trust values.
- To assess, act on and report any safeguarding concerns.
- To optimise health and wellbeing; promoting self -care where possible, helping people to make choices about their needs and involve their carers where appropriate.
- You may be required to carry out specific duties relevant to the setting of community care.
- To provide interventions to promote recovery.
- To assess risk and identify client’s needs.
- To join work with other agencies involved in the client’s care.
- Recording and reporting accurately any changes related to the patient’s current behaviour and risks
- Recording care given in a timely manner as per professional and local standards using approved KMPT systems.
- To supervise a range of other staff and their activities as delegated.
- Acting as a role model and supporting new team members through demonstration and explanation of tasks and techniques.
- Undertake and maintain all essential training to role
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 in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
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.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details.
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).
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Training, Qualifications and Registration
Essential criteria
- NMC registered
- Qualified in mental health or learning disability nursing
- Completed preceptorship
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience at Band 5.
- Evidence of post qualifying continued learning.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within the NHS.
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
- 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.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to support and develop an environment which ensures effective clinical care and innovation.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Louise Nixon
- Job title
- Operational Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07707138569
- Additional information
Bonita King - Service Manager
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