Job overview
We're looking for a dynamic and motivated Band 5 RMN Nurse to work on Chartwell Ward. We are currently an 18-bed female Younger Adults Acute inpatient service. We are looking for a hard-working, kind, caring, compassionate individual to help make our patients feel heard and valued.
The Acute Services serves the community of Kent with assessment and treatment of adults of working age who are suffering from acute mental illnesses. This is a challenging yet rewarding environment and requires excellent organisation skills and the ability to use initiative, as well as working effectively within an experienced and knowledgeable nursing and medical team.
Main duties of the job
1. Carry out comprehensive, systematic nursing assessments that 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.
2. Work collaboratively with other disciplines, patients, and their carers to agree on a holistic person-centred care plan that addresses the needs identified through assessment.
3. To deliver and evaluate safe, competent patient-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 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and the main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* RMN or equivalent
* Completion of a preceptorship programme
* Evidence of post qualification personal and practice development
Experience
Essential criteria
* Pre-registration experience of mental health settings and/or working with people with mental health conditions
* Experience of working within an acute mental health setting
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
* Knowledge and experience in working with patients detained under the MHA 1983 (amended 2007)
* Basic knowledge of and ability to apply relevant legislative frameworks and policies relating to care e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Safeguarding, Consent to Treatment.
* A basic understanding and ability to apply principles of risk assessment and risk management.
* Effective organisational/planning and decision-making skills.
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, increasing with NHS service.
* Flexible working - Covers job share, term time working, flexible shifts etc.
* Staff Support - KMPT offers a face-to-face counselling service for any issues not just work-related problems.
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