Main area: Forensics and Specialist Services Directorate
Grade Band: 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (shifts - days/ nights)
Job ref: 380-FR0461-E
Site: Fant Oast Town Maidstone
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/01/2025 23:59
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good.
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offers a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. 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.
Job overview
The Mental Health Nurse (RMN/RNLD) is a key member of the multidisciplinary care team and will be responsible for assessing, planning, delivering and evaluating care, communicating findings, influencing change and promoting health and best practices, patient safety and experience.
The post holder will be professionally accountable to the Executive Director of Nursing, and operationally accountable to the Matron / Clinical Service Manager.
Main duties of the job
* Act as, or train to become, a Practice Assessor. Support student nurses' learning and development through assessment and feedback.
* Comply with NMC registration, revalidation, and Code of Conduct standards.
* Support the implementation of nursing strategies and adhere to KMPT policies and values.
* Identify, report, and respond to safeguarding concerns.
* Prioritize patient safety through safe practice, risk management, and incident reporting.
* Provide holistic care, including education, medication management, and support for patients and their carers.
* Supervise staff, manage workloads, and undertake specific clinical responsibilities as required.
Person specification
Training, Qualifications and Registration
* RMN or RNLD.
* Qualified Practice Assessor (or working towards becoming a Practice Assessor if still in first year of registration).
* Evidence of training/further study/or prepared to within the addiction specialty.
Experience
* Experience of Mental Health/Learning Disabilities settings and or working with people with Mental Health/Learning Disabilities conditions.
* Previous experience of working within the NHS.
* Experience of Psychotherapies, counselling, group facilitation or motivational interviewing.
Knowledge and Skills
* Basic 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.
* Basic understanding in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care.
* To pass medication and physical health competencies.
* A basic understanding and ability to apply principles of risk assessment and risk management.
* Basic 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.
* Basic leadership skills e.g. taking charge, delegation of duties, supervising others.
* To participate in Quality Improvement, Audits, Research, etc.
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 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.
Additional Information
Your employer pays 20.6% towards your pension and life assurance benefits.
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!
Medical staff have national Terms and Conditions. Buying and selling of annual leave is also available as part of our flexible approach to staff benefits.
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.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check:
This post is 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 is committed to maintaining a safe environment for all staff and patients.
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