Main area: Adult Mental Health
Grade Band: 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 18.75 hours per week (9am - 5pm Monday - Friday. Flexible working considered.)
Job ref: 380-EK245-A
Site: Coleman House
Town: Dover
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata
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) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. We 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.
Job overview
Do you want to be part of something new and exciting, a person-centred mental health revolution?
Mental Health Together is a revolutionary initiative of multi-agency collaboration to deliver primary care services to the people of South Kent Coast, aiming to promote the meeting of all life domains affecting service users' mental health.
We seek a nurse leader with a proven ability to identify and utilise staff members' strengths to deliver high-quality performance. The ideal candidate is anyone interested in further developing their nurse leadership skills and influencing how mental health services are delivered in South Kent Coast during this time of service transformation. You will be offered support, coaching, and training to excel in this role.
In this role, you will be responsible for the nursing team delivering high-quality, person-centred assessment and intervention, using the clinical governance framework to monitor service quality and address areas of concern. Continuous development of the nursing team through training, education, and supervision (ideally trauma-informed approach) will be expected.
Main duties of the job
* Team leadership - recognising existing strengths in the team and utilising these. Maintaining morale and motivation. Development of team members to meet service needs and individual career goals.
* Workforce planning - working closely with other senior colleagues to recruit, retain, nurture and develop the nursing team.
* Clinical governance - setting clinical standards and monitoring compliance with these standards.
* Collaborative working with partner agencies and service users.
* Clinical assessment and offering short-term, evidence-based interventions.
Working for our organisation
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. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Benefits include:
* Annual leave allowance starting at 27 days per year (when working full time) + Bank Holidays.
* Access to the NHS pension scheme.
* Eligibility for the Blue Light Card (discount service for the NHS).
* Realistic flexible working options.
* Generous relocation package available to eligible staff.
Minimum Requirements
* Minimum 3 years post-registration community mental health experience.
* Experience of working with people with personality disorder.
* Supporting family and carers.
* Crisis resolution experience.
* Working with forensic cases.
Knowledge and Skills
* Recovery model and social inclusion.
* Working knowledge of MHA and Care Act.
* Good breadth of clinical nursing skills including psychosocial interventions and physical health.
* Time management and prioritisation.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and will require a Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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