Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- 1 year (fixed-term)
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-WK0305
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Gravesham Council, Gravesend
- Town
- Gravesend
- Salary
- £50,008 - £56,908 per annum pro rata (inclusive of high-cost area supplement)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Rough Sleeper Mental Health Practitioner
Band 7
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. 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
KMPT has an exciting opportunity for an experienced mental health nurse to come and work with the WK and Medway Rough Sleeper Initiative service, which is expanding to include the Gravesham area.
The team work closely with the borough councils to enhance the homelessness services for vulnerable rough sleepers and those at risk of sleeping on the streets. The project provides the opportunity to tackle the ongoing needs of vulnerable rough sleepers who have fallen out of services, or who will not engage with traditional pathways of support and housing, often with chaotic lives and a history of offending, drug and alcohol use and being excluded from mainstream services.
With estimates ranging from 40%-80% of the rough sleeping population living with mental illness, it is a major contributory factor to people not being able to find or maintain a home. As rough sleepers average age of death is 43, we cannot let this need go unmet.
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).
Main duties of the job
- Carrying out regular outreach alongside homelessness staff to identify unmet mental health needs and make appropriate referrals.
- Visiting vulnerable people in our supported accommodation, housing first flats, or general needs accommodation, to assess if they have the right level and type of support around their mental health needs.
- Identifying where people need to be fast tracked into primary care services.
- Advising colleagues across the Rough Sleeper Initiative service and to our housing related support services regarding good practice.
- Taking part in two monthly rough sleeper counts in the early hours of the morning.
- Attending operational groups and panels to agree best use of housing resources available to meet the needs of rough sleepers.
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 for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.
At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered RMN
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post registration experience
- Previous experience of recovery focused service provision with individuals who have complex mental health needs, substance misuse and offending behaviour.
- Previous experience of working in a community team
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in with marginalised groups
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Specialist knowledge of dual diagnosis issues and experience of working within the mental health or substance misuse field, including with alcohol users.
- Strong leadership skills including negotiating and influencing skills
- Knowledge and understanding of Adult safeguarding
- Working knowledge of Mental Health Act 1983
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ellen Gould
- Job title
- General Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07468 718914
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