Job summary
- Main area
- Community Mental Health Nurse
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday. 9am-5pm)
- Job ref
- 380-NK222
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sittingbourne Memorial Hospital, Sittingbourne
- Town
- Sittingbourne
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Community Psychiatric Nurse
Band 6
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
We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Mental Health Nurse who has a strong sense of initiative and an excellent team working ability.
Effective communication skills and self-governance are required. You will be able to demonstrate knowledge of high-level interventions & community assessment skills.
We are a community service for working with clients experiencing mental health needs. We also provide support and advice to professionals, care homes and carers.
We provide comprehensive multi-disciplinary services and work closely with local specialist mental health teams, primary care, local statutory and non-statutory agencies, service users & carers.
Our team comprises Consultant Psychiatrists, Community Psychiatric Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioners, Support Workers and Administrative staff.
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
Carry out and coordinate comprehensive, systematic nursing assessments which take account of relevant mental, physical, social, cultural, psychological, spiritual, and environmental factors, in partnership with the service user and others through interaction, observation and measurement.
Work collaboratively with other disciplines, service user and their carers to agree a holistic person-centred care plan that addresses the needs identified through assessment.
Deliver and evaluate safe, person centred care in partnership with the service user and their carers to support recovery.
Act as a clinical leader supporting best practice in line with NICE guidance.
Facilitate and review approved Quality Improvement initiatives within the care setting.
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 see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in RMN
- Experience of working in a health or social care setting
- Experience of working in community setting
Desirable criteria
- Experience within working age and older adults
- Experience in dealing with Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act
- Experience of working with people suffering from functional mental illness
Training, Qualifications and Registration
Essential criteria
- RMN or RNLD.
- Practice Assessor
- Completed preceptorship
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Completed Edward Jenner Programme
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Chido Nyarumbu
- Job title
- Operational Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01795 504959
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