Job summary
- Main area
- Community Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 33 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-EK173
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Coleman House
- Town
- Dover
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/07/2024 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’re offering an exciting opportunity to work with the South Kent Coastal Community Mental Health service for older people (CMHSOP). We’re looking for a band 6 community mental health nurse to work with clients who have reached older age and are experiencing mental health difficulties such as depression, psychosis and complex emotional needs. We also provide a memory assessment service and offer specialist interventions for people with a diagnosis of dementia that have complex needs.
Your role within the team would be varied allowing plenty of opportunity to both demonstrate and develop your skills as well as offering a dynamic working life. You will have a caseload of clients which would involve monitoring and assessment of mental health, risk and co-ordinating treatment plans. This also involves providing support to carers and loved ones. You will additionally be involved in cognitive assessments and supporting the team’s duty system, as required.
This role offers an excellent opportunity to develop organisational skills and clinical confidence. As a band 6 clinician you will be working autonomously but you will have access to the support of admin, mental health support workers, psychologists, consultant psychiatrists in addition to our nursing and occupational therapy staff. We work very closely as a team providing plenty of opportunity to discuss clinical cases and risk.
Main duties of the job
- Conducting initial assessments of people with memory and mental health needs
- Being part of the Duty team
- Managing a caseload of clients
- Being part of team meetings and MDT discussions
- Supporting and being a role model for junior colleagues
- Supervision of a junior colleague
- Taking on a lead role in the team
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 across the county.
The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Good IT skills
- Ability to travel across the locality in a timely manner
- Organisational skills
- Experience of and passion for working with people with Dementia
- Knowledge and/or experience of common mental health conditions
- Motivation to achieve high quality care and good team work
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Relevant formal Vocational qualification e.g. First level nursing registration RMN
Desirable criteria
- Minimum of 6 months post registration experience
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel across the locality in a timely manner
Desirable criteria
- Good IT skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in or knowledge around mental illness and Dementia
Desirable criteria
- Experience of caseload management or being named professional
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered with relevant regulatory body
Desirable criteria
- Ability to travel across the area in a timely manner
Experience
Essential criteria
- At least 2 years post registration
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with Older adults
- Knowledge of suitable assessment tools
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
- Mark Simpson or Jackie Keane
- Job title
- Operational Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01304 216664
- Additional information
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