Job summary
Employer heading
Community Mental Health Nurse - Mental Health Together
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
What is Mental Health Together?
In Kent and Medway, the community mental health transformation has created a new service model called Mental Health Together.
It is a multi-agency offer, which means bringing all the services and agencies that support people with varying mental health needs much closer together. This ensures that people get the right care, without having to navigate service boundaries and without repeatedly telling their story.
Mental Health Together will add new roles, as part of a new joined-up model of care which bridges the gap that currently exists between primary (i.e. GPs) and community mental health (i.e. KMPT). It will treat people with complex mental health needs by:
- Providing someone with support in a person-centred, holistic way
- Removing barriers to access, and thresholds across services working together
- Involving service users and carers as equal partners in their care
- Building in involvement and co-production at all levels of service design delivery
- Delivering needs-led and personalised trauma-informed care.
NHS experience is not essential, so please do apply if you feel your skills and experience align to our requirements
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic mental health nurse who has a strong sense of initiative. You will be responsible for assessing our patients using Dialog+ and Trusted Assessments along with supporting our group-based interventions.
A Community Mental Health Nurse is a key staff member within the multidisciplinary care team and will have continuing responsibility to assess and plan (using Trusted Assessment and Dialog+) alongside the needs of the service user, liaise with our Clinical Pathway Leads following assessment, deliver group-based interventions, influence and drive change, promote health and best practice, patient safety and experience.
The Mental Health Nurse will be professionally accountable to the Executive Director of Nursing, and operationally accountable to the Matron / Clinical Service Manager.
Effective communication skills and self-governance are required. You will be able to demonstrate knowledge of high-level interventions & community assessment skills. Existing qualifications or a willingness to undertake training relevant to the post is expected.
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).
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
Experience
Essential criteria
- Registered on NMC
- Two-year experience at Band 5 or above in hospital or community healthcare
- Evidence of continued professional development, appropriate to the role
Desirable criteria
- Post-registration certificate ENB 998. Possession of specialist nursing or other relevant higher academic or skills focused awards
- Post-registration Mentorship/Practice Assessor qualification
- Dialog+ trained
Skills/Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good IT skills
- Good understanding of the principles of the Recovery Approach
Desirable criteria
- Excellent IT skills
- Understanding of interagency skills
- Previous experience in the field of work
- Trained in Dialog+
Person specification
Evidence of CPD
Essential criteria
- Additional Courses relevant to role
Desirable criteria
- Mentorship/Practice Assessor
Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- Qualification
- Relevant experience
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
- Jenny Botten
- Job title
- Operational Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01892 709211
- Additional information
Please see the Job Description for more details.
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