Community Mental Health Nurse

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust; Dover; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Community Mental Health Nurse to act as a clinical leader within the care team. Responsibilities include conducting assessments, coordinating care plans, and ensuring safe, person-centred practices. Ideal candidates should demonstrate empathy, adaptability in challenging environments, and possess a valid UK driving licence. This role offers an opportunity to impact patient health and safety significantly.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Good quality of life

Qualifications

• Ability to work in a challenging environment and adapt to changing care demands.
• Full, valid UK driving licence required.
• Experience in providing person-centred care.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive assessments considering various factors.
• Work with service users and care teams to create care plans.
• Deliver and evaluate safe, person-centred care.

Skills

Ability to assess and plan care

Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams

Empathy and care towards patients

Job description

The Community Mental Health Nurse is a key clinical leader within the multidisciplinary care team and will have continuing responsibility to assess, plan, coordinate, deliver and evaluate care, communicate findings, influence and drive change and promote health and best practice, patient safety and experience. The Community Mental Health Nurse will be professionally accountable to the Executive Director of Nursing, and operationally accountable to the Service Manager/Matron.

Responsibilities

• Carry out and coordinate comprehensive, systematic assessments which take account of relevant mental, physical, social, cultural, psychological, spiritual, and environmental factors, in partnership with 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

Requirements / Qualifications

• Be able to work competently in a challenging environment and adapt to changing care demands while demonstrating the highest levels of care and empathy towards patients
• 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)

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, with specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC and care for thousands of people in our hospitals and community settings. Our workforce is diverse and committed to providing excellent care to service users and their loved ones.