Community Mental Health Nurse

Kent and Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust; Dover; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in the UK is seeking a Community Mental Health Nurse to assess, plan, and deliver care within a multidisciplinary team. This role emphasizes collaboration and clinical leadership, focusing on person-centered care for individuals with mental health needs. Candidates should hold a valid UK driving license and have experience in mental health care. Join a diverse team committed to providing excellent service to the community.

Qualifications

• Full, valid UK driving license with access to a car for business purposes.
• Experience in mental health care.
• Ability to deliver person-centered care.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive assessments considering various factors.
• Collaborate to create person-centered care plans.
• Evaluate and deliver safe care to support recovery.
• Act as a clinical leader supporting best practices.
• Facilitate Quality Improvement initiatives.

Skills

Assessment skills

Collaboration

Clinical leadership

Job description

Overview

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.

This is across all aspects of the role in a flexible manner, demonstrating the trust values.

This post can be based out of Dover or Folkestone Services.

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 the service user and others through interaction, observation and measurement
• Work collaboratively with other disciplines, the 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

• 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).

About KMPT

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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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Hayley Pheiffer, Job title: Operational Team Manager, Email address: [e-mail], Telephone number: 01304216666