Community Psychiatric Nurse

Kent and Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading mental health service as a Community Psychiatric Nurse, focusing on older adults with mental health needs. You'll provide specialized care, promote wellbeing, and work within a supportive team dedicated to delivering exceptional mental health services.

Qualifications

• Experience in working with older adults.
• Ability to manage medications and monitor effects.
• Skills in cognitive and memory assessments.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist mental health care for complex needs.
• Promote wellbeing and recovery interventions.
• Assess and monitor physical health needs.

Skills

Mental Health Care

Intervention Skills

Communication

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse

Job description

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Are you looking to work in an intervention led service to promote wellbeing among older adults with mental health diagnoses? We are looking for Mental Health Nurses to be aligned to our older adult pathways of care which deliver memory assessments and intervention-based care for people with serious mental illness and/or dementia with associated behavioural or psychological needs.

West Kent MHT+ is a diverse multi-cultural team that is looking to recruit a Band 6 Mental Health Nurse with experience in working with older adults. The successful applicant is to work within the team providing specialist mental health care for people with multiple and complex needs by offering interventions that promote wellbeing and recovery within an adult all-age service.

If you are interested in developing your skills and delivering clinical care for people with dementia and/or complex emotional difficulties, depression, psychosis and other mental health presentations we are the team for you.

Full training and support will be provided to ensure that you have the skills and confidence to deliver.

• To act as a Practice Assessor.
• To adhere to the NMC registration and revalidation requirements.
• To adhere to KMPTs policies, procedures and guidelines.
• To support and behave in a way that upholds KMPT Trust values.
• To assess, act on and report any safeguarding concerns.
• To optimise health and wellbeing; promoting self -care where possible, helping people to make choices about their needs and involve their carers where appropriate.
• You may be required to manage, administer medications and monitor their effects.
• You may be required to carry out specific duties relevant to the setting of community care depot and clozapine clinics.
• To provide interventions to promote recovery.
• To assess risk and identify client’s needs.
• To assess and monitor complex physical health needs.
• To undertake or assist with cognitive and memory assessments.
• To join work with other agencies involved in the client’s care, i.e. care homes, dementia support services, etc.
• Recording and reporting accurately any changes related to the patient’s current behaviour and risks using red board meetings daily or to team managers and/or medics.
• Recording care given in a timely manner as per professional and local standards using approved KMPT systems.
• To supervise a range of other staff and their activities as delegated.
• Acting as a role model and supporting new team members through demonstration and explanation of tasks and techniques.
• Undertake and maintain all essential training to role
  
  

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.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lisa Eagles Job title: Operational Team Leader Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01622766900

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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