Community Psychiatric Nurse - Home Treatment and Rapid Response

Integrated Care System; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is recruiting a Community Psychiatric Nurse for the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team. You will deliver support to patients facing acute mental health crises, carry out assessments, and provide psychosocial interventions in a collaborative and compassionate environment. The role offers professional growth and the chance to make a meaningful difference in people's lives.

Qualifications

• Experience working in mental health services.
• Ability to prioritize casework and allocate tasks.
• Knowledge of relevant legislative frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Perform assessments for service users in crisis.
• Provide short-term psychosocial interventions.
• Coordinate shifts and lead the multidisciplinary team.

Skills

Assessment

Crisis intervention

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

Nursing Registration with NMC

Further training relevant to the role

Job description

Go back Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Community Psychiatric Nurse - Home Treatment and Rapid Response

The closing date is 16 July 2025

We are looking to recruit to our Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team. Working within the home treatment function delivering support to patients and their families using evidence based, profession specific and general mental health knowledge providing client centred, recovery orientated principles and practice for individuals, families and carers referred to the Service.

You will also work within the Rapid response function undertaking assessments 24/7 received from Urgent Mental Health Helpline as well as undertaking gatekeeping assessments. To work in accordance with Trust and Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team Policies and Procedures and the Care Programme Approach. To provide an alternative to inpatient admission treating patients in their home environment who are presenting in a crisis with significant distress.

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).

Main duties of the job

Working with service users referred to home Treatment team and Rapid Response Service

• To screen, and work with all newly referred service users experiencing acute mental health crisis providing assessment or short-term interventions until crisis is resolved
• To provide short-term specific psychosocial interventions for those who would benefit from crisis interventions
• To ensure documentation is reviewed and updated in line with quality improvement standards
• To shift co-ordinate lead the shift, allocate work to the wider MDT and prioritise workloads.
• To contribute to the planning and implementation of induction, training and education of students and staff.
• To contribute to the delivery of specialist/ professional training packages of in-service training and staff development when necessary.
• To fulfil the role of mentor/practice educator, maintaining own update training and ensuring responsibility for regular placement provision and ensuring supervision and written assessment of students whilst on placement.

About us

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 mission is what we set out to do every dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the futureTo 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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Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job description for further details for full detailed responsibilities of this role.

Person Specification

Training, Qualifications and Registration

• Registration with relevant regulatory body. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
• Further training relevant to the role

Experience

• Experience working in mental health service
• Experience of prioritising casework and allocation /delegation of tasks to others.
• Experience of liaising with a variety of stakeholders both internal and external to organisations.
• To be able to work a 24hr shift pattern including day shifts, nights shifts and weekend shifts
• Experience working within Crisis Home Treatment Team

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge of and ability to apply relevant legislative frameworks and policies relating to care e.g. Care programme approach, Mental Capacity Act, Safeguarding, Consent to Treatment.
• An understanding and ability to apply principles of risk assessment and risk management.
• Understanding of the impact of mental health crisis on lifestyle and function for clients, family and carers and common pharmacological and psychosocial treatments
• Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism at all times, especially in complex/challenging situations
• Ability to work autonomously and cooperatively as part of an interprofessional team.
• Ability to motivate, empower and enable others.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust