Physical Health Nurse

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust; Royal Tunbridge Wells; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a Senior Physical Health Nurse in the South West Kent Community Mental Health Team. This role involves leading a dedicated team, ensuring high-quality care, and mentoring staff while addressing the physical health needs of service users in a community setting.

Qualifications

• Experience within acute mental health services.
• Registered Nurse with NMC registration.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and make recommendations to the care plan process.
• Mentor, supervise, and line manage staff.
• Assess, act on, and report any safeguarding concerns.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Assessment

Education

Nurse and NMC registration

Job description

Job overview
Are you an experienced and ambitious Physical Health Nurse ready to take on a leadership role and make a significant impact?
Join Our Team at Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust as a Senior Physical Health Nurse in the South West Kent Community Mental Health Team!
We are seeking a dedicated and proactive Physical Health Nurse to join our valued team within the SWK CMHT. We are committed to providing exceptional, integrated physical and mental health care to individuals across South West Kent. This role offers the opportunity to lead and mentor a team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality physical health services to our service users within the community mental health setting.
About the Role:
As a Physical Health Nurse in the SWK CMHT, you will:

• Coordinate and make recommendations to the care plan process: Ensuring comprehensive and effective care plans are developed and implemented, aligning with Trust standards and the specific needs of the CMHT.
• Mentor, supervise, and line manage staff: Providing leadership, guidance, and support to your team within the SWK CMHT, fostering a positive and productive work environment within the Trust's framework.
• Assess, act on, and report any safeguarding concerns: Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of our service users within the SWK CMHT by adhering to the Trust's safeguarding policies and procedures.

Job overview
Are you an experienced and ambitious Physical Health Nurse ready to take on a leadership role and make a significant impact?
Join Our Team at Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust as a Senior Physical Health Nurse in the South West Kent Community Mental Health Team!
We are seeking a dedicated and proactive Physical Health Nurse to join our valued team within the SWK CMHT. We are committed to providing exceptional, integrated physical and mental health care to individuals across South West Kent. This role offers the opportunity to lead and mentor a team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality physical health services to our service users within the community mental health setting.
About the Role:
As a Physical Health Nurse in the SWK CMHT, you will:

• Coordinate and make recommendations to the care plan process: Ensuring comprehensive and effective care plans are developed and implemented, aligning with Trust standards and the specific needs of the CMHT.
• Mentor, supervise, and line manage staff: Providing leadership, guidance, and support to your team within the SWK CMHT, fostering a positive and productive work environment within the Trust's framework.
• Assess, act on, and report any safeguarding concerns: Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of our service users within the SWK CMHT by adhering to the Trust's safeguarding policies and procedures.

Main duties of the job

• To coordinate and make recommendations to the care plan process
• To mentor, supervise and line manage staff.
• To assess, act on and report any safeguarding concerns.
• Promoting a healthy, safe and secure environment by adhering to Trust statutory health and safety requirements and maintaining confidentiality of information at all times in compliance with Trust policies, procedures, protocols and guidance.
• Acting as a role model and supporting new team members through demonstration and explanation of tasks and techniques.
• Facilitating, supporting and assessing staff undergoing personal and/or professional development.
• Undertake and maintain all essential training to role.
• Working confidently in a variety of environments according to changing service needs which present different challenges whilst continuing to act in a professional manner.
• Balancing all aspects of the job role across the 7-day working pattern.
• Being flexible and responsive to competing demands to ensure safe delivery of services.

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.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To work within the community mental health setting as a valued member of the multi-disciplinary team providing and contributing to high quality nursing care to service users with severe mental health problems.
• Be responsible for the risk assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of emotional and physical care needs for service users, and to be fully aware of the care needs of service users over a 24hour period.
• Monitor, report and maintain a healthy, safe and secure workplace by knowing and taking account of Health and Safety at work Act (1974), reporting of injury, diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations (1965), control of substance Hazardous to health (1985) European H&S Regulations (1992) and adhere to Trust policies and local services protocol

Please see the job description for more details.

Person specification

Qualifications and Experience

Essential criteria

• Nurse and NMC registration.
• Experience within acute mental Health services.

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