Independent Prescriber

NHS; Dover; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A community mental health service is seeking an Independent Prescriber to join their team in Dover. This role involves reviewing patients in various settings and requires a qualified Mental Health Nurse with leadership experience. The successful candidate will work alongside medical professionals to deliver quality care and develop training initiatives within the team.

Qualifications

• Full, valid UK driving licence and access to a car for business purposes.
• Experience of working in community mental health services.
• Experience of working in a leadership team.

Responsibilities

• Review patients and prescribe medication within scope of practice.
• Visit patients in their homes or Care Homes for medical reviews.
• Develop quality improvement and deliver training to clinicians.

Skills

UK Drivers Licence and access to a car

Experience in leadership

Experience in community mental health

Education

Qualified Mental health Nurse

Qualified NMP

Experience of working in a Nurse Prescriber Role

Job description

Overview

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) is seeking an Independent Prescriber to join a well established community mental health team for older people. The independent prescriber role is a new post within the team, so the successful candidate will be encouraged to work alongside medics and other leaders to develop the post and share ideas on how it is structured.

The closing date is 02 October 2025.

The team includes experienced Consultant Psychiatrists, an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) and other Independent Prescribers. The successful candidate will have clinical supervision and support to embed themselves into the team and build confidence in the role. The team also includes Nurses, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Support workers and admin staff. We are a close team and very supportive of each other.

We welcome staff who share our ethos of providing high quality mental health care to our patients and their carers, whilst also taking care of each other.

At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking a qualified Independent Prescriber with experience of working in Community Health services for Older People. The successful candidate will work alongside our Medical Team including Consultant Psychiatrist and Advanced Clinical Practitioner. The role will involve working in clinic to review patients and their current treatment and to prescribe medication within the scope of practice. The role may also involve visiting people in their own homes or in Care Homes to carry out medical reviews. The post will include a leadership role and the candidate will work closely with other leaders in the team to develop quality improvement and to deliver training and advice to other clinicians within the team. The base for this job is Coleman House in Dover, however will involve working across locality including Folkestone and Deal. 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 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 refer to the attached job description for full details of the main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Qualified Mental health Nurse
• Qualified NMP
• Experience of working in a Nurse Prescriber Role

Skills

• UK Drivers Licence and access to a car

Experience

• Experience of working in community mental health
• Experience of leadership and working in a leadership team

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