Independent Prescriber

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

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK seeks an Independent Prescriber to join their community mental health team. This role involves working closely with a Medical Team and providing care to older patients in clinics and homes. The ideal candidate must be a qualified Mental Health Nurse with additional NMP qualifications and possess a UK driving license. Excellent support and development opportunities are available in a diverse and inclusive environment.

Benefits

NHS pension scheme

27-33 days annual leave

Flexible working

Learning and Development opportunities

Confidential counselling service

Qualifications

• Must have experience working in community mental health.
• Experience in leadership and working in a leadership team is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Review patients and prescribe medication.
• Visit people in their homes or Care Homes for medical reviews.
• Provide training and advice to other clinicians in the team.

Skills

Experience in Nurse Prescriber Role

UK Drivers Licence and access to a car

Good IT skills

Education

Qualified Mental health Nurse

Qualified NMP

Job description

Overview

Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity 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 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.

Base for this job is Coleman House in Dover; role will involve working across locality including Folkestone and Deal.

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 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).

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

Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main responsibilities of the role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

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

Skills

Essential criteria

• UK Drivers Licence and access to a car

Desirable criteria

• Good IT skills

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working in community mental health

Desirable criteria

• Experience of leadership and working in a leadership team

KMPT Staff Benefits

NHS pension scheme: Your employer pays 23.7% towards your pension and life assurance benefits.

• Annual leave for Agenda for Change: 27 days for full-time staff, pro rata if part-time. After 5 years: 29 days; after 10 years: 33 days; plus bank holidays (up to 41 days total).
• Earned rights like option to buy/sell annual leave.
• Recommend a friend campaign: £1000 if a friend is recruited.
• Flexible working, statutory and occupational leave, and other paid/unpaid leave.
• Staff Support: confidential counselling service.
• NHS discounts and shopping vouchers.
• Learning and Development opportunities, coaching and mentoring.
• Induction: comprehensive programme (2 days to 4 weeks).

Induction and additional notes: KMPT is committed to supporting all new staff with an induction programme tailored to role.

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