Staff Nurse

Kent and Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust; Ramsgate; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS organization in Ramsgate is seeking a Band 5 Staff Nurse to join their East Kent Rehabilitation Service. The role involves providing individualized care for patients with complex mental health needs, coordinating recovery plans, and overseeing junior staff on shifts. This position offers a chance to work within a dedicated team committed to delivering high-quality care in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Exceptional professional development opportunities

Supportive work environment

Chance to work in a diverse team

Qualifications

• Must have a valid Registered Nurse qualification.
• Experience in managing care for patients with complex mental health needs is beneficial.
• Able to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Coordinating a recovery-focused, individualised plan of care.
• Managing shifts and delegating tasks to junior staff.
• Administering and dispensing medication.
• Championing recovery-oriented practice through therapy sessions.

Skills

Understanding of the Mental Health Act

Medication management

Recovery-oriented practice

Risk management

Effective communication

Empathy and compassion

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Job description

An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Band 5 Staff Nurse to join the East Kent Rehabilitation Service, at The Grove.

The Grove is situated in Ramsgate, and is one of 6 Rehabilitation Units across Kent, which provides specialist inpatient rehabilitation for individuals with complex mental health needs. The unit comprises of 8 single bedrooms and is staffed 24 hour a day, 7 days a week.

The multidisciplinary team provides a wide range of individualised interventions delivered by nursing, medical, psychological, occupational therapy and peer support clinicians. As a Staff Nurse, you would be the named nurse for a small number of clients on the unit and be expected to coordinate a recovery-focused, individualised plan of care, in addition to supporting the service users through the rehabilitation pathway.

• Work across a 24-hour shift pattern, 7 days a week.
• Manage the shift when on duty and coordinate the workload for junior staff delegation.
• Have a good understanding of the Mental Health Act, Safeguarding frameworks and clinical documentation.
• Administer and dispense medication (Medication management).
• Champion recovery-oriented practice, to include group work, contribute to and facilitate the therapeutic intervention programme.
• Follow Health and Safety protocols and Policies.
• Risk Management and patient safety.
• Deliver effective and quality care alongside patients.
• Keep up to date with mandatory and CPD requirements (Trust Policy/NMC Revalidation).
  
  

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: Jess Kidd-Scott Job title: Unit Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07729229578