Staff Nurse - Inpatient Rehabilitation

NHS; Eastry; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health service provider is seeking a Band 5 Staff Nurse for their Inpatient Rehabilitation unit in Eastry. You will coordinate care for patients with complex mental health needs, manage staff during shifts, and ensure high-quality care provisions. Ideal candidates will be RMNs with prior experience in mental health settings and should possess strong communication and assessment skills. Join a dedicated team providing exceptional rehabilitative services.

Benefits

Exceptional professional development opportunities

Supportive team environment

Competitive salary

Qualifications

• Previous experience in mental health rehabilitation.
• Experience in writing care plans.
• Experience of working in CMHT/acute inpatients.

Responsibilities

• Manage the shift when on duty and coordinate the workload for junior staff.
• Administer and dispense medication and ensure patient safety.
• Champion recovery-oriented practice and facilitate therapeutic programs.

Skills

Mental health assessment skills

Supervision of junior staff

Medication management

Communication skills

Knowledge of Mental Health Act

Education

Registered with the NMC as a Mental Health Nurse (RMN)

Completed Preceptorship

Tools

DIALOG+

Job description

Go back Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Staff Nurse - Inpatient Rehabilitation

The closing date is 15 October 2025

An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Band 5 Staff Nurse within the East Kent Community Rehabilitation Service, at Rivendell.

Rivendell is situated in the village of Eastry near Sandwich 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 hours 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 caseload of clients and be expected to coordinate a recovery focussed, individualised plan of care; in addition to supporting the service users through the rehabilitation pathway.

Main duties of the job

• 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 orientated 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).
• Demonstrate good mental health assessment and intervention skills.
• There is a strong commitment to supervision, training and regular appraisal, which you will receive and deliver to named staff.
• Work as part of the MDT on the Unit.
• Demonstrate effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Have a good knowledge of physical health monitoring and documentation.

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 full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Registration

• Registered with the NMC as a Mental Health Nurse (RMN)
• Completed Preceptorship
• Evidence of relevant additional/post registration training

Experience

• Previous experience in mental health rehabilitation
• Experience in writing care plans
• Experience of working in CMHT/acute inpatients
• Experience in using mental health assessments/checklists e.g. HoNOS, GASS

Supervision

• Experience of workload management of junior staff
• Completion of supervision training
• Completion of mentorship training/experience of supervising students

Knowledge

• Demonstrates knowledge of best practice in rehabilitation
• Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of concepts of Recovery
• Experience in using the DIALOG+
• Experience of using specific Recovery focussed interventions

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