Staff Nurse (RMN)

Kent and Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in Maidstone seeks a dynamic mental health or learning disability nurse to join their team in Chartwell Ward. This rewarding role involves comprehensive assessments and collaborative care planning within a supportive environment, offering excellent professional development opportunities. Join our dedicated team committed to providing exceptional service to the community.

Qualifications

• Experience as a mental health or learning disability nurse or participation in preceptorship programme.
• Ability to carry out systematic nursing assessments.
• Competency in delivering patient-centered care.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive nursing assessments considering multiple factors.
• Collaborate with disciplines to create holistic care plans.
• Deliver safe, competent patient-centered care supporting recovery.

Skills

Teamwork

Organisation

Initiative

Job description

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Maidstone, United Kingdom

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Posted:

15.06.2025

Expiry Date:

30.07.2025

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Job overview

We’re looking for dynamic and motivated mental health or learning disability nurse to Work as part of our team in Chartwell Ward at Priority House Maidstone.

The Acute Services serves the community of Kent with assessment and treatment of adults who are suffering from acute mental illnesses. This is a challenging yet rewarding environment and requires excellent organisation skills and the ability to use initiative. As well as working effectively within an experienced and knowledgeable nursing and medical team.

You’ll be experienced in practice, or alternatively may be able to join our preceptorship programme. We have dedicated Preceptorship leads as well as online resources. We also support preceptors to undertake The NHS Leadership Academy, Edward Jenner Programme. In addition to this all our employees are able to access good quality supervision and mentoring as well as a wide-range of further learning opportunities.

Main duties of the job

• Carry out comprehensive, systematic nursing assessments which take account of relevant mental, physical, social, cultural, psychological, spiritual, and environmental factors, in partnership with the patient and others through interaction, observation and measurement.
• Work collaboratively with other disciplines, patients and their carers to agree a holistic person centred care plan that addresses the needs identified through assessment.
• To deliver and evaluate safe, competent patient centred care in partnership with the service user and their carers to support recovery.

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 across the county.

The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.

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.