• Job Description

  Req#: C9380-25-0144?language=en&page=843&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  The Senior Mental Health Nurse is a key clinical leader within the multidisciplinary care team, with continuing responsibility to:

  • Assess, plan, coordinate, deliver, and evaluate care.
  • Communicate findings effectively.
  • Influence and drive positive change.
  • Promote health, best practices, patient safety, and positive patient experience.

  Key Responsibilities:

  Conduct and coordinate comprehensive, systematic nursing assessments: This includes considering mental, physical, social, cultural, psychological, spiritual, and environmental factors, in partnership with service users and others, through interaction, observation, and measurement.

  Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, service users, and their carers: Agree on holistic, person-centered care plans that address identified needs.

  Deliver and evaluate safe, person-centered care: Support recovery in partnership with service users and their carers.

  Provide clinical leadership: Promote best practices in line with NICE guidance.

  Facilitate and review approved quality improvement initiatives: Enhance care within the care setting.

  Main duties of the job

  o To provide educational support to optimise health and wellbeing;o To safely manage and administer medications and monitor their effects.o To carry out specific duties relevant to the setting e.g. nurse in charge, medicines clinic management etc.o Recording and reporting accurately any changes related to the patient's current behaviour and/or risks to the Nurse/healthcare professional in Charge in a timely manner.o Recording care is given in a timely manner as per professional and local standards using approved KMPT systems.o Supporting and carrying out therapeutic observations as required and instructed.o To mentor, supervise and line manage staff.o To assess, act on and report any safeguarding concerns.o Acting as a role model and supporting new team members through demonstration and explanation of tasks and techniques.o Facilitating, supporting and assessing staff undergoing personal and/or professional development.o Undertake and maintain all essential training for the role.o Working confidently in a variety of environments according to changing service needswhich present different challenges whilst continuing to act in a professional manner.o Balancing all aspects of the job role across the 7-day working pattern.o Being flexible and responsive to competing demands to ensure safe delivery of services.

  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 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.

  Check out our recruitment videos Recruitment - YouTube

  Date posted

  19 February 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 6

  Salary

  £37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum plus

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  380-AC0678

  Job locations

  St. Martins Hospital

  Littlebourne Road

  Canterbury

  CT1 1TD

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

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

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

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

  Person Specification

  Shortlisting

  Essential

  • Qualified RMN/RNLD

  Desirable

  • Relevant Experience to role

  Essential

  Essential

  • RMN/RMLD
  • Practice Assessor
  • Significant Experience at Band 5
  • Evidence of Post Qualifying Learning
  • Effective organisational /planning and decision making skills.
  • Knowledge and understanding of the NMC Code of Conduct
  • Significant knowledge of and ability to apply relevant legislative frameworks and policies relating to care e.g. Mental Capacity Act
  • To participate in Quality Improvement, Audits, Research, etc.

  Desirable

  • Evidence of Professional Development
  • Experience of working within the NHS.
  • Ability to support and develop an environment which ensures effective clinical care and innovation.

  Person Specification

  Shortlisting

  Essential

  • Qualified RMN/RNLD

  Desirable

  • Relevant Experience to role

  Essential

  Essential

  • RMN/RMLD
  • Practice Assessor
  • Significant Experience at Band 5
  • Evidence of Post Qualifying Learning
  • Effective organisational /planning and decision making skills.
  • Knowledge and understanding of the NMC Code of Conduct
  • Significant knowledge of and ability to apply relevant legislative frameworks and policies relating to care e.g. Mental Capacity Act
  • To participate in Quality Improvement, Audits, Research, etc.

  Desirable

  • Evidence of Professional Development
  • Experience of working within the NHS.
  • Ability to support and develop an environment which ensures effective clinical care and innovation.

  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.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  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.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

  Address

  St. Martins Hospital

  Littlebourne Road

  Canterbury

  CT1 1TD

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

  Address

  St. Martins Hospital

  Littlebourne Road

  Canterbury

  CT1 1TD

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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