Non-Medical Nurse Prescriber

Job overview
An exciting opportunity has been created for a Nurse Non-Medical Prescriber working in South Kent Coast.
The post holder must hold a relevant prescribing qualification and some experience in prescribing is desirable but not essentially needed as KMPT offers a brilliant prescribing network that is robustly governed and supports staff working in this field of nursing.

Main duties of the job
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The nurse will need to hold a qualification as a Non-Medical Prescriber and will be undertaking independent prescribing practice working alongside the medical team within MHT and MHT+.
The post holder will be expected to provide assessment and treatment, including the prescribing of medications. The role will focus on working in the outpatient clinics working alongside the Consultant psychiatrists, reviewing, initiating and adjusting medication.
The post holder will be an experienced Non-medical Prescriber with specialist knowledge and be able to provide advice to GPs and other relevant professionals and service users on mental health medications.
The post holder will contribute to governance and audit, ensuring that service delivery focuses on the quality agenda and that dignity, privacy, and respect is afforded at all times to service users.
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 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.
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 and main responsibilities of the role.
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.

Person specification

Qualification

Essential criteria

• 1st Level Nurse RMN
• BSc(Hons) Nurse Practitioner or equivalent
• Non Medical Prescribing Course

Experience

Essential criteria

• 5 years Band 6 or above
• Medicine management
• Experience of working either in Community, Primary Care or Acute
• Experience of undertaking comprehensive assessment of clients with undifferentiated diagnosis
• Experience of Research and Development and Audit

Desirable criteria

• Supply and administration of medicines under Patient Group Directions, Supplementary and if agreed, Independent prescribing.

Knowledge, Skills & Ability

Essential criteria

• Broad understanding of multi- professional roles within primary and community services
• Excellent communications skills both written and verbal
• Demonstrate leadership characteristics and work well within a team
• Able to demonstrate sound clinical decision making under pressure

Desirable criteria

• Assessment and management of acute mental illnesses or relapse, prescribing and providing treatment to minimize the impact of the illness.
• Family, Carer's and Children's Interventions and Planning

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Flexible and adaptable

Desirable criteria

• Ability to travel within the UK on an occasional basis and locally on a more regular basis

KMPT Staff Benefits:
NHS pension scheme Your employer pays 23.7% towards your pension and life assurance benefits.
Please see Apply. Apply/Pensions.aspx for more details.
Annual leave for Agenda for Change On appointment to NHS
27 days for full time or pro rata if part time
After 5 years NHS service
29 days full time or pro rata if part time
After 10 years NHS service
33 days full time or pro rata if part time
Plus bank holidays, that's up to 41 days - more than 8 weeks paid time off!
Medical staffs have national Terms and Conditions.
Buying and selling of annual leave is also available as part of our flexible approach to staff benefits.
Recommend a friend campaign If you already work for us you could refer a friend from outside of the Trust to any of the roles below and you can receive £1000 if they are successfully recruited; Nursing staff - RMN RGN RNLD - Band 5 and 6, Medical Doctors, Clinical Psychologist and Allied Health Professionals,
Flexible working Covers job share, term time working, flexible shifts etc. Just ask and we will try to help.
Statutory and occupational maternity, paternity or adoption leave Dependant on length of NHS service
Other paid/unpaid leave This can be for Jury Service, Reserved Armed Forces, etc. This is paid outside of annual leave.
Non paid leave for career breaks
Staff Support KMPT offers a face to face counselling service for any issues not just work related problems.
NHS discounts and shopping vouchers Staff can sign up for Red Guava, PS discounts and Health Service Discounts to receive a variety of discounts in travel, fashion, technology, mobile phone contracts, food and drink, days out etc.
Learning and Development opportunities In addition to the mandatory subjects there are a number of leadership, management and staff topic areas, including coaching and mentoring.
Induction
KMPT is committed to supporting all new staff and this includes a comprehensive Induction programme. The programme's duration depends on role and can be from 2 days to 4 weeks (not always consecutive days).
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