Community Psychiatric Nurse

Job overview
KMPT is Seeking a Dedicated Community Psychiatric Nurse
Are you a passionate and experienced mental health nurse looking to make a real difference in people's lives? Join our dynamic and supportive Community Mental Health Team!
We are seeking a highly motivated and compassionate Community Psychiatric Nurse to join our multidisciplinary team.
You will play a crucial role in providing holistic care to individuals with diverse mental health needs within the community.
Key Responsibilities:

• Comprehensive Care Management:
• Conduct thorough holistic assessments of individuals' mental and physical health needs, social circumstances, and support systems.
• Develop, implement, and evaluate personalized care plans in collaboration with service users and the multidisciplinary team.
• Coordinate and deliver a range of therapeutic interventions, medication management, and practical support.
• Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of care plans, making adjustments as needed.

Main duties of the job

• Arranging, contributing to and documenting care reviews, including telephone, home visits, video and face to face reviews - as appropriate and defined within the care group SOP
• To supervise junior staff members and to support students in placement
• To work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team as well as patients, carers, family members and internal and external agencies.
• Effective communication skills and self-governance are required. You will be able to demonstrate knowledge of high-level interventions & community assessment skills. Existing qualifications or a willingness to undertake training relevant to the post is expected.

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 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 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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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• 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.
• Recording care given and reporting omissions accurately and in a timely manner.
• Supporting and carrying out therapeutic observations as required and instructed.
• To make recommendations to the care plan process
• Promoting a healthy, safe and secure environment by adhering to Trust statutory health and safety requirements and maintaining confidentiality of information at all times in compliance with Trust policies, procedures, protocols and guidance

Please see the job description for more details

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered with NMC as an RMN
• Experience

Desirable criteria

• Experience working as RMN with people who has mental health difficulties

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Graduate

Desirable criteria

• Post Graduate

KMPT Staff Benefits:
NHS pension scheme Your employer pays 23.7% towards your pension and life assurance benefits.
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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).
The Induction programme will provide an excellent opportunity for new staff to meet and engage with KMPT's subject specialists and include the required training.
The programme may involve some travel to the various training venues across Kent and Medway, the main ones being Canterbury, Maidstone and Dartford.
New starter bonus At the Trust we really value our nurses and the skills they bring. To recognise this we offer