Staff Nurse

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

The closing date is 29 April 2025

Job summary

We're looking for a dynamic and motivatedBand 5 RMN Nurse to Work On Chartwell Ward. We are looking for a Mental Health Nurse to join our amazing team. We are currently an 18-bed female Younger Adults Acute inpatient service. We are looking for a hard-working, kind, caring, compassionate individual to help make our patients feel heard and valued.

The Acute Services serves the community of Kent with assessment and treatment of adults of working age 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.

Main duties of the job

Carry out comprehensive, systematic nursing assessments that 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.

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 arerated 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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Date posted

15 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,970 to £36,483 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

380-AC0686-A

Job locations

Priority House, Maidstone

Hermitage Lane

Maidstone

ME16 9PH

Job description

Job responsibilities

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

Job description

Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

RMN or equivalent
Completion of a preceptorship programme

Desirable

Evidence of post qualification personal and practice development

Experience

Essential

Pre-registration experience of mental health settings and or working with people with mental health conditions
Experience of working within an acute mental health setting

Desirable

Some clinical experience of mental health problems

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Knowledge and experience in working with patients detained under the MHA 1983 (amended 2007)
Basic knowledge of and ability to apply relevant legislative frameworks and policies relating to care e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Safeguarding, Consent to Treatment.
A basic understanding and ability to apply principles of risk assessment and risk management.
A basic understanding and ability to apply principles of risk assessment and risk management.
Effective organisational /planning and decision making skills.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

RMN or equivalent
Completion of a preceptorship programme

Desirable

Evidence of post qualification personal and practice development

Experience

Essential

Pre-registration experience of mental health settings and or working with people with mental health conditions
Experience of working within an acute mental health setting

Desirable

Some clinical experience of mental health problems

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Knowledge and experience in working with patients detained under the MHA 1983 (amended 2007)
Basic knowledge of and ability to apply relevant legislative frameworks and policies relating to care e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Safeguarding, Consent to Treatment.
A basic understanding and ability to apply principles of risk assessment and risk management.
A basic understanding and ability to apply principles of risk assessment and risk management.
Effective organisational /planning and decision making skills.

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.