Community Psychiatric Nurse

NHS; Ramsgate; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

The Community Psychiatric Nurse is a key clinical leader within the multidisciplinary care team and will have continuing responsibility to assess, plan, coordinate, deliver and evaluate care, communicate findings, influence and drive change and promote health and best practice, patient safety and experience.

The Community Psychiatric Nurse will be professionally accountable to the Executive Director of Nursing, and operationally accountable to the Service Manager/Matron.

Job holders must be able to work competently in a challenging environment and be able to react to changing care demands whilst demonstrating the highest levels of care and empathy towards patients.

This is across all aspects of the role in a flexible manner, demonstrating the trust values.

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).

Main duties of the job

• Carry out and coordinate comprehensive, systematic nursing assessments which take account of relevant mental, physical, social, cultural, psychological, spiritual, and environmental factors, in partnership with service user and others through interaction, observation and measurement.
• Work collaboratively with other disciplines, service user and their carers to agree a holistic person-centred care plan that addresses the needs identified through assessment.
• Deliver and evaluate safe, person-centred care in partnership with the service user and their carers to support recovery.
• Act as a clinical leader supporting best practice in line with NICE guidance.
• Facilitate and review approved Quality Improvement initiatives within the care setting.

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 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.

Job responsibilities

• Support patients to function to their optimal ability in their environment. This will range from encouraging self-care to providing total physical care depending on the needs of the patient.
• Maintain and promote a safe environment taking account of infection control and identifying and reporting hazards and risks in a timely manner.
• Escort and transport patients as required as part of their care plan.
• Drive own vehicle as per needs of the service and as individual capabilities allow.
• Depending on the environment, serve drinks and promote healthy choices as required to meet individual care plan needs.
• Work a full range of shifts as per the requirements of the service. May also be required, at times, to work at other Trust units and/or sites.
• Physically able to carry out all duties required of the care setting, following successful completion of physical interventions training as required. Ensuring a process and continuous improvement in the way services are provided.
• Provide best practice and value-for-money by reviewing and evaluating services and sharing information internally and externally.

Person Specification

Training Qualifications & Registration

• RMN/RNLD, NMC registration, completed preceptorship and practice assessor training.
• Significant experience at Band 5. Evidence of post qualifying continued learning.

Knowledge & Skills

• Sound knowledge of the Mental Health Act, and ability to apply relevant legislative frameworks and policies relating to care in the community.
• 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.