Community Psychiatric Nurse | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
| Posting date: | 08 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 May 2024 |
| Location: | Maidstone, ME16 9PH |
| Company: | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6211097/380-WK0105-D |
Summary
The West Kent Home Treatment Team is looking for a Community Psychiatric Nurse to join their team which provides a responsive assessment and home treatment service to those experiencing an acute mental health crisis in the community. You will be expected to work collaboratively with Service Users, Carers, and other professionals, offering home treatment interventions as an alternative to hospital admission across the areas of Maidstone and rural, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells, and Edenbridge.
(working across 24 hr shift patterns including early, late, and night shifts)
Assessment and home treatment service to those experiencing an acute mental health crisis in the community.
To work as a member of the Home Treatment Team and Rapid Response team, providing intensive home treatment to patients and support for their families using evidence-based, profession-specific, and general mental health knowledge providing client-centered, recovery-orientated principles and practice for individuals, families, and carers referred to the Service.
You will be expected to work with the Rapid response team in order to carry out assessments; both emergency assessments and gatekeepings for patients, who require a 4-hour emergency response.
To work in accordance with the Trust and Home Treatment Team and Rapid Response Policies and Procedures and the Care Programme Approach
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.
• Working with service users referred to Home Treatment and Rapid Response service.
• To screen and work with all newly referred service users experiencing acute mental health crisis providing assessment or short-term interventions until the crisis is resolved.
• To provide short-term specific psychosocial interventions for those who would benefit from crisis interventions
• To contribute to the planning and implementation of induction, training, and education of students and staff.
• To contribute to the delivery of specialist/ professional training packages of in-service training and staff development when necessary.
• To fulfill the role of mentor/practice educator, maintaining own update training and ensuring responsibility for regular placement provision and ensuring supervision and written assessment of students whilst on placement.
• To assist the band 7 senior practitioner by identifying personal and professional training needs in order to appropriately plan for future training and development.
• To provide effective supervision, support, and guidance for support /STR/ peer workers and any work delegated to them.
Please see the job description for full details.
This advert closes on Monday 22 Apr 2024
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