Lead Nurse | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
| Posting date: | 30 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £58,972 - £68,525 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 May 2024 |
| Location: | Maidstone, ME16 9PH |
| Company: | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6200406/380-FR0422 |
Summary
Women’s Outreach Service
2 year secondment/fixed term post opportunity
Lead Nurse 8B
Hours 37.5
Monday – Friday 9-5
Work base negotiable Kent/Surrey/Sussex
Summary
KMPT are pleased to offer a 2 year secondment working within the Women’s Outreach Service. The women's outreach service is a 2 year pilot project that has been developed as part of the women's secure blended services in the Kent, Surrey and Sussex secure care pathway (KSS). This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is interested in developing and shaping a new service to improve outcomes for women.
The aims of the women’s service are to reduce the number of women placed within secure beds who do not benefit from secure care. To ensure that that principle of placement within the least restrictive environment is maintained and work with others to identify potential alternatives including effective community-based options and to benchmark services for women within the collaborative against known best practice nationally.
The successful candidate will be an RMN with significant experience of working with women in a forensic setting. Have expert knowledge of nursing practice and multidisciplinary team working, have substantial evidence of recent relevant clinical practice and be able to demonstrate expert advice within the field of offender health with evidence of inter-professional collaboration and advanced decision-making skills that reflect a patient/carer focus.
The successful candidate will be responsible for providing additional support to women referred from Psychiatric Intensive Care Units (PICU), and prison healthcare services where it is possible to support the care and treatment and subsequent discharge without the need to admit into a secure inpatient service supporting the principle of provision of care in the least restrictive environment.
You will provide expert nurse leadership, advice and clinical consultancy to nurses and multidisciplinary teams in the area of forensic mental health nursing. Support PICU and prison healthcare services in their work with service users to reduce distress and therefore risk behaviours, and work with referring services to develop appropriate crisis and behavioural support plans for service users.
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.
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 14 May 2024
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