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Senior Community Psychiatric Nurse - Community Rehabilitation

Job details
Posting date: 19 September 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 19 October 2024
Location: Ashford, TN25 4BY
Company: Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6428297/380-EK203

Summary

A Vacancy at Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust.


The Community Rehabilitation Service provides intensive recovery-focussed rehabilitation to individuals with complex psychosis and related difficulties. The team use an holistic approach together with Social Care and 3rd sector partners in order to enable individuals to manage more effectively and independently in their community.
We currently have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated CPN to work with our established Ashford/Canterbury service as one of the team’s Senior Community Psychiatric Nurse. The successful applicant will care coordinate and provide rehabilitation nursing input to a defined caseload of individuals with complex mental health problems, they will deliver the therapeutic programme and provide support and supervision to other members of the staff team. The team delivers comprehensive, individualised treatment and recovery plans which include supporting clients to maintain their living environment, and encouraging and supporting them to have meaningful roles and purpose within their local communities.
The core service hours are 09:00 - 17:00 but staff are expected to provide input between the hours of 08:00 and 20:00 according to the needs of the service, including working some evenings, weekends and public holidays if required.
You will need to have experience in working with individuals with complex mental health problems and be registered Mental Health Nurse with at least 2 years post registration experience.

The Senior 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 Psychiatric Nurse will be professionally accountable to the Executive Director of Nursing, and operationally accountable to the Service Manager

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).

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.



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).


This advert closes on Thursday 3 Oct 2024

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