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Community Mental Health Nurse for Older Adults

Manylion swydd
Dyddiad hysbysebu: 15 Awst 2025
Cyflog: Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
Oriau: Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau: 14 Medi 2025
Lleoliad: Maidstone, ME14 5TS
Cwmni: Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
Math o swydd: Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd: 7389968/380-WK0310

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


The Community Mental Health 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 among our caseload of older adults.

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).

· 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.

· To deliver and evaluate safe, person centred care in partnership with the service user and their carers to support recovery.

· To act as a clinical leader supporting best practice in line with NICE guidance.

· To facilitate and review approved Quality Improvement initiatives within the care setting

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 strategy

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.

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· To adhere to the professional registration and revalidation requirements.

· To support and uphold your professional body's most current Code of Conduct at all times.

· To promote and to adhere to KMPTs strategies, policies, procedures and guidelines.

· To support and behave in a way that upholds KMPT Trust values.

· To practise safely by being aware of and educating on the correct use, limitations and hazards of common interventions, including nursing activities and treatments.

· To report any concerns promptly through the appropriate channels and modify care when necessary to maintain safety, acting to keep patients and others safe.

· To provide educational support to optimise health and wellbeing; promoting self-care where possible, helping people to make choices about their needs and involve their carers where appropriate.

· Recording and reporting accurately any changes related to the patient’s current behaviour and/or risks to Nurse/healthcare professional in Charge in a timely manner.

· Recording care given in a timely manner as per professional and local standards using approved KMPT systems.

· Supporting and carrying out therapeutic observations as required and instructed.

· To coordinate and make recommendations to the care plan process

· To mentor, supervise and line manage staff.

· To assess, act on and report any safeguarding concerns.

· Promoting a healthy, safe and secure environment by adhering to Trust statutory health and safety requirements and maintaining confidentiality of information at all times in compliance with Trust policies, procedures, protocols and guidance.

· Acting as a role model and supporting new team members through demonstration and explanation of tasks and techniques.

· Facilitating, supporting and assessing staff undergoing personal and/or professional development.

· Undertake and maintain all essential training to role.

· Working confidently in a variety of environments according to changing service needs which present different challenges whilst continuing to act in a professional manner.


This advert closes on Sunday 31 Aug 2025

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