Clinical Lead Nurse | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust

Posting date:	08 September 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£47,810 - £54,710 per annum
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	08 October 2025
Location:	Medway/Swale, ME7 4PF
Company:	Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7406372/380-NK224

Summary

Are you a passionate mental health professional seeking a dynamic and rewarding career?

We are seeking an energetic and motivated individual to join our established Medway CMHT in North Kent.

This new and exciting post is for experienced mental health nurses wanting to make a difference in clinical care, achieved by providing specialist mental health advice and education to staff within the team, alongside setting, monitoring, and maintaining quality standards of care.

We offer:

Annual leave allowance starting at 27 days per year (when working full time) + Bank Holidays.

Access to the fantastic NHS pension scheme.

Eligibility for the Blue Light Card (discount service for the NHS, providing members with thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street.

In this role, you will:
• Lead by example: Provide clinical guidance and support to nurses within both programs, fostering a culture of excellence and collaboration.
• Champion quality care: Work alongside Matrons and the Head of Nursing to ensure high-quality clinical practices are implemented across MHT and Together Plus.
• Advocate for your team: Be a voice for nurses, addressing concerns and ensuring they have the resources needed to succeed.
• Share your expertise: Stay up-to-date on best practices in mental health and mentor colleagues through training and knowledge sharing.
• Ensure seamless service: Collaborate with the wider team to assess client needs and ensure placement in the most appropriate program (MHT or Together Plus).
• Optimise service flow: Identify areas for improvement and work collaboratively to streamline the client journey through both programs.
• Provide direct care: Maintain a small caseload of clients with complex needs, offering them personalised clinical support.

We are looking for a candidate with:

Strong clinical expertise in mental health nursing (registration required).

Exceptional leadership and communication skills.

A collaborative and relationship-building approach.

Proactive problem-solving and solution-oriented mindset.

Commitment to evidence-based practice.

If you are passionate about making a positive impact on mental health services, we encourage you to apply!

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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Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.

At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.


This advert closes on Sunday 21 Sep 2025

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