Senior Registered Mental Health Nurse | Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 17 Mawrth 2026 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £37,338 - £44,962 per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 16 Ebrill 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Canterbury, CT1 1TD |
| Cwmni: | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7854730/380-AC0786 |
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The Senior Mental Health Nurse is a key clinical leader within the multidisciplinary care team, with continuing responsibility to:
• Assess, plan, coordinate, deliver, and evaluate care.
• Communicate findings effectively.
• Influence and drive positive change.
• Promote health, best practices, patient safety, and positive patient experience.
Key Responsibilities:
Conduct and coordinate comprehensive, systematic nursing assessments:This includes considering mental, physical, social, cultural, psychological, spiritual, and environmental factors, in partnership with service users and others, through interaction, observation, and measurement.
Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, service users, and their carers:Agree on holistic, person-centered care plans that address identified needs.
Deliver and evaluate safe, person-centered care:Support recovery in partnership with service users and their carers.
Provide clinical leadership:Promote best practices in line with NICE guidance.
Facilitate and review approved quality improvement initiatives:Enhance care within the care setting.
• To provide educational support to optimise health and wellbeing;
• To safely manage and administer medications and monitor their effects.
• To carry out specific duties relevant to the setting e.g. nurse in charge, medicines clinic management etc.
• Recording and reporting accurately any changes related to the patient’s current behaviour and/or risks to the Nurse/healthcare professional in Charge in a timely manner.
• Recording care is given in a timely manner as per professional and local standards using approved Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust systems.
• Supporting and carrying out therapeutic observations as required and instructed.
• To mentor, supervise and line manage staff.
• To assess, act on and report any safeguarding concerns.
• 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 for the 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.
• Balancing all aspects of the job role across the 7-day working pattern.
• Being flexible and responsive to competing demands to ensure safe delivery of services.
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.
Our vision is simple: We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s doing well together.
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 31 Mar 2026
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