Job summary
- Main area
- West Kent Directorate
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (working long days and nights)
- Job ref
- 380-WK0371
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Priority House, Maidstone
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Community Psychiatric Nurse
Band 6
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Here are some clips of our Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust staff, speaking about their role and why they enjoy working for us
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
We are looking to recruit for our Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team. Working within the home treatment function, delivering support to patients and their families using evidence-based, profession-specific and general mental health knowledge, providing client centred, recovery-oriented principles and practice for individuals, families and carers referred to the Service.
You will also work within the Rapid response function, undertaking assessments 24/7 received from Urgent Mental Health Helpline as well as undertaking gatekeeping assessments. To work in accordance with Trust and Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team Policies and Procedures and the Care Programme Approach.
To provide an alternative to inpatient admission treating patients in their home environment who are presenting in a crisis with significant distress.
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).
To be able to work a 24hr shift pattern including day shifts, night shifts and weekend shifts
Main duties of the job
Working with service users referred to home Treatment team and Rapid Response Service
- To screen, and work with all newly referred service users experiencing acute mental health crisis providing assessment or short-term interventions until crisis is resolved
- To provide short-term specific psychosocial interventions for those who would benefit from crisis interventions
- To ensure documentation is reviewed and updated in line with quality improvement standards
- To shift co-ordinate lead the shift, allocate work to the wider MDT and prioritise workloads.
- To contribute to the planning and implementation of induction, training and education of students and staff.
- To contribute to the delivery of specialist/ professional training packages of in-service training and staff development when necessary.
- To fulfil the role of mentor/practice educator, maintaining own update training and ensuring responsibility for regular placement provision and ensuring supervision and written assessment of students whilst on placement.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description for further details for full detailed responsibilities of this role.
Person specification
Training, Qualifications and Registration
Essential criteria
- Registration with relevant regulatory body. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
Desirable criteria
- Further training relevant to the role
- Mentorship or practice educator qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience working in mental health service
- Experience of prioritising casework and allocation /delegation of tasks to others.
- Experience of liaising with a variety of stakeholders both internal and external to organisations.
Desirable criteria
- Experience working within Crisis Home Treatment Team
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of and ability to apply relevant legislative frameworks and policies relating to care e.g. Care programme approach, Mental Capacity Act, Safeguarding, Consent to Treatment.
- An understanding and ability to apply principles of risk assessment and risk management.
- Understanding of the impact of mental health crisis on lifestyle and function for clients, family and carers and common pharmacological and psychosocial treatments
- Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism at all times, especially in complex/challenging situations
- Ability to work autonomously and cooperatively as part of an interprofessional team.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to motivate, empower and enable others.
- Leadership skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Natalie Frater
- Job title
- Operational Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01622725000
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