Job summary
- Main area
- RGN
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week (2 x 7.5 hrs shifts Monday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 380-AC0711
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Thanet Mental Health Unit
- Town
- Margate
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Physical Health Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 6
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. 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.
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
Would you like to be part of a service that is embracing the therapeutic day? Are you someone who has a passion for working with adults with acute mental illness? Do you want to develop your knowledge, skills and expertise to ensure that we deliver high quality, person centred care at the right time and in the right place?
We have a vacancy at Thanet Mental Health Unit, for a Senior physical health nurse ( RGN). You will work collaboratively with the ward management team alongside clinical staff to support delivery of effective, high quality and safe patient centred physical healthcare.
You will support the development and drive forward a physical health education programme to ensure that our staff are able to meet the physical health needs of our patients. You will also help ensure that physical health is viewed on par with mental health needs.
Main duties of the job
- Have a strong desire to support us to develop this service in a rapidly changing climate.
- Have an interest in supporting the physical health of people with acute mental illness having previous experience in this setting.
- Be willing to work in a challenging/often demanding driven environment.
- Be willing to engage in audit and evaluation.
- Be part of a team wishing to always improve the user experience of mental health services.
- Be able to support the management team in a leadership role.
- Offer up-to-date training in physical health for all ward staff.
- Liaise and build a working relationship within our local acute Trust hospitals
Working for our organisation
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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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Qualification and Previous experience
Essential criteria
- Nurse and NMC registration
- Experience within acute mental Health services.
Knowledge and Skill
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate knowledge to post-graduate level of evidence based practice in caring for patients in the designated field
- A robust understanding and ability to apply principles of risk assessment and risk management
- Understanding of the impact of acute episode of mental illness on function and occupation of clients, families and carers
- Knowledge of and ability to apply relevant legislative frameworks and policies relating to care e.g. Mental Capacity Act, safeguarding, consent to treatment
- Communication Skills: Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, cares/ families and all members of the multidisciplinary team
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rosslyn Reed
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01843268899
- Additional information
Michelle Rayleigh-Strutt
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