Job summary
- Main area
- Memory clinic
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-WK0271
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Highlands House
- Town
- Tunbridge Wells
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Community Mental 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
We are seeking a band 6 experienced nurse to come and work in the newly established West Kent Memory Assessment Service. If you are interested in older adults and keen to develop your expertise in memory assessment this is the role for you!
The memory assessment service aims to assess and diagnose patients within six weeks, providing the highest quality of care to our local population.
Successful applicants will be working in our combined memory clinics alongside the multi-disciplinary team including psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, a operational team manager, clinical lead and administrators.
The memory service is based in Maidstone but operates clinics in Sevenoaks and Tunbridge Wells so please note there may be an expectation to travel between sites as part of this role.
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).
Main duties of the job
To deliver memory assessments, in a combined clinic setting and as home visits and in care homes where appropriate.
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
To adhere to the NMC registration and revalidation requirements.
· To support and uphold the most current NMC Code of Conduct at all times.
· To support and implement the current and future Nursing Strategy.
· To promote and adhere to KMPTs strategies, policies and procedures and guidelines.
· To support and behave in a way that upholds KMPT values.
· To carry out specific duties relevant to the setting e.g. nurse-led clinics.
· Recording and documenting interventions delivered in a timely manner as per professional and local standards using KMPT systems.
· To coordinate and make recommendations to the care plan process
· To act as Practice Assessor
· To assess, act on and report any safeguarding concerns
· Act as a role model and support new team members through demonstration and explanation of tasks and techniques.
· Facilitate, support and assess staff undergoing personal and/or professional development.
· Undertake and maintain all essential training to the role.
Person specification
Professional qualification
Essential criteria
- NMC RMN
- Knowledge of NMC code of conduct
- Knowledge of memory assessments
Desirable criteria
- Previously had experience carrying out memory assessments
- Previously worked with older adults
NMC registration
Essential criteria
- NMC registered
Desirable criteria
- clinical experience in memory service
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
- YOUNG, Tara
- Job title
- Operational Team manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01622726899
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