Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health Together
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-WK0319
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Highlands House
- Town
- Tunbridge Wells
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Community Psychiatric Nurse
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 qualified mental health nurse to come and work in the South West Kent Mental Health Together team . If you are interested in older adults as well as in working age adults, and keen to develop your expertise in initial assessments and therapeutic interventions this is the role for you!
Successful applicants will be working alongside the multi-disciplinary team including psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, a operational team manager, clinical lead and administrators and may involve running groups alongside colleagues.
Successful applicant will have needed to have completed and signed off their preceptorship
The service is based in Tunbridge Wells however please note there may be an expectation to travel between sites/home visits etc 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 assessments, in a combined clinic setting and as home visits and in care homes where appropriate.
- 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.
- Recording and documenting interventions delivered in a timely manner as per professional and local standards using KMMHT 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 and have an awareness of MCA and DOLs
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 Mental Health Trust (KMMHT), 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.
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 KMMHTs (formerly KMPT) strategies, policies and procedures and guidelines.
- To support and behave in a way that upholds KMMHTs values.
- To carry out specific duties relevant to the setting e.g. nurse-led clinics
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- NMC Qualification
- Completed preceptorship
- Additional training
Desirable criteria
- Safeguarding and MCA and DOLs awareness
Experience, Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- At least 1 Year experience as a qualified RMN
Desirable criteria
- Community Nursing experience
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
- Louise Nixon
- Job title
- Operational Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01892709211
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