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The Mental Health Nurse is a key member of the multidisciplinary care team and will have continuing responsibility to assess, plan, deliver and evaluate care, communicate findings, influence change and promote health and best practices, patient safety and experience.

 The Mental Health Nurse will be professionally accountable to the Executive Director of Nursing, and operationally accountable to the Matron / Clinical Service Manager.

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  RESPONSIBILITY:

To act as a Practice Assessor, or be prepared to train towards.

To adhere to the NMC registration and revalidation requirements.

To adhere to the most current NMC Code of Conduct at all times.

To support the implementation of current and future Nursing Strategy.

To adhere to KMPT policies, procedures and guidelines.

To support and behave in a way that upholds KMPT Trust values.      

To assess, act on and report any safeguarding concerns.

To practice safely by being aware of the correct use, limitations and hazards of common interventions, including nursing activities and treatments.

To report any concerns promptly through the appropriate channels and modify care when necessary to maintain safety, acting to keep patients and others safe.

To provide educational support to optimise health and well-being; promoting self-care where possible, helping people to make choices about their needs and involve their carers where appropriate.

To safely manage, administer medications and monitor their effects.

To supervise a range of other staff and their activities as delegated.

To carry out specific duties relevant to the setting e.g. nurse in charge, medicines clinic management, etc. 

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

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.