Job summary
- Main area
- Community Psychiatric Nurse
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-WK0327
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Albion Place, Maidstone (Mental Health Together Team)
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Community Mental Health Practitioner
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.
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
Please note, at this stage, the role is open only to internal staff (including NHSP and Agency staff currently on placement within our organisation) and staff substantively employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). Any individual who is at risk of redundancy will be given priority, provided they meet the essential criteria.
Calling all Community Psychiatric Nurses & Occupational Therapists, why not kick start your career in Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust, working in our friendly Mental Health Together Team located in Maidstone.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurses and an Occupational Therapist to contribute to the development of mental health services. The post is suitable for registered Nurses and Occupational Therapists, with at least 2 years post qualification experience.
You will need to have demonstrated skills and expertise in carrying out a variety of assessments and be able to plan and execute interventions, with individuals, their carers and groups. You will need to be clinically confident and competent in working with individuals in a community setting and be able to work effectively in a multi-professional context. You should have collaborative and enthusiastic styles, as well as have a passion and commitment to develop and promote mental health services.
Main duties of the job
- Ensure assessment of service users and analyse and interpret information gained to form an accurate formulation of risk and need.
- Work collaboratively with service users, staff, and carers to identify goals to determine and deliver an appropriate intervention/recovery plan which maximises engagement and performance whilst balancing risk, and promoting choice and independence.
- Monitor, evaluate and modify therapeutic interventions to measure progress and increase efficacy for the best possible service user outcomes and experience.
- Act as an experienced clinician supporting best practice in line with NICE guidance and professional standards.
- Demonstrate clinical leadership skills through the management of dedicated projects and approved quality improvement initiatives
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 full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Training, Qualifications and Registration
Essential criteria
- CPN with Community Experience
- Completed Preceptorship
- Completed Edward Jenner Programme / Leadership Training (RMN)
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Practice Assessor
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience at Band 5
- Evidence of post qualifying continued learning
- Experience of delivering clinical supervision
- Experience of developing learners and staff in the work place
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within the NHS
- Experience of being involved in service developments or audits
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Significant knowledge of and ability to apply relevant legislative frameworks and policies relating to care e.g. Mental Capacity Act
- Knowledge and understanding of the NMC Code of Conduct
- A comprehensive understanding and ability to apply principles of risk assessment and risk management
- Good knowledge and practice of IT skills
Desirable criteria
- Ability to support and develop an environment which ensures effective clinical care and innovation
- An understanding of the broad aims of current national and local healthcare policy and an appreciation of the implications of this on clinical practice
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
- Sheryl Gonzaga
- Job title
- Operation Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01622 9446461
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