Job summary
- Main area
- Community
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-WK0315
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Priority House, Maidstone
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Community Mental Health Nurse
Band 5
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 have an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Community Mental Health Nurse to join our Home Treatment Team, based at Priority House in Maidstone.
You will be working within the home treatment function delivering support to patients and their families using evidence based, profession specific and general mental health knowledge, providing client centred, recovery orientated principles and practice for individuals, families and carers referred to the Service.
Working in accordance with Home Treatment Team Policies and Procedures and the Care Programme Approach and providing an alternative to inpatient admission, treating patients in their home environment who are presenting in a crisis with significant distress.
Main duties of the job
Work within their professional code of conduct.
Work as part of the Multi-Disciplinary Team driving the implementation of the nursing care as per the service user’s care plans, meeting the physical & emotional needs of the service users in a caring and empathic manner.
Take a leading role in monitoring & maintaining physical wellbeing.
Work flexibly regarding shift changes according to the needs of the service.
Affectively record and communicate information relating to service users.
Delegate duties and support the MDT along with unqualified staff, HCAs and students
Be aware of the trust values & behaviours and use them to provide a framework for your daily work.
Undertake any reasonable request within own competencies and understanding.
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).
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 see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A recognised professional qualification as a Registered Nurse (Mental Health) and NMC registration, or equivalent qualification for Occupational Therapy.
Desirable criteria
- Practice Educator/Mentor Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Pre-registration experience working in mental health service
- To be able to work a 24hr shift pattern including day shifts, nights shifts and weekend shifts
Desirable criteria
- Experience working within Home Treatment / Rapid Response Team
- Some clinical experience of mental health problems Experience of managing and coordinating shifts on a day to day basis
- Experience of working within an acute mental health setting
knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Basic knowledge of and ability to apply relevant legislative frameworks and policies relating to care e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Safeguarding, Consent to Treatment.
- A basic understanding and ability to apply principles of risk assessment and risk management.
- Basic awareness of clinical governance and its relationship to clinical effectiveness and patient safety and patient experience.
- Effective organisational /planning and decision making skills.
- Good knowledge and practice of IT Skills
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and experience in working with patients detained under the MHA 1983 (amended 2007)
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
- Natalie Frater
- Job title
- Operational Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01622725000
- Additional information
01227666188 option 5
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