Mental Health Services Nationally are undergoing significant transformation under the Community Mental Health Framework. Medway Community Mental Health Team forms part of the North Kent Community Services. It is a diverse multi-cultural team that is looking to recruit a band 6 Clinic Nurse to work within the team, providing specialist mental health care for people with multiple and complex needs that require intensive support and to take a lead role in the depot Clinic.
You will be responsible for ensuring the highest standards of physical health care for service users. You are expected to be a good team worker and have the ability to supervise, teach and develop the physical health care skills of the junior members of the team as well as acting as a positive role model for all staff and be able to lead in areas of clinical practice and development
Extensive knowledge of running a clinic a is required, alongside physical health monitoring such as ECG's, Venepuncture, Pochi Machine operation and escalation of physical health concerns to the appropriate staff.
Medications management, administration and physical health checks will provide a high standard of care to service users. There is a strong emphasis on the monitoring and reporting of physical health checks at regular intervals.
As part of the Band 6 Nursing team, you will be required to attain a mentoring qualification.
* Carry out and coordinate comprehensive, systematic nursing assessments which take account of relevant mental, physical, social, cultural, psychological, spiritual, and environmental factors, in partnership with service user and others through interaction, observation and measurement.
* You will also be required to write tribunal reports, attendance at CPA meetings, and Tribunal meetings.
* Work collaboratively with other disciplines, service user and their carers to agree a holistic person centred care plan that addresses the needs identified through assessment.
* To deliver and evaluate safe, person-centred care in partnership with the service user and their carers to support recovery.
* To act as a clinical leader supporting best practice in line with NICE guidance.
* To facilitate and review approved Quality Improvement initiatives within the care setting
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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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Alex Bridge Job title: Clinical Lead Nurse Email address: alex.bridge@nhs.net Telephone number: 01795 504 959 #J-18808-Ljbffr