Community Psychiatric Nurse

Overview

We are seeking an energetic and motivated individual to join our established Dartford Home Treatment team and Rapid Response Service in North Kent. This is an exciting time to join our team as recent investments and changes to the community mental health framework are creating more opportunities for dedicated work within the CRHTT service.

Responsibilities

• Provide 24 / 7 assessment and treatment to individuals experiencing a mental health crisis in the community.
• Work collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver effective interventions.
• Develop your intervention and assessment skills through ongoing support, supervision, and training opportunities.
• Assess patients' mental health needs, determine appropriate support levels, and ensure their well-being within a legal framework.
• Conduct comprehensive mental health assessments to identify needs and risks.
• Manage potential risks associated with patients' conditions.
• Assess patients' capacity to consent to treatment options.
• Ensure all actions adhere to relevant mental health legislation and regulations.
• Collaborate with service users, staff, and relatives to identify goals and determine and deliver an appropriate intervention plan balancing risk, engagement, choice and independence.
• Engage in short term psychosocial interventions appropriate to need and risks.
• Participate in physical intervention training, if required, to support team safety.

Qualifications and Experience

Desirable criteria

Essential criteria

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 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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Additional information

Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.

High Cost Area Allowance : This post is based in Dartford, Gravesham or Swanley. The salary listed is inclusive of the High-Cost Area Allowance (5% of basic salary, minimum £1,192 / year, maximum £2,011 / year, paid monthly).

Other requirements : The post holder must hold a full, valid UK driving licence and have access to a car / vehicle to use for business purposes unless disabled as defined by the Equality Act 2010.

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