An exciting opportunity has arisen within the East Kent Community Rehabilitation Service, at Rivendell. The team require Deputy Unit Manager and the successful candidate should be an enthusiastic and motivated registered mental health nurse with sound knowledge and skills to take on this challenging but rewarding role.

Rivendell is situated in the village of Eastry and is one of 6 Rehabilitation Units across Kent, which provides specialist inpatient rehabilitation for individuals with complex mental health and psychological needs. The unit comprises of 9 single bedrooms and is staffed 24 hour a day, 7 days a week.

The multidisciplinary team provides a wide range of individualized interventions delivered by nursing, medical, psychological, occupational therapy and peer support clinicians. You will also have excellent interpersonal skills to manage and supervise staff effectively. You will be working with a wide range of experienced and friendly professionals providing high-quality care with compassion.

We will offer development opportunities, supervision, reflective practice, mentoring and coaching and will ensure you are fully supported in your new role. A working knowledge of serious and enduring mental health conditions, such as complex psychosis is essential.

The successful candidate will also act as a Clinical Lead supporting best practice in line with NMC, NICE guidance and Trust Policy.

Main duties of the job

We believe in clinically led, management-supported services and want to strengthen nurse leadership to provide safe, compassionate, creative services which really make a difference to patient lives. You will therefore be an excellent clinician, committed to the concept of person centred care and recovery. You will have the ability to influence, enthuse and enable, a role model who leads from the front and by example you will use your clinical expertise to improve practice, to challenge tradition and to work with the team to create a culture of therapeutic optimism and hope.The candidate will be resilient, tenacious and ready for a challenge, who will support and develop staff to provide the kind of service you would want to recommend to family, carers and friends.

We will offer development opportunities, supervision, reflective practice, mentoring and coaching and will ensure you are fully supported in your new role. A working knowledge of serious and enduring mental health conditions, such as complex psychosis is essential.

The Senior Nurse will provide day-to-day support to the Unit Manager, to carry out appropriate delegated tasks.

The Senior Nurse will be responsible for coordinating the comprehensive assessment of service users.

Work collaboratively with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure effective delivery of the Rehabilitation Therapeutic Intervention programme.

About us

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 across the county.

The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.

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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Deputy Unit Manager is a key clinical leader within the multidisciplinary care team and will have continuing responsibility to assess, plan, coordinate, deliver and evaluate care, communicate findings,influence and drive 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 Service manager.

Please see the job description for full details

Person Specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential

• RMN registered with the NMC
• Experienced Practice Assessor
• Completed Edward Jenner Programme

Desirable

• Evidence of CPD relevant to inpatient rehab

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience as a Band 5
• Experience of working on an inpatient unit
• Rehabilitation experience

Desirable

• Experience of working in the NHS

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• Significant knowledge of and ability to apply relevant legislative frameworks e.g. MHA
• Knowledge and understanding of complex care planning
• Knowledge and understating of NMC Code of Conduct
• enhanced leadership skills e.g. supervision, taking charge, delegating duties

Desirable

• Participation in clinical audit, QI or research

Employer details

Employer name

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Address

Rivendell

Mill Lane

Eastry, Kent

CT13 0JU

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