What is Mental Health Together?

In Kent and Medway, the community mental health transformation has created a new service model called Mental Health Together.

It is a multi-agency offer, which means bringing all the services and agencies that support people with varying mental health needs much closer together. This ensures that people get the right care, without having to navigate service boundaries and without repeatedly telling their story.

Mental Health Together will add new roles, as part of a new joined-up model of care which bridges the gap that currently exists between primary (i.e. GPs) and community mental health (i.e. KMPT). It will treat people with complex mental health needs by:

• Providing someone with support in a person-centred, holistic way
• Removing barriers to access, and thresholds across services working together
• Involving service users and carers as equal partners in their care
• Building in involvement and co-production at all levels of service design delivery
• Delivering needs-led and personalised trauma-informed care.

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NHS experience is not essential, so please do apply if you feel your skills and experience align to our requirements

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic mental health nurse who has a strong sense of initiative. You will be responsible for assessing our patients using Dialog+ and Trusted Assessments along with supporting our group-based interventions.

A Community Mental Health Nurse is a key staff member within the multidisciplinary care team and will have continuing responsibility to assess and plan (using Trusted Assessment and Dialog+) alongside the needs of the service user, liaise with our Clinical Pathway Leads following assessment, deliver group-based interventions, influence and drive change, promote health and best practice, patient safety and experience.

The Mental Health Nurse will be professionally accountable to the Executive Director of Nursing, and operationallyaccountable to the Matron / Clinical Service Manager.

Effective communication skills and self-governance are required. You will be able to demonstrate knowledge of high-level interventions & community assessment skills. Existing qualifications or a willingness to undertake training relevant to the post is expected.

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).

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 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 dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the futureTo provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time

Job description

Job responsibilities

Experience

Essential criteria

• Registered on NMC
• Two-year experience at Band 5 or above in hospital or community healthcare
• Evidence of continued professional development, appropriate to the role

Desirable criteria

• Post-registration certificate ENB 998. Possession of specialist nursing or other relevant higher academic or skills focused awards
• Post-registration Mentorship/Practice Assessor qualification
• Dialog+ trained

Skills/Knowledge
Essential criteria

• Good IT skills
• Good understanding of the principles of the Recovery Approach

Desirable criteria

• Excellent IT skills
• Understanding of interagency skills
• Previous experience in the field of work
• Trained in Dialog+

Person Specification

Evidence of CPD

Essential

• Additional Courses relevant to role

Desirable

• Mentorship/Practice Assessor

Professional Registration

Essential

• Qualification
• Relevant experience

Employer details

Employer name

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Address

Highlands House, Tunbridge Wells

10 - 12 Calverley Park Gardens

Tunbridge Wells

TN1 2JN

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