Senior Registered Mental Health Nurse

Job overview
The Senior Mental Health Nurse is a key clinical leader within the multidisciplinary care team, with continuing responsibility to:

• Assess, plan, coordinate, deliver, and evaluate care.
• Communicate findings effectively.
• Influence and drive positive change.
• Promote health, best practices, patient safety, and positive patient experience.

Key Responsibilities:
Conduct and coordinate comprehensive, systematic nursing assessments: This includes considering mental, physical, social, cultural, psychological, spiritual, and environmental factors, in partnership with service users and others, through interaction, observation, and measurement.
Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, service users, and their carers: Agree on holistic, person-centered care plans that address identified needs.
Deliver and evaluate safe, person-centered care: Support recovery in partnership with service users and their carers.
Provide clinical leadership: Promote best practices in line with NICE guidance.
Facilitate and review approved quality improvement initiatives: Enhance care within the care setting.

Main duties of the job
• To provide educational support to optimise health and wellbeing;
• To safely manage and administer medications and monitor their effects.
• To carry out specific duties relevant to the setting e.g. nurse in charge, medicines clinic management etc.
• Recording and reporting accurately any changes related to the patient's current behaviour and/or risks to the Nurse/healthcare professional in Charge in a timely manner.
• Recording care is given in a timely manner as per professional and local standards using approved Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust systems.
• Supporting and carrying out therapeutic observations as required and instructed.
• To mentor, supervise and line manage staff.
• To assess, act on and report any safeguarding concerns.
• Acting as a role model and supporting new team members through demonstration and explanation of tasks and techniques.
• Facilitating, supporting and assessing staff undergoing personal and/or professional development.
• Undertake and maintain all essential training for the role.
• Working confidently in a variety of environments according to changing service needs
which present different challenges whilst continuing to act in a professional manner.
• Balancing all aspects of the job role across the 7-day working pattern.
• Being flexible and responsive to competing demands to ensure safe delivery of services.

Working for our organisation
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated 'Good' by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.
Our vision is simple: We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It's why we're passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's doing well together.

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

Person specification

Shortlisting

Essential criteria

• Qualified RMN/RNLD

Desirable criteria

• Relevant Experience to role

Essential

Essential criteria

• RMN/RMLD
• Practice Assessor
• Significant Experience at Band 5
• Evidence of Post Qualifying Learning
• Effective organisational /planning and decision making skills.
• Knowledge and understanding of the NMC Code of Conduct
• Significant knowledge of and ability to apply relevant legislative frameworks and policies relating to care e.g. Mental Capacity Act
• To participate in Quality Improvement, Audits, Research, etc.

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of Professional Development
• Experience of working within the NHS.
• Ability to support and develop an environment which ensures effective clinical care and innovation.

Important Information:
In cases where we receive a high volume of applications for a post, it may be necessary to bring the closing date forward. Please submit your completed application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
Due to the high volume of applications received, it is not possible to respond individually to your application. Should you not hear from us within six weeks of the vacancy closing, please assume that your application has not been successful.

Probation Period. New employees external to the trust are subject to a six-month probationary period.
To deliver an effective service it is essential in some of our roles that you are able to travel between work bases in a timely manner.
Production of false or forged documents/qualifications in order to obtain employment is a criminal offence and will be reported to the Police.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check.
Certain roles are subject to criminal record checks called Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks. Therefore, you will be required to submit a completed Disclosure form to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust are signed up to NHS England's Sexual Safety in Health Care Organisational Charter
The trust takes a systematic zero-tolerance approach to tackle any unwanted, inappropriate and/or harmful sexual behaviours within the workplace and in our care provision. We are committed to sexual safety which encompasses prevention, support and decisive action against perpetrators. We are committed to keeping you and our patients safe.

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