Staff Nurse

Woodchurch ward is an acute female admission ward for a range of people, predominantly older people, providing person centred care via our dedicated multi-disciplinary team. We are fully rotational covering long days and nights, weekends and bank holidays. Our flexible rota system allows good work-life balance while our teams attend work with utmost passion and compassion providing evidence based interventions through solution focused approaches and delivering excellent patient care. We are looking for dedicated and motivated individuals with passion and empathy to join us and be part of our professional, skilled and friendly team that invests in staff through continuous development and career progression., Please refer to the attached job description for full details and the main responsibilities of the role.

The ideal candidate for the role will be a Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) with Strong interpersonal skills and good communication both verbal and written. You will be committed to working with people with severe mental health problems in a ward environment., Essential

• RMN Completion of Preceporship Programme
• Experience of mental health
• Evidence of recent practice
Desirable
• Practice Development
• Older Adult knowldge and skill
Knowledge Essential
• Mental Health Legislation
• Safeguarding and ability to apply principles
• Clinical Effectiveness and patient experience
• Person centred care planning
• Good IT skills
• Medication Competency
• Ability to effectively communicate verbally and in reports
• Knowledge of NMC Guideance and revalidation
Desirable
• Experience of coordinating a shift
• Experience of supervsion lower grade staff
• Clinical reflection evidence
  
  Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving million people across 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 will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved 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.