Senior Mental Health Nurse LIST Team | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
Location
Gillingham, Kent | United Kingdom
Job description
The Medway Low Intensity Support Team (LIST) is a small Locality based service, which provides ongoing non-intensive support for service-users who need to remain under the care of a mental health team but have achieved stability.
The LIST team aims to offer a patient centred service and involve carers and service users wherever possible within the framework of the team. The team will work in partnership with the carers support lead.
To support the Operational Manager within the multidisciplinary of the LIST team. Through professional, visible leadership that enables evidence-based practice; setting standards that result in high quality patient care and in line with KMPT Low Intensity Support Team Operational Policy.
To provide a medication service for those patients who are on medication which cannot be provided by their GP. Most GPs are currently unable to provide for giving depot medication and LIST has provision to include these patients. Depot medication is given at clinic, with some provision for home visits.
LIST will provide prescriptions for medication as required and will administer depot medication if this cannot be given by the GP or the depot clinics. LIST will arrange with the Trust’s pharmacy service to supply medication when appropriate.
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.
Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main responsibilities of the role.
This advert closes on Wednesday 28 Feb 2024
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