Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
Community Psychiatric Nurse
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When a service user experiences an acute mental health crisis, receiving fast, compassionate care in their own home environment can transform their recovery. As a Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN) within our East Kent Home Treatment & Rapid Response Teams, you’ll play a crucial role delivering recovery-focussed nursing care to service users, families, and carers when they need it most.
This dynamic dual role brings together hands-on crisis nursing, hospital gatekeeping, shift leadership, and student mentorship:
- Home Treatment Function: Deliver evidence-based, nurse-led care and psychosocial interventions directly in service users' homes, providing a safe and effective alternative to inpatient hospital admission.
- Rapid Response Function: Screen new referrals, conduct urgent 24/7 assessments via the Urgent Mental Health Helpline, and carry out gatekeeping assessments in general hospital settings.
- Clinical Leadership & Mentorship: Lead shifts, allocate work across the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), uphold clinical documentation standards, and act as a Practice Educator for the next generation of mental health nurses.
If you are a passionate Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) looking for a supportive environment where your clinical judgement and leadership are genuinely valued, we’d love to hear from you.
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- Assessment & Crisis Screening: Screen newly referred service users experiencing acute mental health crises, carrying out holistic nursing assessments and delivering short-term interventions until the crisis is resolved.
- Targeted Psychosocial Interventions: Provide evidence-based, short-term psychosocial and nursing interventions tailored for individuals presenting with significant distress.
- Shift Co-ordination & MDT Leadership: Act as shift co-ordinator—leading the floor, prioritising clinical workloads, delegating effectively across the MDT, and managing fast-changing priorities.
- Hospital Gatekeeping & Liaison: Perform gatekeeping assessments within general hospital mental health assessment areas to ensure service users access the right care pathway promptly.
- Quality & Clinical Documentation: Keep care plans, risk assessments, and clinical documentation updated and compliant with Trust policies, Care Programme Approach (CPA) guidelines, and Quality Improvement standards.
- Practice Education & Mentorship: Serve as a Practice Educator/mentor—supervising nursing students on placement, completing formal written assessments, maintaining update training, and facilitating smooth team inductions.
- Training & Service Development: Contribute to the design and delivery of specialist nursing and in-service training packages to foster team development and continuous learning
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We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.
Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.
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. 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 working well together.
Check out our Canterbury site
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Daniella Smith
- Job title: Operational Manager
- Email address: Daniella.smith5@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01227 533380
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