Community Mental Health Practitioner | Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust

We are seeking a Community Mental Health Practitioner who is a key clinical leader within the multidisciplinary care team and will have continuing responsibility to assess, plan, coordinate, deliver and evaluate care, communicate findings, influence and drive change and promote health and best practice, patient safety and experience.

The Community Mental Health Practitioner will be professionally accountable to the Executive Director of Nursing, and operationally
accountable to the Service Manager/Matron.

You must be able to work competently in a challenging environment and be able to react to changing care demands whilst demonstrating the highest levels of care and empathy towards patients.

This is across all aspects of the role in a flexible manner, demonstrating the trust values.

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).

• Carry out and coordinate comprehensive, systematic assessments which take account of relevant mental, physical, social, cultural, psychological, spiritual, and environmental factors, in partnership with service user and others through interaction, observation and measurement
• Work collaboratively with other disciplines, service user and their carers to agree a holistic person-centred care plan that addresses the needs identified through assessment
• To deliver and evaluate safe, person centred care in partnership with the service user and their carers to support recovery
• To act as a clinical leader supporting best practice in line with NICE guidance
• To facilitate and review approved Quality Improvement initiatives within the care setting.

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.

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• Supporting patients to function to their optimal ability in their environment. This will range from encouraging self-care to providing total physical care depending on the needs of the patient.

Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification

This advert closes on Tuesday 26 May 2026

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