Nursery Nurse
The closing date is 19 June 2025
Job summary
We are delighted to announce that a full time Nursery Nurse opportunity has become available within the Perinatal Mental Health Community Service. The position is for the West Kent Team, working across the localities of Maidstone and South West Kent.
The West Kent team base is in Maidstone.
Working closely with NHS England, the aim is to improve the access and quality of perinatal mental health services across the counties.
We are therefore looking for an experienced Nursery Nurse to provide nursery nursing interventions and support to women in the community who are experiencing moderate to severe perinatal mental health issues. This will include women in the antenatal and postnatal periods. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team, working alongside professionals offering therapeutic input as well as wider community teams.
You must have a recognised Child Care qualification e.g. NNEB or BTEC National Diploma.
Main duties of the job
- Work as a member of the MDT, assisting in the provision of interventions to meet the needs of the baby for those mothers receiving in-patient care.
- Promoting and supporting the health of the mother and baby.
- Provide an effective and supportive nursery nurse service to mothers in the antenatal and postnatal period, within the community.
- Support the mother and the rest of the MDT ensuring the emotional and practical care of the baby and to monitor developmental progress.
- Work in partnership with the family and the wider community nursing teams e.g. Midwives, Health Visitors, Community staff nurses, and Community Nursery Nurses.
About us
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 in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We arerated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
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.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the futureTo provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
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Details
Date posted
06 June 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 4
Salary
£26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
380-FR0572
Job locations
Poppy House
Oakapple Lane
Maidstone
ME16 9NW
Employer details
Employer name
Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
Address
Poppy House
Oakapple Lane
Maidstone
ME16 9NW
Employer's website
https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
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