Job summary
- Main area
- Community Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent: Consolidated hours/ 9-5 Monday - Friday
- Hours
- Full time
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 380-NK110
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Littlebrook Hospital, Dartford
- Town
- Dartford
- Salary
- £45,753 - £52,067 per annum (inclusive of high-cost area supplement)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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Senior Clinical Practitioner
Band 7
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has become available for a Band 7 Senior Practitioner to take on the clinical leadership responsibility for the Crisis Home Treatment and Rapid Response Team 24/7 to a team of clinicians from different professions.
If successful, you will ensure a high-quality service is provided and care is delivered to all service users on the HTT and RR caseload who are experiencing a Mental Health Crisis, by the Trust’s policies and procedures and the care programme approach.
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)
Here are some clips of our KMPT staff, speaking about their role and why they enjoy working for us.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will contribute to the implementation of clinical and interdisciplinary strategies to ensure the delivery of a high standard of care and service objectives and to the overall corporate objectives of the organisation.
The post holder will work as a member of the Crisis Home Treatment Team ensuring team clinical performance is optimised and meeting agreed KPIs and ensure that CRHT is a responsive service providing timely assessment and offering a range of home treatment interventions as an alternative to hospital admission.
The post holder will have robust working relationships with colleagues within the acute and community settings; liaison psychiatry, place of safety, inpatient teams so seamless acute care is provided for service users.
The post holder will work in collaboration with colleagues from the community recovery care group, the local authority, primary care and other key stakeholders to ensure effective care delivery and timely onward care at point of discharge.
If you are interested in this post please contact Benita Reyes Medina - DGS Operational Team Manager / Alison Farthing Community Matron on 01322 622222 or submit an application.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Nursing registration or HCP equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Mentor Qualification or HCP equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Considerable experience of working within acute/community adult services with experience of working at a band 6 for min 2 years
Desirable criteria
- Considerable experience of working in a CRHT/Liaison Team
Skills
Essential criteria
- Mentoring, role modelling and essential coaching skills
- People Management skills and leadership skills
Desirable criteria
- Conflict resolution and problem solving
- Innovation desire
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Sound understanding of the principles of supervision and motivating others
- Sound knowledge and clinical skills in risk management
- Leadership management experience
Desirable criteria
- A sound and comprehensive understanding of recovery and social inclusion values and principles
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Benita Reyes Medina
- Job title
- Operational Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01322 622222
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
Eastern & Coastal Area Offices
Littlebourne Road
Canterbury
CT1 1AZ
- Telephone
- 01227 230855 | ext. 730855
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