Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-AC0582
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Priority House
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Health Based Place of Safety Manager
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
Operational responsibility and leadership for the Place of Safety Teams 24/7 overseeing a team of clinicians and support workers and ensuring high quality care and service provision is delivered to all clients on the caseload who are detained under Section 136 of MHA '83.
Main duties of the job
To work as a core member of the Place of Safety Team, ensuring clinical care is of the highest standard, meeting agreed KPI's and National Fidelity standards.
To Work Operationally and clinically to support junior staff with complex patients and decision making.
Demonstrate professional leadership both internally and externally to the Acute Directorate.
Financial responsibility for the budgets of the individual teams
People management.
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 in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated 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 day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As a trust we are currently going through a transformation which sees us moving to a centralised Health Based Place of Safety in Spring 2025 which will be located at Priority House. The post holder will be involved in the design and supporting the transition of the current three teams with the re-location.
The post holder requires excellent Communication, people and financial management.
Please see the attached job description for full details of the role.
Person specification
fulfill JD
Essential criteria
- grades
- experience
Desirable criteria
- experience
Interview
Essential criteria
- Achieved grades/experience
- Essential criteria mandatory
Desirable criteria
- experience
- length of service
face to face
Essential criteria
- grades
Desirable criteria
- experience
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Cheryl lee
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07795642338
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