Crynodeb o'r swydd
- Prif leoliad
- MH Nursing, AHP and Social work
- Gradd
- Band 7
- Contract
- Parhaol
- Oriau
- Llawnamser - 37.5 awr yr wythnos (preferred to be able to work 5 day week.)
- Cyfeirnod y swydd
- 380-EK335
- Cyflogwr
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Math o gyflogwr
- NHS
- Gwefan
- Laurel House, Canterbury
- Tref
- Canterbury
- Cyflog
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yn flynyddol
- Yn cau
- 06/08/2025 23:59
Teitl cyflogwr
Clinical Lead- Peer Supported Open Dialogue
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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Trosolwg o'r swydd
A great opportunity to join Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) as the Clinical Lead for our innovative, peer-supported Open Dialogue team. One of the trial sites for the ODDESSI research into Open Dialogue.
This is a unique role for an experienced, compassionate, and forward-thinking clinical professional who is passionate about relationship-centred care, collaborative working, and whole-system transformation. You will play a central role in leading and shaping a standalone Open Dialogue service—one of the few of its kind within the NHS and supporting new growth of the model across the organisation.
As Clinical Lead, you will provide clinical leadership and support to a dedicated multi-disciplinary team delivering peer-supported Open Dialogue to individuals and families within KMPT. Working closely with the service lead, you will help embed and sustain systemic change, promote best practice, and ensure the highest standards of care.
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).
Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd
Providing clinical oversight and guidance to the Peer Supported Open Dialogue team.
Supporting the development and delivery of high-quality, relational care, that is based on high-quality, research-based evidence.
Working with service users and their social network throughout their journey of care.
Championing the principles of Open Dialogue and peer-supported practice.
Collaborating with system partners to support wider service transformation.
Contributing to training, supervision, and reflective practice within the team.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
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.
Check out our recruitment videos Recruitment - YouTube
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.
At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.
Manyleb y person
Training, Qualifications and Registration
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Registration with NMC, HCPC or UKCP or equivalent - 4 years post qualifying
- Training in Open Dialogue
Meini prawf dymunol
- Evidence of further CPD training in areas relevant for the client group or service ( e.g. therapy models, approaches for specific client groups, legislation, POD mentorship, NMP )
- Teaching qualification for students relevant to practice area.
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Good experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity. At least 1 years experience in a community MHT setting
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Good experience of working with individuals, couples, families and groups
- • Experience of liaising with staff and managers within other sectors of the health and social care systems.
- • Experience in undertaking clinically related research/audit
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience of working with in a POD service or using POD principles in clinical work
- Experience of supervising others
- Experience of being a team leader.
Knowledge and Skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Capacity to manage frequent exposure to highly distressing and emotive situations and disclosures.
- Capacity to tolerate frequent exposure to unpredictable working conditions including in clients own homes
- Deep understanding of the Open Dialogue model.
- Knowledge and understanding of the Peer practitioner element to the POD model
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to ‘hold’ the stress of others.
- Good and active team player- respectful of the different contributions of team members.
- Ability to work in a focussed, independent and effective way. Able to Prioritise demands and meet deadlines.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to work flexibly and use initiative, including working with change/uncertainty.
- Ability to make good use of supervision and be able to reflect on own work- sees the importance of supervision
Meini prawf dymunol
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Bathodynnau ardystio / achredu cyflogwyr
Gofynion ymgeisio
Rhaid i chi gael cofrestriad proffesiynol priodol yn y DU.
Mae'r swydd hon yn ddarostyngedig i Orchymyn Deddf Adsefydlu Troseddwyr 1974 (Eithriadau) 1975 (Diwygio) (Cymru a Lloegr) 2020 a bydd angen cyflwyno Datgeliad i'r Gwasanaeth Datgelu a Gwahardd.
Dogfennau i'w lawrlwytho
Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Emma Hogwood
- Teitl y swydd
- Lead for Peer-supported Open Dialogue
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 01227 812044
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