Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health Act Administration
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Secondment: 6 months (None)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (None)
- Job ref
- 380-SS0653
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hybrid
- Town
- Canterbury
- Salary
- £24,625 - £25,674 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Mental Health Act Hearings Co-ordinator*%
NHS AfC: Band 3
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
The Mental Health Act Hearings Co-ordinator is an integral post within the expanding Mental Health Administration Team. This position is primarily to arrange all patient's Associate Hospital Managers reviews within a timely manner.
The post is for six months to cover maternity leave as a Hybrid position.
Main duties of the job
To liaise with professionals for timely submission of reports.
To ensure all patient reviews are undertaken in accordance with the mental health act legislation and code of practice.
To ensure all decisions are cascaded to participants.
To keep internal processes and spreadsheets upto date accordingly.
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.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To arrange patient reviews
Liaison to establish reports in a timely manner
Work on spreadsheets using Excel and complete databases accordingly.
Have excellent communication skills
Person specification
Excellent interpersonal skills
Essential criteria
- Administration experience
- One year experience
Desirable criteria
- Good Time Management
Good use of word packages
Essential criteria
- Have excellent keyboard skills
Desirable criteria
- Good knowledge of an NHS setting
Good Communication skills
Essential criteria
- Good communication skills
Desirable criteria
- Working with Excel package
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Clair Rudden-Vine
- Job title
- Head of Service - Mental Health Act Administration
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07884 957842
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