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-NK233
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Littlebrook Hospital, Dartford
- Town
- Dartford
- Salary
- £50,008 - £56,908 per annum (inclusive of high-cost area supplement)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Practitioner
Band 7
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce. 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
Please note, at this stage, the role is open only to internal staff (including NHSP and Agency staff currently on placement within our organisation) and staff substantively employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). Any individual who is at risk of redundancy will be given priority, provided they meet the essential criteria.
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).
Main duties of the job
- 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.
- Work as a member of the Crisis Home Treatment Team, ensuring team clinical performance is optimised, meeting agreed KPIs and ensuring that CRHT is a responsive service providing timely assessment and offering a range of home treatment interventions as an alternative to hospital admission.
- Have robust working relationships with colleagues within the acute and community settings; liaison psychiatry, place of safety, and inpatient teams, so seamless acute care is provided for service users.
Working for our organisation
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.
Our vision is simple: We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's doing well together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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 the point of discharge
At Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust, 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.
What is High Cost Area Allowance?
The High-Cost Area (HCA) allowance, also referred to as London Weighting is a payment made to employees who work in London and the surrounding areas.
As this post is based in Dartford, Gravesham or Swanley, the successful applicant will receive an additional payment each month.
5% of basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £1,303 per year and a maximum payment of £2,198 per year (the agreed annual amount will be divided into 12 equal amounts and paid monthly) (2025 figures).
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and the 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
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
- Benita Reyes Medina
- Job title
- Operational Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01322 622222
- Additional information
If you are interested in this post please contact Benita Reyes Medina - DGS Operational Team Manager / Aine Timmins (Service Manager) or Cheryl Lee (Interim Deputy Service Director) on 01322 622222 or submit an application.
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