Job summary
- Main area
- Liaison Psychiatry
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon to Fri 9-5)
- Job ref
- 380-NK169-B
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medway Maritime Hospital
- Town
- Gillingham
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Business Manager Liaison Psychiatry
NHS AfC: Band 5
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
To oversee the operational and strategic management of the business administration systems supporting the Directorate Psychiatric Liaison Services to ensure that facilities and resources are managed effectively in line with Core 24.
The post provides equal support to North Kent's two liaison psychiatry teams. It is therefore envisaged that 50% of the working week will be dedicated to Medway Liaison Psychiatry Team based at Medway Maritime Hospital and 50% to Dartford Liaison Psychiatry Team based at Darent Valley Hospital
The post is based at Medway Maritime Hospital and there is expectation that the post-holder will need to attend the Dartford Liaison Team at Darent Valley Hospital on a regular basis
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
To provide professional and managerial leadership to the administrative staff and related support services. To ensure that processes are of high quality and appropriately targeted and developed within a recognised framework.
The post holder, in collaboration with the Service Lead and Team leaders, will ensure that the service operates efficiently and effectively, achieving all the data quality, clinical activity and income targets.
The post-holder will ensure that the service is compliant with all appropriate with Trust policies and initiatives and will assist with implementing or developing required actions in support of efficient service delivery.
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.
Here are some clips of our KMPT staff, speaking about their role and why they enjoy working for us.
Canterbury site tour (youtube.com)
Dartford site tour (youtube.com)
Jessica Delo - Clinical Associate Psychologist (youtube.com)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 2 years' experience in similar role
- GCSEs or equivalent qualifications in English Language (A-C grade) and Mathematics (A-C grade)
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of use of excel
- Previous experience of producing data reports
Experience
Essential criteria
- Senior level secretarial and administration experience
- Be able to produce data charts
- Evidence ability to write reports
Desirable criteria
- Ability to supervise staff
- Experience of working in the NHS
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Proven use of office systems and procedures
- Proficient use of Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Desirable criteria
- Experience of NHS systems and databases
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Aine Timmins
- Job title
- North Kent Service Manager LPS, HTT/RR
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07521000162
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