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.

**A Secondment Opportunity Will Also Be Considered**

We are seeking a fixed-term Assist and Embrace Co-Ordinator who will be responsible for developing, implementing and evaluating our Assist and Embrace project.  The project will in-reach our often hard to engage patients with complex emotional needs and requires a highly self-motivated, energetic, dynamic, creative individual who has a track record of implementing change, quickly.

The project will support and engage patients who present in crisis and with complex emotional needs, preventing unnecessary admission to acute wards as well as facilitating safe, timely discharge from both local acute wards and out of area placements.  

It will offer patients both individual and group sessions, and help patients towards commencing an identified and agreed psychological treatment.  This may be in a community health setting, within the Therapeutic Communities, with the SUN groups, or with other relevant interventions as appropriate.

Main duties of the job

Develop Kent wide the Assist (and Embrace) model for adults with complex emotional needs. The project requires a dynamic and creative individual who has a track record of implementing change. 

You will need proven experience in coproduction and working with a democratic style of leadership.  Experience of working in a mental health care setting is essential.

The post holder will lead on building a strong interface between relevant services, gaining in-reach to patients, and managing and co-ordinating a team of clinicians.  They will also conduct assessments and formulations, reviews and take part in supporting activities for patients.  They will be responsible for providing management supervision, professional support and guidance to therapists and other workers in the service, including close working with the voluntary sector of KMPT, alongside evaluating the project and producing regular data analysis and reporting.

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.