Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-WK0249-A
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Ridge
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Mental Health Practitioner
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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Job overview
Are you an experienced mental health professional who enjoys working autonomously? Then we have an exciting role available in the Maidstone area which works to bridge the gap between Primary Care and Secondary Mental Health services by delivering high quality Mental Health care in Primary Care settings and ensuring peoples needs are met in a timely way.
A valid driving licence and access to a car are essential to this role due to the service requirements of working across multiple sites.
Main duties of the job
The role requires a highly competent, proficient practitioner, who is able to work autonomously and creatively in this busy demanding role. Excellent assessment skills and knowledge of local services are essential to this role. Experience of being in a leadership role is valuable. You will also be providing supervision to the band 6 Mental Health Practitioners across the locality.
Successful candidates must be experienced Mental Health Practitioners and have experience of working in a Primary Care and/or Community Mental Health Team setting. Roles are open to all professions. You will be a confident assertive communicator with colleagues and stakeholders alike.
Above all you will have the ambition and drive needed to work within an environment of change and innovation.
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 across the county.
The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.
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.
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main 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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A degree or equivalent qualification in Mental Health Nursing or other relevant healthcare profession
- State registration with the HCPC, Social Work Council or NMC
Desirable criteria
- Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 4 years post registration experience in mental health with at least 2 years’ experience of working within secondary care community mental health
- Experience of working collaboratively with other organisations
- Experience of supervising junior staff and students
Desirable criteria
- Experience working in primary care
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to work autonomously and use own initiative
- An advanced understanding of mental health problems and treatment options/models that can be used to assist recovery
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of Quality Improvement Programme
Skills
Essential criteria
- Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, cares/ families and all members of the multidisciplinary team
- Provide effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Good organisational skills
- Able to work flexibly and cooperatively as part of a team
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Able to travel independently and in a timely manner across the Primary Care Network Area in accordance with Trust policies and service need
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
- Sarah Hodge
- Job title
- General Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07919298115
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