Job summary
- Main area
- West Kent Directorate - Adult Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-WK0277
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Albion Place
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Operational Team Manager
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
Do you want to be part of something new and exciting, a person-centred mental health revolution?
Together, we're stronger. Join the multi-agency drive for better mental health care.
Mental Health Together (MHT) is a revolutionary initiative of multi-agency collaboration to deliver holistic primary care services to the people of Maidstone, that aims to promote the meeting of all life domains where that affects service users' mental health.
We are seeking a transformational leader and manager to be responsible for utilising data and information from a range of sources to manage, monitor and maintain safe and effective day-to-day delivery of primary care services.
You will ensure the Maidstone MHT service performs at a high level, meeting key performance indicators and putting measures in place to address any areas of shortfalls.
This will include ensuring that staff feel empowered and invested in delivering excellence, and supporting them to achieve this. You will also be responsible for managing resources, including manging a budget.
Main duties of the job
- Be accountable for teams’ performance, operational delivery of safe and effective care and budget management in Community Services for adults over 18 years of age.
- Empower staff to deliver high service performance by utilising a transformative and proactive approach
- Meet the required local and national targets and standards in relation to quality, performance governance, workforce planning and finance.
- Develop a positive team “can do” attitude and culture through role modelling and setting out team expectation.
- Strategic management of targets and performance, including waiting time and caseload management, day to day operational management which includes staff management such as wellbeing, sickness, absences, e-rostering, governance and financial management.
- Provision of Managerial Supervision and Appraisal.
- Joint responsibility for CQC expectations
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.
Check out our recruitment videos Recruitment - YouTube
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
What is Mental Health Together?
In Kent and Medway, the community mental health transformation has created a new service model called Mental Health Together.
It is a multi-agency offer, which means bringing all the services and agencies that support people with varying mental health needs much closer together. This ensures that people get the right care, without having to navigate service boundaries and without repeatedly telling their story.
Mental Health Together will add new roles, as part of a new joined-up model of care which bridges the gap that currently exists between primary (i.e. GPs) and community mental health (i.e. KMPT). It will treat people with complex mental health needs by:
- Providing someone with support in a person-centred, holistic way
- Removing barriers to access, and thresholds across services working together
- Involving service users and carers as equal partners in their care
- Building in involvement and co-production at all levels of service design delivery
- Delivering needs-led and personalised trauma-informed care
Mental Health Together on Vimeo
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
- Registered MH nurse, OT or MH SW
- Teaching & assessing qualification
- Ability to travel across sites
Desirable criteria
- Management/leadership qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Working as a band 6 clinician in a community MH team
- Supervisory/leadership experince
Desirable criteria
- Managing staff goups
- Change management
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good understanding of CMHF and NHS modernisation agenda
- Sound knowledge of legislation relevant to area of practice, i.e. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of improvement methodologies and change management
- Sound understanding of QI framework and application.
- Sound knowledge of KMPT systems
Skills
Essential criteria
- Supervision/ mentoring/ coaching
- Highly developed written and verbal communication skills
- Proven organisational skills
Desirable criteria
- Proven ability to use business intelligence data to improve performance
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jai Adelakun
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07860378541
- Additional information
Mercy Chiwara
07818584056
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