Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-WK0318
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Highlands House, Tunbridge Wells
- Town
- Tunbridge Wells
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Pathway Lead
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 primary care services to the people of SWK Kent, which aims to promote the meeting of all life domains that affect service users' mental health. We are seeking an experienced nurse, OT, or Social Worker who will be responsible for ensuring safe and focused decision-making to determine the most appropriate clinical pathway for each referral arriving in SW Kent MHT. You will ensure that processes support the timely assessment and treatment of all referrals, and efficient transition to MHT+ or other services when required.
You will have a track record of effective networking and relationship building, as this will depend on the ability to work effectively with our external partners who provide MHT assessment and intervention, & MHT+ and specialist services in KMPT.
This will ensure that the Trust’s strategy of patients receiving the right (evidence-based) treatment, at the right time and place, is realised. You will assess complex patients, who may present a high risk and offer interventions when appropriate.
You will have demonstrated an ability to identify clinical risk and triage/prioritise the allocation of clinical resources accordingly and have developed good leadership skills.
Main duties of the job
- Act as a senior decision-maker for patients referred to the Mental Health Together Service, ensuring the most appropriate onward pathways are identified and prompt assessment and interventions offered.
- The post-holder will act in a supervisory capacity to support practitioners in decision-making for the most complex and/or high risk referrals.
- Offer expert advice and support to all professionals referring into the Mental Health Together service and have excellent relationships with all internal and external partner agencies, including primary care, adult social care and the third sector.
- Work in collaboration with the Mental Health Together Team Manager to ensure the highest standards of practice and service delivery.
- Contribute to the transformation of community mental health services in line with the Trust’s strategic objectives.
- Support decision-making at all stages of a person’s journey through Mental Health Together and deputise for the Team Manager in their absence.
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.
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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
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered MH Nurse, MH SW or OT
- Management/clinical leadership qualification or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of relevant CPD
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of working as a Band 6 within a Community Mental Health Services.
- Experience of working with both younger and older adults
- Experience of managing a complex case load
- Experience of building professional networks
- Supervisory/leadership experience
Desirable criteria
- Change management
- Audit/quality improvement
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Adult and child safeguarding procedures
- In depth knowledge of community mental health interventions and resources across a range of providers
- Working knowledge of MHA and Care Act
- Understanding of Community Mental health Framework
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to assess clinical needs and risk quickly
- Ability to work under pressure and ability to contain and manage the stress of others and oneself
- Ability to implement safe risk management, strategies to ensure safe and effective practice within a culture of positive risk taking.
- Good clinical skills in working with people with complex trauma
- Ability to motivate staff and promote positive team moral
- Competent with using Microsoft office
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
- Bonita King
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07976 906994
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