Main area West Kent Directorate - Adult Mental Health
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Flexible working requests considered if they meet service needs)
Job ref: 380-EK259
Site: Laurel House, Canterbury
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 04/02/2025 23:59
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.
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 SWK Kent, 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 SW Kent 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 managing a budget.
Main duties of the job
1. 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.
2. Empower staff to deliver high service performance by utilising a transformative and proactive approach.
3. Meet the required local and national targets and standards in relation to quality, performance governance, workforce planning and finance.
4. Develop a positive team “can do” attitude and culture through role modelling and setting out team expectation.
5. 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.
6. Provision of Managerial Supervision and Appraisal.
7. 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
Knowledge
* 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.
* Knowledge of improvement methodologies and change management.
* Sound understanding of QI framework and application.
* Sound knowledge of KMPT systems.
Skills
* Supervision/mentoring/coaching.
* Highly developed written and verbal communication skills.
* Proven organisational skills.
* Proven ability to use business intelligence data to improve performance.
Your employer pays 23.7% towards your pension and life assurance benefits.
27 days for full time or pro rata if part time.
After 5 years NHS service: 29 days full time or pro rata if part time.
After 10 years NHS service: 33 days full time or pro rata if part time.
Plus bank holidays, that’s up to 41 days - more than 8 weeks paid time off!
Medical staffs have national Terms and Conditions.
Recommend a friend campaign: If you already work for us you could refer a friend from outside of the Trust to any of the roles below and you can receive £1000 if they are successfully recruited; Nursing staff - RMN RGN RNLD - Band 5 and 6, Medical Doctors, Clinical Psychologist and Allied Health Professionals.
This can cover job share, term time working, flexible shifts etc. Just ask and we will try to help.
Statutory and occupational maternity, paternity or adoption leave: Dependant on length of NHS service.
Other paid/unpaid leave: This can be for Jury Service, Reserved Armed Forces, etc. This is paid outside of annual leave.
Non-paid leave for career breaks.
Staff Support: KMPT offers a face to face counselling service for any issues not just work related problems.
NHS discounts and shopping vouchers: Staff can sign up for Red Guava, PS discounts and Health Service Discounts to receive a variety of discounts in travel, fashion, technology, mobile phone contracts, food and drink, days out etc.
Learning and Development opportunities: In addition to the mandatory subjects there are a number of leadership, management and staff topic areas, including coaching and mentoring.
Induction: KMPT is committed to supporting all new staff and this includes a comprehensive Induction programme. The programme's duration depends on role and can be from 2 days to 4 weeks (not always consecutive days).
New starter bonus: At the Trust we really value our nurses and the skills they bring. To recognise this we offer a New Hire Bonus of £1200 pro rata for band 5 and 6 nursing staff.
Staff Network Forums: A variety of staff network forums which empower, support and encourage network members and allies, to reflect KMPT values and promote equality and diversity.
Lease car scheme, Cycle to work scheme, the list goes on!
Probation Period: New employees external to Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust are subject to a six-month probationary period.
To deliver an effective service it is essential in some of our roles that you are able to travel between work bases in a timely manner.
Production of false or forged documents/qualifications in order to obtain employment is a criminal offence and will be reported to the Police.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check: Certain roles are subject to criminal record checks called Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks. Therefore, you will be required to submit a completed Disclosure form to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
KMPT are signed up to NHS England's Sexual Safety in Health Care Organisational Charter.
KMPT takes a systematic zero-tolerance approach to tackle any unwanted, inappropriate and/or harmful sexual behaviours within the workplace and in our care provision. We are committed to sexual safety which encompasses prevention, support and decisive action against perpetrators. We are committed to keeping you and our patients safe.
KMPT is creating an environment for equal opportunities for all, where we can ALL be ourselves.
We take pride in our services – which are underpinned by our Trust values:
* Respect: We value people as individuals, we treat others as we would like to be treated.
* Openness: Work in a collaborative, transparent way.
* Accountability: We are professional and responsible for our actions.
* Working together: We work together to make a difference for our service users.
* Innovation: We find creative ways to run efficient, high quality services.
* Excellence: We listen and learn to continually improve our knowledge and ways of working.
In cases where we receive a high volume of applications for a post, it may be necessary to bring the closing date forward. Please submit your completed application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
Due to the high volume of applications received, it is not possible to respond individually to your application. Should you not hear from us within six weeks of the vacancy closing, please assume that your application has not been successful.
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