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.
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.
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.
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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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.
This advert closes on Thursday 6 Mar 2025
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