Main area: West Kent Directorate - Acute Service Line
Grade: Band 3
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 380-WK0191
Site: Priority House, Maidstone
Town: Maidstone
Salary: £24,071 - £25,674 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 16/09/2024 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.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
Job overview
This is an opportunity to be a part of a dynamic service. You will be part of an established home treatment and rapid response team supporting patients who are acutely unwell in the community, providing the best level of care to them whilst remaining in their own homes. We provide support for individuals experiencing an acute episode in the community, as well as supporting people who have been discharged from inpatient wards. We provide a menu of interventions to ensure the highest level of care and support is delivered.
The service provides opportunities to develop your skills and your career. You will play a key role in the multi-disciplinary team supporting the qualified and other support workers. You will need experience working in mental health care settings, and experience of recovery-focused practice is required. Flexible working opportunities available; over 7 days a week. The team will cover the South West & West Kent Area.
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Main duties of the job
The main purpose of this role is to support service users to establish greater control over their lives, helping to identify aspects of life that give meaning, hope, value and purpose whilst recognising that each individual’s recovery is a distinctive and deeply personal process.
As an integral and valued member of the multi-disciplinary team, the post holder will provide support to individuals within the service, by role modelling and using lived experience of secondary mental health services.
This role will involve working with service users on a one-to-one or group basis, also working within the wider staff group to ensure that the environment supports the service user to reach their individual recovery goals. There will be a variety of tasks some of which will be service user initiated, whilst others will be requested by staff for the overall service provision. The post holder will work flexibly as the service requires.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Training, Qualifications and Registration
* Good IT skills including Word and Outlook
* Ability to use the RIO electronic records system
Experience
* Lived experience of secondary mental health services
* Willing to share own life experiences
* Minimum of 1 year experience working with people with mental health needs
Knowledge and Skills
* Car driver with full driver’s license and insurance.
* Good written and verbal communication skills.
* Flexibility to change and innovate
* The ability to work a variety of hours to suit the needs of service users and the service
* Willingness to complete job-specific training
Benefits
Your employer pays 20.6% 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 staff have national Terms and Conditions. Buying and selling of annual leave is also available as part of our flexible approach to staff benefits.
Additional Information
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. 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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