Deputy Manager

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust; Dover; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Dover is seeking a Deputy Manager for its East Kent Community Rehabilitation Service. The ideal candidate will be a registered mental health nurse with excellent leadership and interpersonal skills, aiming to improve lives of individuals with complex mental health needs. This role includes supporting the Unit Manager and leading best practices within a well-resourced team, offering development opportunities and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Exceptional professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years experience as a Band 5.
• Evidence of post qualifying continued learning.
• Previous NHS experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide day to day support to the Unit Manager.
• Coordinate comprehensive assessment of service users.
• Act as a Clinical Lead supporting best practices.
• Facilitate and review approved Quality Improvement initiatives.

Skills

Organizational skills

Leadership skills

Interpersonal skills

Risk assessment knowledge

Education

Registered with the NMC

Qualified practice assessor

Completed Edward Jenner Programme

Evidence of continuing professional development

Tools

IT skills

Job description

Go back Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Deputy Manager

The closing date is 23 September 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the East Kent Community Rehabilitation Service at Rivendell.

The team requires a Deputy Unit Manager and the successful candidate should be an enthusiastic and motivated registered mental health nurse with sound knowledge and skills to take on this challenging but rewarding role.

This is a 12 month secondment so would be an ideal opportunity for an individual wanting to develop their leadership skills.

Rivendell is situated in Eastry, near Sandwich and is one of 6 Rehabilitation Units across Kent, which provides specialist inpatient rehabilitation for individuals with complex mental health and psychological needs. The unit comprises 10 single bedrooms and is staffed 24 hour a day, 7 days a week.

The multidisciplinary team provides a wide range of individualized interventions delivered by nursing, medical, psychological, occupational therapy and peer support clinicians.

You will also have excellent interpersonal skills to manage and supervise staff effectively.

You will be working with a wide range of experienced and friendly professionals providing high quality care with compassion.

Main duties of the job

We believe in clinically led, management supported services and want to strengthen nurse leadership to provide safe, compassionate, creative services which really make a difference to patient lives.

• You will therefore be an excellent clinician, committed to the concept of person centred care and recovery.
• You will have the ability to influence, enthuse and enable, a role model who leads from the front and by example you will use your clinical expertise to improve practice, to challenge tradition and to work with the team to create a culture of therapeutic optimism and hope.
• The candidate will be resilient, tenacious and ready for a challenge, who will support and develop staff to provide the kind of service you would want to recommend to family, carers and friends.
• We will offer development opportunities, supervision, reflective practice, mentoring and coaching and will ensure you are fully supported in your new role.
• A working knowledge of serious and enduring mental health conditions, such as complex psychosis is essential.

About us

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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Job responsibilities

• The Deputy Manager will provide day to day support to the Unit Manager, to carry out appropriate delegated tasks.
• To act up in the Unit Manager's absence.
• The Deputy Manager will be responsible for coordinating the comprehensive assessment of service users.
• Screening referrals and completing assessments.
• Work collaboratively with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure effective delivery of the Rehabilitation Therapeutic Intervention programme.
• The successful candidate will also act as a Clinical Lead supporting best practice in line with NMC, NICE guidance and Trust Policy.
• Facilitate and review approved Quality Improvement initiatives within the care setting.
• Lead on Quality Clinical documentation; CliQ checks.
• There is a strong commitment to supervision, training and regular appraisal, which you will receive and deliver to the Band 5 Nurses.
• Risk management, to include InPhase and Risk Register
• E-Roster
• Facilitation of meetings; client reviews, staff meetings, training.
• Coaching, role modelling and mentoring staff and students

If you are motivated, committed and enthusiastic about improving the lives of people with complex mental health needs, have a progressive approach leadership and are looking for variety and a challenge in your day to day work we would be interested in hearing from you.

Please see job description for full details.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Training

• Registered with the NMC
• Qualified practice assessor
• Completed Edward Jenner Programme
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Knowledge & Skills

• Significant knowledge of and ability to apply relevant legislative frameworks and policies relating to care e.g. Mental Capacity Act
• A comprehensive understanding and ability to apply principles of risk assessment and risk management
• To be competent in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care
• Effective organisational /planning and decision making skills
• Understanding of current quality improvement initiatives
• Significant awareness of clinical governance and its relationship to clinical effectiveness and patient safety and patient experience
• Enhanced leadership skills e.g. taking charge, delegation of duties, supervising others.
• Good knowledge and practice of IT skills.
• Knowledge and understanding of the NMC Code of Conduct
• Ability to support and develop an environment which ensures effective clinical care and innovation.

Experience

• Minimum of 3 years experience as a Band 5
• Evidence of post qualifying continued learning
• Previous NHS experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust