Home First Team Manager

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health organization in Maidstone is seeking a Home First Team Manager to lead a multidisciplinary team for effective service delivery. The ideal candidate will manage day-to-day operations, ensure compliance with care standards, and support staff development. Candidates should have a background in health or social care and be willing to pursue relevant qualifications. This role does not meet sponsorship criteria, and applications must ensure right to work in the UK. Salary ranges from £38,682 to £46,580 annually, pro rata.

Qualifications

• Management or willingness to pursue a management qualification.
• Experience in Adult Social Care or Health Care.
• Experience of supervising staff.

Responsibilities

• Oversee planning and coordination of staff rotas.
• Monitor service delivery to comply with standards.
• Manage caseload and ensure timely assessments.

Skills

Ability to undertake and document formal risk assessments

Effective communication with all levels of staff

Prioritising workload in line with standards

Negotiating and interpersonal skills

Ability to support Equality and Diversity policies

Education

Management qualification at Level 5

Qualified NVQ Assessor

Job description

Go back Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Home First Team Manager

The closing date is 28 January 2026

The Home First Team Manager is responsible for the effective day-to-day operation of the Home First service.

This includes leading a multidisciplinary team of assessors, community support workers, and administrative staff to ensure the safe and timely delivery of person‑centred care that supports recovery and promotes independence at home.

Please note, this vacancy does not meet the criteria for skilled worker sponsorship and therefore, we are unable to accept applications from candidates that cannot provide documentary evidence of right to work in the United Kingdom. If you feel you qualify for sponsorship via a discounted salary threshold, please contact us via [e-mail] quoting the vacancy reference number and how you feel you qualify for a discounted salary threshold.

Main duties of the job

Oversee the planning and coordination of staff rotas, ensuring appropriate deployment of support workers and assessors across the locality to meet service demands.

Monitor service delivery to ensure it aligns with Home First priorities and complies with CQC standards, organisational procedures, and national regulatory framework.

Hold responsibility for the management of a defined caseload, ensuring timely assessments, support planning, and discharge coordination.

Provide direct line management to Band 5 and Band 4 Home First Assessors, community‑based support workers, and admin staff, ensuring they are well‑supported, supervised, and developed in line with service expectations.

About us

Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we've got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent.

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences.

We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn't visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission.

The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won't involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We'll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both.

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Job responsibilities

Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). Nursing vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses.

Job responsibilities

As a community Trust, many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non‑EU country) to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment. If you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [e-mail] quoting the vacancy reference number, so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non‑clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• Holding or willingness to work towards Management qualification at Level 5, Level 5 Diploma for Health and Social Care or equivalent
• Holding or willingness to work towards Qualified NVQ Assessor
• If it is stated in your Contract of Employment that you should be registered with an appropriate professional body, e.g. GSCC, then this registration must be maintained at all times

Experience

• Background in Adult Social Care and or Health Care or previous first line supervisor/line management experience
• Experience of supervising staff
• Experience of working to contract specifications and delivery to required standards.

Skills

• Ability to undertake and document formal risk assessments
• Ability to accurately assess client needs
• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of staff, People using the service and external contacts as required by the job
• Ability to prioritise own workload in line with operational procedures and standards
• Ability to monitor effectively others' work performance
• Ability to deliver services within budget and to contractual specification
• Excellent negotiating and interpersonal skills
• Ability to recruit, manage and develop a team of community-based Home First Support Workers, Home First admin staff and Home First Community Assessors.
• Ability to promote the service in full
• Ability to travel to meet the requirements of the service
• Ability and commitment to support the Directorate's Equality and Diversity Policy Statement, which is an integral part of the Directorate's service delivery and relationship with the client to respect people as individuals regardless of age, ethnic origin, cultural values, disability, gender, sexual orientation or religion

Knowledge

• Staff will be expected to work within national legislation and Corporate and Directorate policies and procedures relating to Health & Safety and those applicable to Health Appreciation of Diplomas in the management of care and relevant assessment techniques.
• Comprehensive awareness and understanding of the Outcomes as set out in the Health & Social Care Act 2008.
• Awareness of overall policies/procedures of department.
• Excellent understanding of enablement and how it fits the assessment process.
• Thorough awareness of legislative framework relating to the provision of enablement and domiciliary services.
• In depth knowledge of Safeguarding (Adult Protection) issues and need to promptly refer any concerns to Line Manager.
• Awareness of Data Protection and confidentiality issues.
• Awareness of and compliance with KCC equality and diversity policies, procedures and legislation

Ability to Manage

• Ability to manage own time effectively.
• Ability to prioritise care delivery in a professional manner, considering health and social care policies and procedures

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.

Employer name

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

£38,682 to £46,580 a year pro rata per annum