Home First Team Manager | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust; Ashford; Presencial; GBP 50.000 - 65.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a reliable Home First Team Manager to lead a multidisciplinary team delivering person-centred care at home, coordinating services to support recovery and independence.

The role requires strong operational leadership, workforce management and collaboration with partners across KEaH and GP/discharge teams; details and eligibility are provided in the job description.

Responsabilidades

• Oversee staff rotas and deployment to meet service demand.
• Manage a defined caseload including assessments, support planning and discharge coordination.
• Lead recruitment, induction and training, with ongoing mentoring and supervision.
• Monitor activity, outcomes and referral trends.
• Ensure safety, safeguarding, and incident learning with proper documentation.
• Collaborate with KEaH, community nursing, social care, GPs and discharge teams.
• Identify service improvements and support new care models.

Descripción del empleo

Home First Team Manager | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Company: Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts, the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Medway Community Healthcare or working on the Staff Bank within these organisations. Nursing and AHP vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses/AHPs.

We are recruiting for a reliable and adaptable Home First Team Manager to join our professional service.

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.

Key responsibilities include:

• Operational Leadership: Oversee the planning and coordination of staff rotas, ensuring appropriate deployment of support workers and assessors across the locality to meet service demands.
• Case and Workforce Management: Hold responsibility for the management of a defined caseload, ensuring timely assessments, support planning, and discharge coordination.
• Recruitment and Development: Lead on recruitment, induction, and training of staff. Promote a culture of continuous learning by supporting team members' development through mentoring, regular supervision, and performance reviews.
• Service Monitoring and Reporting: Maintain and improve local systems to monitor activity levels, outcomes, and referral trends.
• Quality, Safety, and Safeguarding: Promote and maintain a safe working environment for service users and staff. Respond to and escalates safeguarding, medication incidents, complaints, and other concerns as required, ensuring appropriate documentation and learning follow-up.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Work collaboratively with wider system partners including KEaH, community nursing, social care, GPs, and acute discharge teams to ensure seamless care pathways and positive outcomes for individuals.
• Innovation and Improvement: Identify areas for service development and support the implementation of new models of care or workflows that improve efficiency and patient experience.

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is due to integrate with Medway Community Healthcare on 1 October 2026. Following integration and to align our community services to the new Neighbourhood Model of care delivery, there will be a period of consultation which may result in changes affecting some services, teams or roles. Depending on the area you are applying to work in, this could include potential changes to your role, work base, reporting arrangements, or terms and conditions of employment. Any changes would be subject to consultation and managed sensitively and in line with relevant employment processes. Please do contact the recruiting manager if you have any concerns about this so they can answer any questions you might have.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by CQC, we deliver high-quality care that improves the health of our communities. We are looking for people who share our values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Responsive and Excellent.

We are proud to be an inclusive, welcoming organisation and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We use protected characteristic information for monitoring only and it is not seen by recruiting managers, except where applicants choose to be considered under our disability guaranteed interview scheme.

We know life outside work matters. As a flexible working-friendly organisation, we welcome conversations about arrangements that help you thrive while supporting excellent care for our patients.

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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 [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.

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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Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to teamKCHFT, cometocommunity.

This advert closes on Sunday 18 Oct 2026