Mental Health Act Hearings Co-ordinator | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust; Canterbury; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking a Mental Health Act Hearings Co-ordinator for a six-month maternity cover position. This hybrid role involves managing patient reviews, liaising with professionals for report submissions, and ensuring compliance with Mental Health Act legislation. Excellent communication skills are essential. The closing date for applications is 17 Sep 2025.

Responsibilities

• Arrange all patient Associate Hospital Managers reviews in a timely manner.
• Liaise with professionals to ensure timely submission of reports.
• Ensure all decisions are cascaded to participants.
• Maintain internal processes and spreadsheets up to date accordingly.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Job description

Overview

The Mental Health Act Hearings Co-ordinator is an integral post within the expanding Mental Health Administration Team. This six-month maternity cover position is hybrid in line with Trust policy.

Responsibilities

• Arrange all patient Associate Hospital Managers reviews in a timely manner.
• Liaise with professionals to ensure timely submission of reports.
• Ensure all patient reviews are undertaken in accordance with the Mental Health Act legislation and code of practice.
• Ensure all decisions are cascaded to participants.
• Maintain internal processes and spreadsheets up to date accordingly.
• To arrange patient reviews, liaise to establish reports in a timely manner, work on spreadsheets using Excel and complete databases accordingly.

Requirements / Skills

• Have excellent communication skills.

About KMPT

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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Contract / Closing

This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Sep 2025