Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust; Cranbrook; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team in a leading mental health organization dedicated to providing exceptional care and support. This role offers the opportunity to work autonomously while bridging the gap between primary care and specialist mental health services. You'll be responsible for delivering high-quality mental health care, supervising junior staff, and utilizing your strong assessment skills to meet the needs of patients effectively. With a commitment to innovation and excellence, this organization values its workforce and offers a range of benefits to enhance your work-life balance. If you're passionate about making a difference in mental health care, this is the role for you.

Benefits

27 days annual leave

NHS discounts and shopping vouchers

Learning and Development opportunities

New starter bonus of £1200

Pension contribution of 23.7%

Face to face counselling service

Qualifications

• 4+ years post-registration experience in mental health required.
• Experience in primary care and community mental health settings is essential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality mental health care in primary care settings.
• Provide supervision to junior mental health practitioners.

Skills

Assessment Skills

Communication Skills

Leadership Experience

Organizational Skills

Autonomous Working

Education

Degree in Mental Health Nursing

State Registration with HCPC/NMC

Post-graduate Qualification

Job description

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

Are you an experienced mental health professional who enjoys working autonomously? Then we have an exciting role available in the Weald of Kent area which works to bridge the gap between Primary Care and specialist Mental Health services by delivering high quality Mental Health care in Primary Care settings and ensuring people's needs are met in a timely way.

Main duties of the job

The role requires a highly competent, proficient practitioner, who is able to work autonomously and creatively in this busy and demanding role. Excellent assessment skills and knowledge of local services are essential to this role. Experience of being in a leadership role is valuable. You will also be providing supervision to the band 6 Mental Health Practitioners across the locality.

Successful candidates must be experienced Mental Health Practitioners and have experience of working in a Primary Care and/or Community Mental Health setting. Roles are open to all professions. You will be a confident assertive communicator with colleagues and stakeholders alike.

Above all you will have the ambition and drive needed to work within an environment of change and innovation.

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 of the main responsibilities of the role.

Person specification

Qualifications

• A degree or equivalent qualification in Mental Health Nursing or other relevant healthcare profession
• State registration with the HCPC, Social Work Council or NMC
• Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area

Experience

• Minimum of 4 years post registration experience in mental health with at least 2 years’ experience of working within secondary care community mental health
• Experience of working collaboratively with other organisations
• Experience of supervising junior staff and students
• Experience working in primary care

Knowledge

• Ability to work autonomously and use own initiative
• An advanced understanding of mental health problems and treatment options/models that can be used to assist recovery
• Knowledge of Quality Improvement Programme

Skills

• Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, cares/families and all members of the multidisciplinary team
• Provide effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice

Personal Attributes

• Good organisational skills
• Able to work flexibly and cooperatively as part of a team

Other requirements

• Able to travel independently and in a timely manner across the Primary Care Network Area in accordance with Trust policies and service need

Your employer pays 23.7% 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 staffs have national Terms and Conditions. Buying and selling of annual leave is also available as part of our flexible approach to staff benefits.

Staff Support

KMPT offers a face to face counselling service for any issues not just work related problems.

NHS discounts and shopping vouchers

Staff can sign up for Red Guava, PS discounts and Health Service Discounts to receive a variety of discounts in travel, fashion, technology, mobile phone contracts, food and drink, days out etc.

Learning and Development opportunities

In addition to the mandatory subjects there are a number of leadership, management and staff topic areas, including coaching and mentoring.

Induction
KMPT is committed to supporting all new staff and this includes a comprehensive Induction programme. The programme's duration depends on role and can be from 2 days to 4 weeks (not always consecutive days).

The Induction programme will provide an excellent opportunity for new staff to meet and engage with KMPT’s subject specialists and include the required training.

New starter bonus

At the Trust we really value our nurses and the skills they bring. To recognise this we offer a New Hire Bonus of £1200 pro rata for band 5 and 6 nursing staff.

Probation Period . New employees external to Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust are subject to a six-month probationary period.

To deliver an effective service it is essential in some of our roles that you are able to travel between work bases in a timely manner.

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 canALLbe 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.

Due to the high volume of applications received, it is not possible to respond individually to your application. Should you not hear from us within six weeks of the vacancy closing, please assume that your application has not been successful.