Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Kent and Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust; Gillingham; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Kent and Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust as a Mental Health Practitioner in the vibrant Medway Towns. This role focuses on delivering top-notch mental health care in primary settings while supervising a dynamic team of professionals. Enjoy great professional development opportunities in a supportive environment dedicated to compassionate care.

Qualifications

• Experienced Mental Health Practitioner with a focus on Primary Care.
• Excellent assessment skills and knowledge of local services required.
• Experience in a leadership role and providing supervision.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality Mental Health care in Primary Care settings.
• Supervise band 6 Mental Health Practitioners across the locality.
• Work autonomously and creatively in a busy role.

Skills

Assessment skills

Communication

Leadership

Job description

Are you an experienced mental health professional who enjoys working autonomously?

Then we have an exciting role available in the Medway Towns area, which works to bridge the gap between Primary Care and Secondary 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.

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

Successful candidates must be experienced Mental Health Practitioners with experience of working in a Primary Care and/or Community Mental Health Team 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.

Requirements:

• Hold a full, valid UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle for business purposes (unless disabled as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

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 serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will join friendly, passionate colleagues committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones. Our work environment values kindness and compassion as standard, recognizing everyone from cleaners and porters to senior leadership as vital in providing 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 work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

Check out our recruitment videos: Recruitment - YouTube

For further details or informal visits, contact:

• Name: Collette Chamberlain
• Job title: General Manager
• Email: [e-mail]
• Telephone: [phone]