Team Leader

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust; Dartford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Dartford seeks a Team Leader RMN to oversee a low secure psychiatric unit. Candidates must hold an RMN degree and possess experience in secure mental health services. Responsibilities include clinical leadership and support for staff. The role offers a salary between £40,617 and £48,778 per year, including a high-cost area supplement.

Benefits

High-cost area allowance

Qualifications

• Post registration experience of working as a nurse within Secure Mental Health Service.
• Full, valid UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for business purposes.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of clinical leadership and quality priorities.
• Ensure the well-being of patients, staff, and visitors.
• Maintain adherence to Trust policies and procedures.

Skills

Good Organisational Skills

Excellent verbal communication

Ability to manage staff

Knowledge of relevant legislation

Time management

Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team

Education

RMN Degree or Equivalent

Job description

Go back Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Team Leader

The closing date is 02 October 2025

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).

The Forensic Low Secure & Learning Disability Forensic Inpatient service has opportunities for a Band 6 Team Leader (RMN) at the Allington and Tarentfort Centres located in Dartford.

The Allington Centre is a 20 bed low secure inpatient service for forensic services. We specialise in the assessment and treatment of adults with complex mental health needs, who require care in a low secure setting, in response to offending, risky and/or challenging behaviours.

Tarentfort Centre is a 20 bedded specialist Low Secure Unit for the treatment and care of adult males/transgender females (whose risks to others cannot be managed in a female ward), who have confirmed or suspected identities as people with intellectual disability and/or autistic people and who may have additional mental health diagnoses. All people admitted to the Tarentfort Centre must also have been detained under MHA 1983/2007.

Main duties of the job

Support the Ward Managers and Matron in the delivery of clinical leadership, practice and achievement of quality priorities within inpatient learning disability and autism services.

Ensure that the well-being of patients, staff and visitors is paramount to the ward ethos.

Support the strategic objectives of the Trust through maintaining adherence of staff and of self to all Trust polices and procedures.

This is a clinically based role where daily visible leadership is expected.

What is High Cost Area Allowance?

The High-Cost Area (HCA) allowance, also referred to as London Weighting, is a payment made to employees who work in London and the surrounding areas.

As this post is based in Dartford, Gravesham or Swanley, the successful applicant will receive an additional payment each month.

5% of basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £1,303 per year and a maximum payment of £2,198 per year (the agreed annual amount will be divided into 12 equal amounts and paid monthly) (2025 figures)

About us

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 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 strategyOur mission is what we set out to do every dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the futureTo 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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Job responsibilities

The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)

Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• RMN Degree or Equivalent

Experience

• Post registration experience of working as a nurse within Secure Mental Health Service

Knowledge and Skills

• Good Organisational Skills and time management
• Excellent verbal, interpersonal and written communication
• Computer Literate
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to manage staff including performance, sick absence and probation
• Up to date knowledge of relevant legislation, policy and procedures relating to treatment and care of patients

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.

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

£40,617 to £48,778 a year (inclusive of high-cost area supplement)