Team Manager

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Maidstone is seeking a qualified professional to lead a forensic mental health team. You will manage multi-disciplinary practitioners, oversee care coordination, and ensure high standards of service delivery in the community. The ideal candidate holds relevant qualifications and has significant experience in mental health care, particularly in forensic settings. Join a committed team focused on providing exemplary care.

Qualifications

• Registered member of a professional body.
• Minimum of 4 years post-registration experience in mental health.
• Experience in both inpatient and community settings.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of Mental Health Practitioners.
• Coordinate care for forensic clients in the community.
• Attend a wide range of internal and external meetings as FOLS representation.

Skills

Leadership

Mental health experience

Project management

Stakeholder liaison

Education

Degree or equivalent qualification

Practice Assessor Qualification

Job description

Overview

Go back Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

The closing date is 14 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).

In this role you will work with the multi-disciplinary Forensic Outreach and Liaison (FOL) Service and in conjunction with other statutory and non-statutory services, provide assessment and treatment for people with mental disorder/ illness, who have offended or are at risk of offending. The service is provided in the community across Kent and Medway, as well as working closely with inpatient teams in secure hospitals to ensure the safe and efficient discharge of patients to the community.

You will lead a team of Mental Health Practitioners, Support Time Recovery Workers and Peer Support Worker, ensuring high standards of care are provided at all times and providing leadership to the multi-disciplinary team within the FOLS.

You will be required to be part of the managers on call rota.

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).

Main duties

The post holder will be responsible for the line management of team members, and be the lead for the nursing team within FOLS. They will deputise for the Matron in their absence and be expected to attend a wide range of meetings, both internally and externally as the FOLS representation.

The post holder will carry a small mixed case load of forensic clients in the community and be responsible for their care coordination. They will also be responsible for overseeing the Mental Health Practitioners caseloads and be expected to be able to have a strategic view on the management of these.

The post holder will work with the Forensic Outreach and Liaison Service (FOLS) for Kent, working within the Kent, Surrey and Sussex FOLS service under South East, Adult Secure Services, New Care Model.

About us

FOLS is a community service based in the medium secure unit at the Trevor Gibbens Unit in Maidstone. The team is multi-disciplinary working across Kent and Medway.

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 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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At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Training and Qualifications and Registrations

• Registered member of a professional body/A degree or equivalent qualification/experience at post registration level
• Practice Assessor Qualification

Experience

• Leadership/Management Experience
• Experience working in an inpatient and community setting
• Minimum of 4 years post registration experience in mental health.
• Experience of working within mental health care, within the criminal justice system or forensic services
• Experience of liaison with a variety of stakeholders both internal and external
• Experience of managing projects or leading defined pieces of work

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

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