Team Manager | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Maidstone is seeking a qualified leader for their Forensic Outreach and Liaison Service. The role involves leading a multidisciplinary team, managing forensic client care, and ensuring effective collaboration with other services. Candidates should have experience in mental health leadership and a valid UK driving license. The application deadline is 14 Oct 2025.

Qualifications

• Full, valid UK driving licence and access to a car for business purposes.
• Experience in mental health leadership, team supervision, and line management.
• Ability to work within a forensic outreach framework.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Mental Health Practitioners and Peer Support Worker.
• Manage a mixed caseload of forensic clients in the community.
• Collaborate with statutory and non-statutory services.

Skills

Mental health leadership

Team supervision

Care coordination

Job description

Overview

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, and works closely with inpatient teams in secure hospitals to ensure the safe and efficient discharge of patients to the community.

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.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Mental Health Practitioners, Support Time Recovery Workers and a Peer Support Worker, ensuring high standards of care and providing leadership to the multi-disciplinary team within FOLS.
• Be part of the managers on-call rota.
• Be responsible for line management of team members and be the lead for the nursing team within FOLS; deputise for the Matron in their absence; attend a wide range of meetings internally and externally as the FOLS representation.
• Carry a small mixed caseload of forensic clients in the community and be responsible for their care coordination; oversee the Mental Health Practitioners’ caseloads and maintain a strategic view on management of these caseloads.
• Work with the Forensic Outreach and Liaison Service (FOLS) for Kent, operating within the Kent, Surrey and Sussex FOLS service under South East, Adult Secure Services, New Care Model.
• Collaborate with other statutory and non-statutory services to ensure seamless care and appropriate discharge planning.
• Join friendly, passionate colleagues committed to providing excellent care to service users and their loved ones.
• Support the organization values where kindness and compassion are standard and all staff contribute to providing an exemplary service.

Location and Service Details

The FOLS service is based in Maidstone and operates across Kent and Medway, with involvement from inpatient teams in secure hospitals to support discharge planning and continuity of care.

Requirements and Qualifications

• Full, valid UK driving licence and access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
• Experience in mental health leadership, team supervision and line management of staff within a multidisciplinary setting.
• Ability to work within a forensic outreach framework and coordinate care across community and inpatient settings.

Our Culture and Strategy

We are 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 cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman is recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our strategy: We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people.
Our mission is what we set out to do every day. Our vision is 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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Application and Closing

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

This advert closes on Tuesday 14 Oct 2025.