An exciting opportunity has become available for a Band 7 Senior Practitioner to take on the clinical leadership responsibility for Crisis Home Treatment and Rapid Response Team 24/7 to a team of clinicians from different professions.
If successful, you will ensure a high-quality service is provided and care is delivered to all service users on the HTT and RR caseload who are experiencing a Mental Health Crisis, by the Trust's policies and procedures and the care programme approach.
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 of the job
* Contribute to the implementation of clinical and interdisciplinary strategies to ensure the delivery of a high standard of care and service objectives and to the overall corporate objectives of the organisation.
* Work as a member of the Crisis Home Treatment Team, ensuring team clinical performance is optimised, meeting agreed KPIs and ensuring that CRHT is a responsive service providing timely assessment and offering a range of home treatment interventions as an alternative to hospital admission.
* Have robust working relationships with colleagues within the acute and community settings; liaison psychiatry, place of safety, and inpatient teams, so seamless acute care is provided for service users.
About us
We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated 'Good' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.
Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.
Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It's why we're passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's working well together.
Job responsibilities
The post holder will work in collaboration with colleagues from the community recovery care group, the local authority, primary care and other key stakeholders to ensure effective care delivery and timely onward care at the point of discharge.
At Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust, 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.
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).
£49,387 to £56,515 a yearper annum (inclusive of high-cost area supplement)
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
* Nursing registration or HCP equivalent
* Mentor Qualification or HCP equivalent
Experience
* Considerable experience of working within acute/community adult services with experience of working at a band 6 for min 2 years
* Considerable experience of working in a CRHT/Liaison Team
Skills
* Mentoring, role modelling and essential coaching skills
* People Management skills and leadership skills
* Conflict resolution and problem solving
Knowledge
* Sound understanding of the principles of supervision and motivating others
* Sound knowledge and clinical skills in risk management
* A sound and comprehensive understanding of recovery and social inclusion values and principles
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.
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