Senior Mental Health Practitioner
The closing date is 23 September 2025
Are you an experienced mental health professional who enjoys working autonomously?
Then we have an exciting role available in the Gravesend Alliance/Springfield Health PCN (Gravesend locality). The role helps to bridge the gap between Primary Care and specialist 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.
There will be a requirement to travel between various GP surgeries in the locality, in a timely manner.
Main duties of the job
The role requires a highly competent, proficient practitioner, who is able to work autonomously and creatively in this busy and demanding role. Excellent assessment skills and knowledge of local services are essential to this role. Experience of being in a leadership role is valuable. You will also be providing supervision to the band 6 Mental Health Practitioners across the locality.
Successful candidates must be experienced Mental Health Practitioners and have experience of working in a Primary Care and/or Community Mental Health 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.
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 across the county.
The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.
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
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.
Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main responsibilities of the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* A degree or equivalent qualification in Mental Health Nursing or other relevant healthcare profession
* State registration with the HCPC, Social Work Council or NMC
* Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area
Experience
* Minimum of 4 years post registration experience in mental health with at least 2 years' experience of working within secondary care community mental health
* Experience of working collaboratively with other organisations
* Experience of supervising junior staff and students
* Experience working in primary care
Knowledge
* Ability to work autonomously and use own initiative
* An advanced understanding of mental health problems and treatment options/models that can be used to assist recovery
* Knowledge of Quality Improvement Programme
Skills
* Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, cares/ families and all members of the multidisciplinary team
* Provide effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice
Personal Attributes
* Good organisational skills
* Able to work flexibly and cooperatively as part of a team
Other requirements
* Able to travel independently and in a timely manner across the Primary Care Network Area in accordance with Trust policies and service need
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
£47,810 to £54,710 a yearper annum (Inclusive of High Cost Area Supplement)
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