Job summary
- Main area
- Community mental health
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Some evening and weekend worked will be required.)
- Job ref
- 380-WK0178
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Various Community Mental Health Team sites across Kent and Medway
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 29/07/2024
Employer heading
Mental Health Clinician SUN Service
Band 6
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
Are you interested in improving the quality of care for people with a diagnosis or traits of personality disorder/complex Emotional Difficulties and associated difficulties?
Are you a registered mental health clinician?
Do you like to innovate and lead the way on new developments?
Do you believe in working in partnership with people with Lived Experience?
If this sounds like you then come and join this exciting new service. KMPT is growing its community services for people with personality disorders and would like to invite you to join a new service that is going to be delivered across the county. As part of the transformation of the care programme, a Service User Network (SUN) will be developed across the county, providing regular and accessible groups
facilitated in partnership with people with Lived Experience. The groups aim to help those who experience Complex Emotional Difficulties (CED) and are a new addition to the personality disorder pathway. The service model has open access and inclusivity and is embedded into the community sitting alongside KMPT.
We are seeking a band 6 practitioner to join the team. A professional qualification is required for the role, such as Mental Health Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Clinical Associate Psychologist, Social Work, or other mental health profession e.g. Arts Therapist, Psychotherapist, or counselling psychologist. You will also have experience of and interest in group facilitation.
Main duties of the job
- The provision of SUN groups co-facilitated with SUN lived Experience facilitators across Kent, both in person and online including evening sessions.
- Lead on production of RASP plans, manage safe clinically effective care
- Support the development of a group culture that is in keeping with SUN and Therapeutic Community ethos of support, inclusion, safety, and responsibility.
- Support management and supervision of Lived Experience
- Work in collaboration with other colleagues and service in the pathway providing services to people who are experiencing complex mental health problems including escalation for additional intervention if required.
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).
Working for our organisation
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.
Here are some clips of our KMPT staff, speaking about their role and why they enjoy working for us.
Canterbury site tour (youtube.com)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As part of a new team of Clinicians and SUN facilitators with lived experience, delivering a SUN (Service User Network) service across Kent the post holder with support and supervision from the Team leader and clinical lead will;
- Work in partnership with the MDT, CRHT, and Acute Inpatient Services, other community teams, and Primary Care to provide support and treatment to service users to attend SUN groups and facilitate the safe management of their needs within a community setting.
- Provide a prompt response to requests for information and advice in line with agreed response times.
- Deliver education and training that better support the SUN groups in the recovery of people with CED.
- To participate in the formal evaluation of the SUN service in liaison with the Band 7 Team Lead and the Clinical Lead of the service.
- Maintain awareness of current research within own area of specialist practice and demonstrate a commitment to evidence-based practice
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).
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional Qualification in Mental Health Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Clinical Associate Psychologist, Social Work or other mental health profession e.g. Arts therapist, Psychotherapist, counselling psychologist.
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience of working with people with a diagnosis of personality disorder or traits of this that interfere in their daily functioning
- • Experience of facilitating groups within a mental health setting.
- • Experience of risk assessment and management of people with a diagnosis or traits of personality disorder.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Competent assessment skills
- Can demonstrate the ability to manage change
- • Able to demonstrate and understand the concept of community care and the need to develop good networks
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Cathy Bowen
- Job title
- Team Leader, Service user Network (SUN)
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07707152244
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