Job summary
- Main area
- Forensics and Specialist Services Directorate
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-FR0450
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trevor Gibbens Unit, Maidstone
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Support Time & Recovery Worker Forensic Outreach Liaison Service
Band 3
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
The Forensic Outreach and Liaison Service is a service for Kent, providing a safe, effective and timely pathway from medium/low secure care into the community, for people requiring ongoing specialist forensic mental health care following a secure inpatient admission. The service will provide ongoing care and support for those individuals requiring specialist intervention to address risks and psychological needs and works to support social care needs, which if these failed could potentially lead to relapse and reoffending.
The service is within the South East, Adult Secure Services, New Care Model and will work in parity and close partnership with Surrey and Sussex Forensic Services.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work within the community forensic and liaison service, based at the Trevor Gibbens Unit with close support from the Mental Health Practitioners and Senior STR worker. This role will be part of a multi-disciplinary team, with a commitment to delivering recovery focused, patient centred care to people with mental disorder/illness, who have offended or are at risk of offending. The service is provided in the community, as well as working closely with inpatient teams in secure hospitals to ensure the safe and efficient discharge of patients to the community.
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 in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
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 is recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Disciplines:
Act as a positive role model for colleagues and others in relation to professional and personal conduct and practice.
Clients:
To establish and maintain effective liaison/communication with service users, ensure that service user’s feedback indicates the service is responsive to their needs and is a positive experience. Support individuals within the service, to engage in community activities and education.
Team:
To contribute to the safe and effective function of services by undertaking team-based responsibilities and lead roles, and active involvement during times of service development.
Actively participate in team meetings, caseload reviews and reflective practice.
Implement policies and procedures as directed by the trust/ service director, ensuring awareness of these throughout the team.
Please see the Job description attached for more information.
Person specification
Training/qualifications
Essential criteria
- Maths and English GCSE or equivalent
- Driving licence - ability to travel across a wide geographical area
Desirable criteria
- NVQ or equivalent
- Further training in relevant area
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in mental health
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working and liaising with other partnership agencies
- Experience of working with mentally disordered offenders
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of mental health conditions
- knowledge of safeguarding procedures
Desirable criteria
- Medication awareness
- Phlebotomy trained
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
- Tracey Kirk
- Job title
- Senior STR worker, FOLS
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01622 723114
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