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A Vacancy at Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust.


YOU’RE BRILLIANT and we want you on OUR team

It’s time for a new challenge with KMPT in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with tremendous quality of life. Within KMPT we have a network of approximately 150 members of medical staff, not including our range of foundation doctors, GP trainees, core trainees and higher trainees.

There are exciting times ahead with the Kent and Medway Medical School now open, a collaboration between Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Kent with KMPT as one of the NHS partners, inspiring the next generation of medical professionals.

We are also at the forefront of partnership working - an integral part of the Integrated Care System - looking at sustainable health and social care and ensuring the individual is at the centre of everything.

Indulge your passion for research with our internationally known and enthusiastic team, who are involved in a whole host of national and home-grown studies that have the potential to shape future healthcare. You will be very welcome

This is a 10 PA plus on-call post at Dartford Liaison, Darent Valley Hospital, Dartford.

Part-time or job-share applications are welcome.

Please note that all interviews will be conducted via video link using Teams, date to be confirmed.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing vital mental health, learning disability, and specialist services to a population of 1.8 million people across Kent and Medway.

Join our extensive network of medical professionals and contribute to making a positive impact. We offer exceptional professional development opportunities, allowing you to hone your skills while enjoying the high quality of life in the picturesque Garden of England.

Collaborate with the prestigious Kent and Medway Medical School, be at the forefront of integrated care, and prioritise individual well-being. If you're passionate about research, join our internationally recognised team and contribute to shaping the future of healthcare.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providingbrilliant care through brilliant people.



Our Benefits

Here are just some of our Benefits:
• Financial support for relocation of up to £8,000*
• Easy access to inhouse research team and academic opportunity through Kent’s own Medical school
• Generous annual leave and study leave entitlement and access to the fantastic NHS pension scheme
• Holiday of a Lifetime Scheme – Bank your annual leave to save up for that all important extended break
• Flexible working - just ask and we will try to help
• Excellent Learning and Development opportunities - We offer doctors at all grades the chance to engage in leadership, educational, research, quality improvement development and seek growth opportunities tailored to their areas of interest
• Free access to an independent counselling service
• Blue Light Card - A discount service for the NHS, with thousands of amazing discounts
• Car lease scheme
• A variety of staff network forums which empower, support and encourage network members and allies, to reflect KMPT values and promote equality and diversity.

*If you would like further information, or to know the full terms of the Relocation Allowance, then please contact our Medical Staffing Team: kmpt.medical-recruitment@nhs.net

For detailed information regarding the role, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Please call Catharine Blackman on 01622 724133 or email catharine.blackman@nhs.net to make an appointment to speak to Chief Medical Officer-Dr Afifa Qazi or Deputy Chief Medical Officer (Workforce)-Dr Mohan Bhat.


This advert closes on Friday 29 Nov 2024

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We are looking for a motivated, skilled, and experienced Nurse to join our Community Mental Health Services in Bromley East ICMP Team. The post is based at Carlton Parade, Orpington, Kent.

The post holder will be committed to improving the mental and physical well being of mental health service users that are accessing care in our team.

Interviews for this post will be held December 2024 - The interviews will be conducted via a face to face panel interview at the team base.

The post holder will be responsible for a caseload of service users who have complex and substantial mental health needs. They will work as a member of the MDT ensuring that high quality individualised care is delivered and that this promotes recovery and maximise independence.

The post holder will be responsible for undertaking comprehensive assessment of service users and carers mental health and social care needs, in accordance with National CPA Guidance.

The post holder will be working in a supportive diverse team, where there are opportunities for personal development.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re
• We Listen
• We Care

Clinical Skills
• Working autonomously within the parameters of the role leading and supporting junior staff and wider care team to implement the delivery of quality nursing care, contributing to the physical, psychological, social, recreational and spiritual care in a recovery-focused way through therapeutic engagement and activities, and taking steps to address any issues that arise.
• Leading on and undertaking activities to ensure that the fundamentals of care are met - nutrition, hydration, hygiene, comfort, emotional and social support:
• Co-ordinating and evaluating collaborative patient centred care; getting feedback and improving plans with the multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
• Providing accurate information about care in an accessible format to patients and their relatives / carers.
• Liaising and working positively with members of the multi- disciplinary team and partner organisations.
• Administering, and monitoring the side-effects of, medication; monitoring service user compliance.
• Safety: safe custody of medicines, sharps, clinical equipment, report all incidents following trust policy.
• Leading and supporting/teaching junior staff on risk assessment and risk management that involves making decisions based on knowledge of the research evidence, knowledge of the individual service user and their social context, knowledge of the service user’s own experience and clinical judgment.
• Supporting and supervising junior staff to develop the management of care needs through:
• Initial data collection
• Monitoring of individual service user / patient progress
• Feedback and discussion


This advert closes on Wednesday 27 Nov 2024

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This is an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist or CBT therapist to join the Mental Health Rehabilitation Service as we launch Community Rehabilitation in North Kent. We welcome applications from both newly qualified or experienced therapists.

Community Rehabilitation supports people with mental health problems live a full and active life within their family & community, working in partnership with Social Care, Housing and Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector.

As a key member of the multi-disciplinary team , you will be responsible for offering high-quality psychological treatments (individual & group) and family interventions s. Case consultation and joint work with team members will also be an expectation. You will have plenty of scope and support to develop your own practice, whilst providing a highly professional service to people with psychosis and their families.
• To be responsible for the systematic provision of Psychological Therapies or interventions
• To undertake high quality direct and indirect specialist psychology interventions (including CBT/CBTp & family Interventions)
• To work collaboratively as part of the multi-professional team and enhance the therapeutic practice of the team
• At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and about 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.

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 are 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.


Candidates must hold a postgraduate Qualification in Clinical Psychology/CBT, hold HCPC or BABCP registration, and have experience of working withadults with mental health problems.

Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the role or please contact us to discuss further.


This advert closes on Monday 25 Nov 2024

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COMMUNITY CHILD AND ADOLESCENT

CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST

(DARTFORD – KENT)



Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert, at any time, in the event of receiving suitable applicants.



Job Details:



Salary

£105,504 - £139,882 per annum (Pro-rata)

Contract

Substantive

Hours

Full-time: 10 Programmed Activities (DCC:SPA = 7.5:2.5)

On call

Frequency 1:14; Category A - 3% on call supplement

Location

Unit 1, Twisleton Court, Priory Hill, Dartford, Kent, DA1 2EN



Qualifications needed:

· Full GMC registration with a licence to practice

· CCT or equivalent

· Section 12 Approval or eligibility for it

· Approved Clinician status, or eligibility for it

· Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCST

To be successful in your application, you will need:

· To demonstrate that your values are in line with that of NELFT’s values,

· To be innovative, motivated, and passionate about Child and Adolescent mental health care,

· Essential understanding of current developments in mental health care,

· To be a team player



NELFT Benefits:

· Relocation expenses

· Career Development and training

· Just & Compassionate Culture

· Award winning Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion initiatives

· Vivup employee benefits platform and salary sacrifice scheme

· Salary Finance and Financial Wellbeing support

· Employee Assistance Programme

· Health & Wellness initiatives

· 11 Staff Networksincluding parents & carers network, ethnic minorities network, LGBT+ network and Disability network to name a few

· Retail Discounts

· Flexible working and agile working

· Cycle to work scheme

Why NELFT?

NELFT is an award-winning community and mental health Trust, providing healthcare for over 4.9 million people, ensuring our patients, family and friends feel confident that their health needs are met. We are committed to delivering the best care to the communities we serve across North East London, Essex and Kent.



With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled healthcare professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care. Joining us will provide you with unparalleled access to training opportunities, continuous CPD, peer support groups, and a robust supervision and appraisal system.



We are currently recruiting to a CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist position in theDartford CAMHS Community Team, based atUnit 1, Twisleton Court, Priory Hill, Dartford, Kent, DA1 2EN. This post is currently vacant and we wish to recruit to this position as soon as possible.



You will join another full-time CAMHS Consultant (Dr Adenike Ajigini), a full-time Senior Trainee, and 0.8wte CT LASwithin the service, and will have the opportunity to influence future direction, treatment, and models of design in the area in which you work.

You will be expected to:

· Work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to children and young people with mental health needs, across Dartford.

· Provide senior medical support and guidance to the team

· Work directly with young people and their families and liaise as appropriate with other external CAMHS mental health providers and acute hospitals

· Participate in the on-call rota frequency is currently 1:14, with a 3% of basic salary, Category A on-call supplement.

· Support your peers and team leader, and be an effective team member whilst allowing them to work with their own initiative

· Work alongsideanother full-time CAMHS Consultant, a full-time Senior Trainee, and 0.8wte CT LAS

· Commit to collaborative working, actively supporting and liaising with other health and social professionals, and agencies.




This advert closes on Friday 21 Feb 2025

We are looking for someone with exceptional attention to detail, strong analytical skills, technical aptitude / ability to learn systems and able to demonstrate initiative and creative problem solving to join our small staff Learning & Development team. The successful candidate will need to be able to turn their hand to any aspect of our service, make sense of all our complex data and service elements, and help find solutions to niggles as well as better ways of approaching what we do. They will play an active role in providing a responsive service to the Trust. They will be routinely called upon to demonstrate excellent customer care, patience and clear communication, and willingness to do everything that Learning & Development entails, including resetting passwords, routine data entry and answering repetitive queries.

Please do consider applying if you possess these skills and qualities. Learning & Development experience is not essential for this role.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to take part in a practical skills assessment, leading to an interview (dates to be confirmed).

Overview of the Post
• As part of the L&D coordination team, the post holder will support the delivery of a range of learning programmes, policies and processes, and provide support to learners, managers and profession heads across the organisation. Playing an active role in all aspects of the L&D service day-to-day will equip the post holder with the requisite context understanding to effectively deliver their more technical responsibilities.
• They will jointly act as the team data quality officer and take the shared lead on tasks requiring strong analytical skills coupled with understanding of L&D data architecture and service objectives. They will deliver routine and ad hoc reporting and validate quality of data entry across a range of processes, in support of key service objectives.
• They will review team processes and devise improvements to data handling approaches to improve efficiency, support quality, and automate or improve integration of data between systems. They will maintain and/or develop documentation to support consistency of team data handling.
• The post holder will act as the joint lead Learning Management System administrator, contributing to the ongoing management and development of our bespoke LMS, as well as currency of our elearning offering. They will manage our content library version control, set up new offerings in the system, and be responsible for the consistency and currency of all information in the system. This will include content updating.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Key Task and Responsibilities

Systems, procedures and information / data management:
• Designing L&D monitoring / data capture approaches in line with defined objectives and documenting these to ensure consistency of approach between team members / data quality.
• Monitoring quality of L&D data, across various systems, to support accurate and timely trend reporting, action, or requisite outcomes (e.g. pay increment award earned applied on payroll in a timely manner).
• Provision of timely and accurate Trust key performance indicator data (L&D KPIs e.g. PDR, supervision, mandatory learning, local induction) and other activity and / or trend reports to a range of committees and groups (e.g. Trust-wide equality analysis, specific programme uptake / utilisation analysis).
• Contributing to monitoring the Trust’s bespoke learning management system (Oxleas Learning Centre), identification and timely flagging of potential system issues, and technical solution testing (whether related to planned enhancements or reactive bug fixes).
• Reconciling data across systems, identifying any problem data, and working with others (within as well as across functions) to address identified data quality issues.
• Design or contribute to designing various processes associated with learning and development where potential efficiency improvement opportunities are identified (e.g. induction, study leave, therapies trainee placement co-ordination).

Learning programme management:
• In the absence of the Learning & Development Manager, jointly accountable for the ongoing maintenance of the internal participatory learning programme capacity in line with demand. This includes both capacity planning and subsequent monitoring (demand / capacity analysis) to ensure a sufficient volume of learning is in place at all times to meet Trust needs.
• Quality monitoring of core learning provision (assessment of learner feedback) and ensuring that the appropriate action is taken in a timely manner in response to feedback or other concerns raised through delivery (e.g. cascade of concerns raised about Trust risks such as those relating to local equipment, or individual learner competency).
• Setting up new learning offers within the Oxleas Learning Centre, ensuring that learner engagement and completion data will be tracked in line with agreed specific initiative and/or core requirements.
• Maintaining currency of the Trust’s e-learning offering / portfolio, through triggering content review by subject matter experts, agreeing (with manager input) if team resourcing is required (minor content amendments) or signposting requirements for new e-learning development (externally).
• Using authoring software, developing / updating and publishing e-learning packages, setting up associated online knowledge assessments and publishing other resources for learners / staff (working with the relevant subject expert(s) to develop the required subject content).
• Technical testing of amended / new e-learning and where applicable associated assessment quizzes / other course elements prior to release to learners.
• Maintaining the Oxleas e-learning version control log and source file archive, alongside ensuring currency of the participatory learning programme log, so up-to-date information is always referenced by the team.
• Overseeing and maintaining clear, consistent and up to date L&D programme (participatory as well as e-learning), policy and procedural expectation signposting within the Oxleas Learning Centre and development of appropriate marketing material / communication in line with current strategic priorities and/or to help maximise programme capacity.
• Maintaining Learning & Development intranet pages to reflect current policies, processes and contacts in relation to all aspects of the service.

Working as part of the team:
• Undertake the full range of Co-ordinator duties on a rota basis, both to support maintenance of responsive core service / capacity and to ensure thorough understanding of all aspects of the team’s operation.
• Delegated process co-ordination oversight (e.g. ensuring appropriate processing and authorisation of external study funding requests, therapies trainee placement co-ordination, ensuring all pre-requisites are in place ahead of placement start).
• Programme scheduling, ensuring events do not clash and arrangements take account of the diverse needs of the workforce (e.g. accessing venues, variety of days of the week / session timings to support part time workers who may be carers etc.) and adding session details to the Oxleas Learning Centre so staff can book.
• Handling both routine and urgent matters using initiative and with minimal supervision.
• Investigation or analysis, problem-solving and liaising with others as required, to enable issues to be resolved or more complex queries to be addressed in the absence of the team manager.

Other responsibilities:
• Keeping up to date with relevant technical developments and proposing changes to Oxleas L&D systems and/or approaches in line with these.
• Proactively exploring system features to identify potential improvements.

Management responsibilities:
• Deputise for the L&D Manager, ensuring more complex / technical queries are addressed, priorities including providing responsive support to the Trust are appropriately resourced, records are updated in a timely manner and there is consistent oversight of ongoing programme demand / capacity.
• Support accurate financial commitment tracking for the service, including payments reconciliation.
• Support accurate Therapies placement activity tracking and undertake records reconciliation to ensure that the correct placement tariff income is received.
• Take a lead role in ongoing spend monitoring, ensuring this is in line with financial policies and where applicable external funding rules, and reporting on the use of L&D funds, both internally (e.g. on the use of delegated funds to Heads of Profession and Service Directors) and externally (e.g. to funding bodies, in response to Freedom of Information requests) as required.
• Authorised signatory for requisitions and invoices (up to £2,000) as well as any Bank / Agency timesheets.

Leadership:
• Support induction and/or upskilling of team members. As a senior member of the team, provide timely advice and support to colleagues, facilitating efficient daily operation of the service.
• Working as part of the senior L&D team, maintaining an up to date understanding of current policies and priorities, to provide accurate advice, identify potential service improvements or developments, and ensure appropriate staffing deployment (in line with current priorities).
• Reinforcing policy standards and where required managing expectations in relation to demands outside the scope of the L&D function or beyond current capacity (difficult conversations).

Communication:
• Providing (simple) technical systems and/or compatibility advice to a range of subject matter experts and/or groups considering new e-learning development or procurement of e-learning solutions, to inform planning, effective new solution design and subsequent implementation.
• Providing advice to staff / managers / profession heads on all aspects of learning and development in Oxleas.
• Monitoring shared mailboxes and answering telephone calls, assessing incoming correspondence / calls and addressing the full range of queries.
• Efficient and effective liaison with learning suppliers / internal facilitators to ensure shared understanding of responsibilities and effective delivery of programmes.
• Effective liaison with a range of others, to ensure smooth flow of information or support achievement of shared aims.
• Proactively communicating with colleagues on workload issues, annual leave arrangements or administrative issues.
• Providing more complex advice to staff and managers in relation to L&D policies and procedures (e.g. supporting managers to agree appropriate application of Mandatory Training Policy to newly created or altered positions), requiring interpretation coupled with context knowledge.
• Providing sensitive and appropriate feedback, for example where risks are identified though learning delivery (e.g. individual failure to demonstrate required competence), or relating to staff member capability.


This advert closes on Sunday 17 Nov 2024

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A Vacancy at Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust.


If you are an enthusiastic, motivated and self-driven individual who is keen to develop in the world of pharmacy and build a long-standing career then this is the perfect opportunity. We are looking for individuals who strives to deliver high standards and can support our department to meet Trust values.

As a Pre-Registration Pharmacy Technician you will spend two years building a portfolio of skills and knowledge, and demonstrate behaviours that follow GPhC and Trust standards.

Those two years will be filled with many opportunities to grow and develop within our KMPT Mental Health Trust pharmacy team. This will include one day a week working in a busy hospital dispensary, as well as focusing on medicine management, patient safety and the supply of medication.

You will be expected to work two days a week with KMPT, two days with Darent valley acute Trust and one day at College.

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.
• Develop knowledge around fundamentals of the mental health act
• Dispensary duties
• Distribution and stores
• Medicine optimisation
• Audits
• Attend forensic units, with the supervision of a senior technician or pharmacist.
• Shadow a pharmacist
• Participate in quality improvement projects.
• Participate in departmental education and training schemes to maintain personal development
• To attend in-house meetings.


This advert closes on Monday 18 Nov 2024

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Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust endorses the Think Family approach to safeguarding through placing emphasis on the integration of adult and children workers to address the needs of all family members, upholding family values by working ‘with’ our children, young people and families and professional networks.

We have an exciting opportunity for a job share - Safeguarding Adults Lead and Prevent, and we are welcoming applications from suitably qualified staff who are passionate and motivated to make a difference to our most vulnerable adults and families.

The post holder will provide leadership for Oxleas safeguarding adult and Prevent policies and procedures including assurance that the trust is compliant with all statutory requirements under legislation.

The post holder will have a key responsibility for the coordination, management, implementation and monitoring of the trust’s strategy for safeguarding adults.

The post holder will monitor safeguarding adult activity, developing robust consistent safeguarding practice in line with best practice and statutory requirements.

The post holder will provide expert advice, supervision and support on safeguarding adult matters, working together with liaising with key professionals and partner agencies.

The post holder will actively contribute towards the quality and assurance agenda including training, audit, collection and analysis of relevant data.

The post holder will contribute to Safeguarding children practice reviews, Domestic homicide reviews, Safeguarding Adult reviews, Learning reviews and Serious incident investigations.

The post holder will work in close partnership with external stakeholders towards ensuring effective safeguarding arrangements.

The post holder will lead and have line management responsibility for Specialist safeguarding nurses/ practitioners.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.



We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.



Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:


• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
















We will only deliver outstanding care to our patients if we take the best possible care of our staff. We want our people to be given opportunities to develop and thrive and to feel supported to give their best every day. We want every person in Oxleas to be treated kindly, fairly and with care.
• To provide clinical leadership and expert advice and support on safeguarding children to all Oxleas staff
• To ensure that staff are fully aware of their statutory responsibilities to safeguard children, young people and adults at risk
• To ensure the delivery of the safeguarding children service locally and assist the Head of safeguarding to ensure provision across the trust
• To contribute to Safeguarding children practice reviews, Domestic homicide reviews, Safeguarding adult reviews and other types of reviews including investigating and writing the Individual Management Reviews for the Trust
• To provide safeguarding children specialist advice and support to the investigation of serious incidents, internal case reviews and any complaints
• To ensure that all local recommendations are fed into service action plans and that learning is embedded in practice
• To provide advice and support to staff where there are professional differences of opinion in multi-agency decision making about children and families and to support with escalation process
• To recognise and support managers in identifying any competency issues practitioners have in relation to safeguarding work
• To develop and promote collaborative interagency working on all issues relating to safeguarding children and young people and overall safeguarding practice
• To work in close liaison with senior colleagues in partner agencies including Designated safeguarding professionals, Named doctors and Safeguarding champions
• To identify opportunities for service development and develop business plans


This advert closes on Tuesday 12 Nov 2024

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Work closely with Clinical Teams to analyse variances in data and develop improvement plans Review Clinical documentation and provide expert Clinical Coding support to clinical teams in documentation improvement projects Lead in validating patient activity across all specialities and feedback to both clinical staff and the Clinical Coding team leading to an improvement of HRG and Tariff generation Encourage clinician validation of coded data, to instil confidence and assurance of coded-data within the clinical teams Develop a programme of engagement with Clinical Teams as an opportunity for clinicians to meet coders to discuss and resolve problems Develop and maintain effective working relationships with consultants and their clinical teams to ensure quality and depth of clinical coding is achieved Promote the Clinical Coding Department and best practice in clinical recording and coding across the Trust. Attend appropriate directorate/ operational meetings to update on performance and the quality of clinical coding. Attend regular meetings with Lead Clinicians and Divisional Managers in order to discuss variations of coded data and identify opportunities to improve source documentation underpinning the coding process. Instigate the analysis and investigations of areas where clinical and operational managers highlight specific issues and problems with the way data is documented/coded Analyse the results and findings from benchmarking exercises, and share with clinical/operational teams to agree corrective action Use benchmarking tools to identify variances in consultant/speciality/trust-level data recording Produce analysis and results reports to be shared with appropriate coding clinical and operational groups within the Trust

We are looking for a highly motivated Medical Education Fellow to join our dynamic medical education team.

The role will allow the opportunity to develop teaching skills, extend knowledge of educational theory and undertake educational research. It will suit an individual who has an interest in medical education and educational research and there may be an opportunity to participate in one day of clinical work a week and to join the OOH rota following discussion with the Director of Medical Education.

The level will be ST4+ or equivalent. The Medical Education Fellow, as well as being responsible to the DME will also be supported by a dedicated team of medical education officers.

This is a very exciting time and an excellent opportunity for a doctor who is looking to develop their teaching skills in a supportive environment.

You will have access study leave and a budget which will allow you to attend courses related to your post.
The postholder will be an integral member of the educational faculty at Oxleas and will have the opportunity to observe and contribute to all aspects of the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes (including teaching medical students in various locations across the Trust) and gaining an understanding of the structure and governance within medical education.
You will assist the Director of Medical Education in the planning and delivery of medical student inductions, faculty development programmes, and other undergraduate and postgraduate educational activities. You will also support the DME with the Trainees interested in Medical Education (TiMEd) Scheme of the Trust and faculty facing courses such as the intensive clinical supervisors’ course and the ‘Teaching for Doctors’ workshop.
Additionally, the postholder will be expected to plan and deliver regular teaching sessions to various medical learner groups within Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.
Furthermore, the postholder will be expected to deliver weekly tutorials to our Year 4 Medical Students as well as act as educational supervisor for up to four of these students.
At Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, we offer a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South-East London and to people in prison across England. Our wide array of services includes community health care, such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies.

Oxleas is a great place to work. It has been recognised as one of the Top 10 Best Places to Work 2023 by the Sunday Times amongst very big employers. Our staff survey results show that we are in the Top 5 in England and the highest in London for staff experience amongst similar trusts.

“We are always delighted to welcome new colleagues to the Oxleas family. We care about making Oxleas a great place to work - it’s a big priority in our strategy. Come and join us - it’s a place where our values, teamwork, equity, and wellbeing matter and where you can really help to improve people’s lives.”

Ify Okocha - Chief Executive
• To support the Director of Medical Education and the Trust Undergraduate Lead
• To work with the Medical Education Team (Undergraduate and Postgraduate)
• To develop, document and support structures for the delivery of high quality educational programmes
• To evaluate and improve educational programmes
• To be a Educational Supervisor for year four medical students
• To facilitate medical student reflective practice groups
• To be a year 4 medical student tutor
• To conduct and disseminate original educational research

The postholder will have the opportunity to take part in a range of educational research activities, centred on the training of undergraduate medical students but may include other groups of medical learners. These options are aligned with existing research activity and include (but are not confined to) the evaluation of existing teaching programmes within the department. The postholder will be supported to generate publishable outputs, including conference presentations and publications in peer reviewed medical and educational journals.
• To contribute to the completion of existing educational projects through description, data analysis or dissemination
• To support and develop internal collaborations in education.
• To support the the Director of Medical Education and the Trust Undergraduate Lead with external, collaborations, and deputising at local and national meetings
• To understand and support curriculum design and development

Examples include the undergraduate GKT School of Medical Education psychiatry curriculum.
• To develop a range of educational materials: website content, interactive platforms,webinars, medical education Apps, e-learning modules, written materials or handbooks

Examples might include continued review and development of the undergraduate psychiatry e-learning
• To produce high-standard materials for written examinations and OSCE stations
• To take part on medical school examinations and admissions assessments
• To develop schemes and materials to inform school students about careers in psychiatry


This advert closes on Monday 11 Nov 2024

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The Hearing Impaired Specialist Resource Provision (SRP) at the Sir Geoffrey Leigh Academy includes a dedicated SRP for Hearing Impaired (HI) students with severe to profound hearing loss. The HI students are placed in tutor groups alongside their hearing peers. They are taught by the academy’s subject teachers, working in the mainstream classes for the majority of the time. The Hearing Impaired Specialist Resource Provision staff provide support, working alongside teaching staff and the SENDCo to ensure that the needs of the hearing impaired students are taken into account. Some of the students use BSL to support their spoken language so signed communication support is provided and we also use the Total Communication Approach. The academy strives to promote deaf awareness within the academy community as a whole and deaf awareness is included in the pastoral programme for all students. Although the Hearing Impaired students work primarily in their main classes for the majority of the time, interventions also take place in the Hearing Impaired SRP. The SRP base within the Inclusion Hub is used for specialist teaching, audiology and Speech and Language Therapy.

The successful candidate will be able to offer hearing impaired support in all aspects of academy life, whilst encouraging students you work closely with to become an independent learner. They will also facilitate personal, social and intellectual development of those with hearing loss. This role would suit an experienced HLTA of hearing Impaired students with relevant hearing impairment qualifications. The successful candidate will join an established hearing team, offering specialist resource provision to those with hearing impairment within a large SEND department. We would welcome applications from those who are qualified hearing impairment specialists and hold British Sign Language level two or above.

This is a fixed-term position until the end of the academic year, working 37 hours per week, term time + 1 week of inset and offers an actual salary of £24,339 - £26,830 per annum (£28,297 - £31,194 full-time equivalent) based on experience.

1.1 Answer phone calls and face to face queries from hospital staff. 1.2 Reply to emails regarding getting Health Records sent out or scanned on to the system, which may often be urgently required. 1.3 Prepare Health Records for scanning, identifying documents which are unsuitable for scanning 1.4 Dispose of leftover material from Health Records (spines, folders, plastics and cardboards) in relevant confidential waste/recycling bins. 1.5 Use scanning software to create traceable batches to scan documents into. 1.6 Perform scheduled cleaning and upkeep on the scanners 1.7 Track ownership of activities performed during the prepping and scanning processes for each batch of Health Records. 1.8 Using the Patient Administration SysTem (PAS), find, distribute and track Health Records required for Emergency and booked patient admissions 1.9 Communicate with Reception, Clinic and Ward staff; to keep updated about requests for Health Records 1.10 Pull Health Records from file for clinics and run clinic reports 1.11 Ensure the tracking is correct on the Health Records once received back to the department. 1.12 Destroy hard copies of scanned records in accordance with SOPs and required retention periods 1.13 Deal with the day to day management of the Health Records being received in to Health Records department 1.14 Escalate issues surrounding equipment malfunction to the appropriate supervisor/manager. 1.15 Responsible for monitoring the scheduled deliveries of Health Records from clinical locations to Health records. 1.16 Assist in extensive searches of internal locations, and library searches for misfiles following set procedures to locate missing notes, 1.17 Perform QA checks at different points of the digitisation process to ensure quality remains consistently high.

There is an exciting opportunity for Registered Mental Health Nurses to join the Forensic Inpatient Directorate at The Bracton Centre and Memorial Hospital - Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.

We are a Trauma Informed Service, looking for dynamic and compassionate individuals. We are seeking to recruit nurses who are curious about the ways that adversity and traumas impact our patients’ behaviours, functioning, clinical presentations and engagement. You will be supported to deliver high quality nursing to patients, in which your nursing therapeutic and relational skills will help our patients to feel safe, listened to, valued, engaged and empowered.

You will be supported to be a trauma responsive nurse, developing practices that avoid causing further harm, promote engagement and create a safe context for healing and recovery.

You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, where good communication supports the management of clinical and risk issues on the ward. You will ensure appropriate evidence-based practices are used, including Trauma Informed Care, a traffic light system for the prediction of violence and aggression and safety huddles.

The Forensic Directorate supports occasional rotation of staff to other wards to enable them acquire new skills, avoid burnouts and gain the full benefit and experience working in the forensic directorate. The post holder may hence be rotated to another ward as part of further development and to meet service needs.


• Working autonomously within the parameters of the role, implementing the delivery of quality nursing care, contributing to the physical, psychological, social, recreational, and spiritual care in a recovery focused and trauma-informed way, through therapeutic engagement and activities, and taking steps to address any issues that arise.
• Leading on and undertaking activities to ensure that the fundamentals of care are met, such as physical and psychological safety, emotional and social support, nutrition, hydration, hygiene, and comfort.
• Co-ordinating and evaluating collaborative patient-centred care, offering choices and opportunities to empower patients whenever possible.
• Getting feedback and improving plans with the multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
• Providing accurate information about care in an accessible format to patients and their relatives / carers, and regularly engaging with carers and families within the remits of confidentiality.
• Promoting service user engagement, supporting emotional regulation, and creating a safe context for healing and recovery.
• Liaising and working positively with members of the multidisciplinary team and partner organisations.
• Developing the management of care needs through:

a) Initial data collection

b) Monitoring of individual service user / patient progress

c) Feedback and discussion.

d) Producing reports and in-care reviews.

e) Devising a plan of care and interventions under supervision.







Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care



You will be supported to be a trauma responsive nurse, developing practices that avoid causing further harm, promote engagement and create a safe context for healing and recovery.

You will have access to multiple sources of support, including supervision, preceptorship, MDT working, training and staff support sessions. These will enable you to use communication and connection to patients to create safety, support emotional regulation, reframe frustrating behaviours and reflect on your own practice.

You will be part of a service focussed on re-emphasising relational security within the physically secure setting, such as providing patient choice when possible, collaboration and transparency/

Please refer to attached Job description and Person specification.


This advert closes on Wednesday 23 Oct 2024

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We are seeking a dynamic, creative, and enthusiastic Occupational therapist to join our leadership team at DGSCMHT.

You will provide clinical leadership on our care pathways within Mental health together + pathways

This will be achieved by providing supervision andspecialist mental health advice and education to staff within the team. and offer clinical sessions offering short-term interventions based on psychological informed evidence based therapies and offer professional advice to client/patients and their carers, other professionals/ partners.

Being a key member of the leadership team you will support clinicians to provide timely and evidence based interventions.

Providing expertise in occupational therapy assessments/interventions and provide OT specialist support to the team (OT's and trainee OT's)

Developing working relationships with partner agencies and teams to ensure seamless progress of patients through the care pathways.

Supporting the leadership team in reviewing care across the services

Please see JD for more details

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 are 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.

Please see Job description and personal specification for full details of duties and responsibilities


This advert closes on Sunday 20 Oct 2024

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We are seeking an organisedStaff Partnership Officerwith strong communication skills to empower staff at all levels. In this role, you will gather feedback on what is working well and identify areas for improvement, ensuring that all input is communicated anonymously to senior management.

This is a unique and varied position that requires excellent verbal and written communication, as well as strong organisational abilities. If you thrive in a role that bridges staff and leadership, ensuring voices are heard and improvements are made, we encourage you to apply.











The Staff Partnership Team has a key role in;
• fostering good internal communications with staff and managers across the Trust,
• developing and implementing two-way communications across the organisation,
• promoting a culture that encourages staff involvement in decision making, where all staff feel able to contribute and are confident that their views will be listened to and valued,
• encouraging open sharing of information, gaining insight from diverse perspectives, with an acceptance of mutual accountability for identifying and resolving difficulties.



The Staff Partnership Officer will support the Head of Staff Partnership in securing the delivery of the Trust’s Partnership Agreement and its key objectives, set out by the Trust Board.





Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

The postholder will be expected to establish and maintain positive interpersonal relationships with other staff members characterised by trust, mutual respect, open and honest communication.

The Staff Partnership Officer will be a key member of the Staff Partnership Team, with responsibility to support and deputise for the Head of Staff Partnership role.

The postholder will play a supporting role in ensuring the principles and practices, detailed in the Trust’s People Strategy, Partnership Agreement and Staff Partnership plan, are incorporated into the ways of working in all parts of the organisation.

The postholder will play an active role in managing organisational change, ensuring all staff affected are empowered to contribute to the process, upholding the principles of staff engagement and partnership working.

The postholder will work closely with Senior Managers and Directors on a regular basis to remain informed about their service areas and plans that will affect their staff members.

The postholder will offer support and engage with staff on matters affecting them, such as changes to working conditions and changes to terms and conditions.

The postholder will establish credibility as an expert in engagement with staff at all levels.

The postholder will support the Head of Staff Partnership’s role as Staffside Lead for the Agenda for Change Job Evaluation process as well as being actively involved in this workstream.

The post holder is required to analyse and respond to draft consultation papers in the absence of the Head of Staff Partnership and carry out these tasks on specific consultations designated to them. This may include non-clinical risk assessments, management papers and briefings, as required.

Management responsibilities

Line manage the Agenda for Change Administrator ensuring supervision, PDRs and all mandatory training are up to date.

Participate in the recruitment process, induction, training, and mentoring of staff within and joining the Staff Partnership Team.

Project Management

Support the identification, planning, delivery and evaluation of Staff Partnership activity across the Trust working with appropriate Directors/Senior Managers and staff to achieve the required outcomes. This will include being able to contribute to and develop guidelines, policies and protocols across the Trust.

Attend directorate/service meetings, actively contributing the staff partnership perspective to the business agenda eg at Directorate Management Meetings, People Committee, Senior Staff Events.

Contribute to the planning of the Staff Partnership Team’s activity regarding staff feedback, holding regular focus groups and sessions across all Directorates. Ensure clear action plans are developed and agreed with local management teams.

In partnership with the Head of Staff Partnership, organise, implement and evaluate these feedback sessions to share with the Executive team.

Contribute to the change management processes, as per Oxleas’ policy, providing Staff Partnership representation in the preparation, delivery and evaluation of consultations, to oversee and ensure staff are empowered to fully engage with the process.

Work with Senior Managers/Directors towards resolving highly complex employee relations cases, for example facilitating informal resolution in staff disputes or providing support to staff at formal investigations/hearings.

Contribute to the Trust’s policy review process with Head of Employee Relations & Business Partnering and lead on specific delegated policy reviews.

Work with Heads of HR and the People management team to collate and facilitate training programmes for managers and staff side reps.

Invite, consult or liaise with staff side colleagues to, where appropriate, jointly work with the Staff Partnership team to ensure a representative broad information base is obtained.

Jointly develop the role of the Staff Partnership Team to provide a function fit for purpose in the ever-changing Health economy.

Support the Head of Staff Partnership in working with the Chief People Officer and Heads of HR on tender processes.
Leadership
The postholder will be required to assist with the training/mentoring/coaching of staff with regards to change management, staff engagement and Agenda for Change.

Facilitate effective focus groups for all staff groups.
Research
The postholder will be expected to carry out audits and to research information for accuracy and to cascade this to management and/or staff as appropriate.

Communication

The postholder must be able to demonstrate excellent communication, presentation and engagement skills to be able to communicate with all staff constituting the Oxleas’ workforce to facilitate constructive and productive working relationships.

Produce reports from focus groups and present to Senior Managers/Directors in a timely fashion at pre-planned monthly or bi-monthly meetings. Escalate any matters of urgency using appropriate communication. Monitor, review and evaluate action plans arising from focus group feedback.

Jointly, with the Head of Staff Partnership, produce the half-yearly Staff Partnership Board Report. Support the Head of Staff Partnership to present the Board Report to the Trust Executive, People Committee and other appropriate senior management meetings, deputising for the Head of Staff Partnership as required.

Impart highly distressing/unwelcome news to either individuals or groups of staff where the situation can be highly contentious eg organisational change process or when staff are receiving information that is not easily understood.

Ensure communication is appropriate for target audience.

Use motivational skills to encourage staff engagement to improve services / performance where there might be resistance to change.

Planning and Organisational Skills

The postholder will be expected to plan and organise staff engagement activities across the Trust, making adjustments to suit staff working in a variety of locations and in a variety of rotas across South East London, Kent and the South West. These plans will be both long term, ie yearly, and will have several short-term plans on-going at any one time.

Prioritise workload while dealing with constant interruptions from both internal and external sources.

Demonstrate project management (planning and delivery) skills and competencies.




This advert closes on Tuesday 24 Sep 2024

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It’s an exciting time to join us. KMPT has been rated Outstanding for Caring and Good overall in our most recent CQC inspection. KMPT is creating an environment for equal opportunities for all.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed assistant psychologist to perform at a band 4, and join our well established and dynamic service in adult mental health for people who live in Dartford, Gravesend and Swanley (DGS).

The post holder will be based at Arndale House, within the DGS Psychological Therapies service which includes psychological clinicians of several disciplines. The DGS Psychological Therapies service works closely and in collaboration with the DGS Community Mental Health team as integrated services to provide a comprehensive service to adults with complex and longstanding mental health conditions and emotional difficulties.

To participate in the provision of direct clinical work through the delivery of manualized psychologically informed structured interventions as part of Psychological Services to adults with mental health difficulties within the community & recovery service line of Kent & Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust.

In particular:
• To deliver ‘initial interventions’ to people accessing adult mental health services as part of the Clinical Care Pathways in the CMHT. Specific and targeted training will be provided by experienced Psychological Practitioners and all interventions supported by weekly clinical supervision from Psychological Practitioners.
• To undertake other structured therapeutic psychological interventions in an identified service or services using own independent initiative within guidelines provided by a qualified psychologist.
• To undertake clinical and service performance related administration, audit and research projects, teaching and service improvement project work under the professional guidance of a qualified psychologist. This includes overseeing the clinical outcomes project for psychological therapies across the North Kent directorate.

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 are 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.

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 £1,192 per year and a maximum payment of £2,011 per year (the agreed annual amount will be divided into 12 equal amounts and paid monthly)

CLINICAL


• To undertake training in the delivery of the CBT informed intervention known as ‘Initial Interventions’ delivered by a group of specialist psychological practitioners.
• To deliver the CBT informed interventions to a range of adults accessing Secondary Care Mental Health Services under the direct responsibility and clinical supervision of experienced Psychological Practitioners.
• To undertake a range of other skills-based or protocol-driven psychological therapeutic interventions, in addition to Initial Interventions, depending upon the needs of the service.
• To receive and participate in weekly clinical supervision around all clinical work.
• To provide psychological guidance and support to carers and families of service users under clinical supervision of a qualified psychologist.
• To use initiative and act independently within guidelines, knowing when to refer to qualified psychologist for clinical decisions and guidance.


This advert closes on Thursday 3 Oct 2024

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