Rosebud is a stand-alone unit near West Malling in Kent. We are looking for a skilled leader who can inspire and drive excellent patient care.
The team manager will have responsibility and accountability, for the safe and effective delivery of clinical care, offering the highest quality service possible, within the available resources to the designated client group.
To monitor and audit the effectiveness of care delivery within the service.
To co-ordinate student placements within the service, working closely with academic colleagues, the Trust placements, and practice placements co-ordinators, and to input to student induction programmes.
To provide management supervision to the Occupational Therapist and Nursing staff.
To co-ordinate a programme of in-house training opportunities for unqualified staff.
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• To ensure continued improvement in service delivery, and introduce a system of clinical audit within the service.
• To co-ordinate the training, support and supervision of junior staff and manage a safe, effective, and fair rota.
• To co-ordinate student placements within the service, and to evaluate the effectiveness of the placement experience, for students, regularly.
• To act as a link person for the service, as required, and to feedback on relevant practice issues to the team.
• To participate in an agreed system of Performance Review.
• To ensure that the service meets the requirements of Trust Policies and Procedures, including C.P.A., and that nursing practice reflects the N.M.C. Professional Code of Conduct.
• To develop and maintain close working relationships with local professional education providers, ensuring that audit action plans are carried out.
• To facilitate greater user and carer involvement, with the service, and with service development.
• Ensure risk assessments and Incidents are updated, investigated, and reviewed, completing Action Plans.
• Respond and act upon any complaints/ concerns raised.
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.
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Please refer to the attached job description for full details and the main responsibilities of the role.
This advert closes on Wednesday 7 Aug 2024
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