Job summary
- Main area
- Mental health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-NK245
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Britton House
- Town
- Gillingham
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/01/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Clinician
NHS AfC: Band 7
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce. 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
Please note, at this stage, the role is open only to internal staff (including NHSP and Agency staff currently on placement within our organisation) and staff substantively employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). Any individual who is at risk of redundancy will be given priority, provided they meet the essential criteria.
Are you passionate about making a real difference in mental health care? Join our dynamic Early Intervention in Psychosis Service (EIPS) and help transform lives by delivering exceptional, evidence-based care to those who need it most.
What You’ll Do
- Be a clinical leader, guiding and mentoring staff while managing a complex caseload.
- Deliver specialist mental health interventions, supporting service users with both short-term and enduring conditions.
- Drive innovation and quality, shaping care pathways and implementing audits to keep standards high.
- Act as a key link across mental health services, primary care, and partner agencies to ensure seamless, person-centred care.
- Inspire and support the next generation of practitioners through mentoring and education.
What We’re Looking For
- A qualified mental health professional (NMC, HCPC or equivalent) with experience in community mental health.
- Strong leadership skills and a passion for collaborative working.
- Expertise in evidence-based interventions and care planning for complex cases.
- Commitment to continuous professional development and service improvement.
Why Join Us?
- Be part of a forward-thinking team that values innovation and holistic care.
- Opportunities for career progression and specialist training.
- Make a tangible impact on service users’ lives and shape the future of mental health care.
Main duties of the job
- Act as a core member of the Early Intervention in Psychosis Service (EIPS), ensuring delivery of high-quality care and achievement of KPI
- Attend multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings and service user reviews to support effective care planning.
- Provide clinical leadership and guidance to junior staff, particularly in managing complex cases.
- Contribute to the development and review of service user pathways. Implement and maintain clinical audit and evaluation systems to monitor team performance.
- Manage a defined complex caseload, conducting assessments, care planning, and evaluation using specialist mental health expertise.
- Work within a shared caseload framework, organising reviews, discharge planning, and liaising with carers and professionals
Working for our organisation
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.
Our vision is simple: We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's doing well together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Act as a specialist adviser to nursing staff, occupational therapists, GPs, and primary care colleagues.
- Participate in senior team meetings, tribunals, and prepare reports for multidisciplinary forums.
- Mentor staff and support learning opportunities for those seeking experience within the team.
- Refer carers for assessment in line with the Care Act.
- Deliver care for service users with short-term and long-term conditions, including those with severe and enduring mental health needs under the Mental Health Act.
- Facilitate transitions between EIPS and other services, ensuring continuity of care and appropriate discharg
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).
Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification
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.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience with EIPS
- Community mental health team experience
- 5 years post qualifying experience at Band 6 or above
Desirable criteria
- Worked with At Risk mental states
- Leadership/Management experience
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Practice assessor
- Registered Nurse or Occupational therapist
Desirable criteria
- Diploma in working with psychosis or higher
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Stuart Harling
- Job title
- Service manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03003033189
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