Job summary
- Main area
- Admin
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (3 days a week)
- Job ref
- 380-FR0632
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Liaison, Diversion and Reconnect
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £24,937 - £26,598 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/02/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Administrator
Band 3
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.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
The Liaison, Diversion and Reconnect (LDR) Service is a countywide assessment service, serving Kent and Medway’s police custody suites, magistrates, crown courts and the wider community.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the team as a Band 3 Administrator.
This is key role within the service, providing a flexible and comprehensive admin provision to enable us to deliver the best possible service user experience we can.
You will join an established team of admin and clinical staff, in a friendly and welcoming environment.
This role is based at the office in Maidstone and is for 3 days a week, one of which will be a Tuesday.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate should have excellent communication skills, be a professional representative for the service and be a conscientious, adaptable administrator.
LDR is an all age, all-vulnerability service, providing liaison and diversion both inside and outside of the criminal justice system. We screen and assess individuals over the age of 10, suspected of committing a crime, to identify health and social care vulnerabilities. The aim of the service is to improve the service user experience by connecting them with the right service at the right time.
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
We are a multidisciplinary team consisting of mental health nurses, social workers, liaison and diversion workers, apprentices, lived experience practitioners and a consultant psychiatrist.
We work closely with the police, courts, youth offending teams, probation, community mental health teams, community mental health teams, social care providers and many more health and social care partners.
We will offer full support in the form of supervision, appraisal and personal development plans, as well as a real investment in your training and development.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the team as a Band 3 Administrator. This is key role within the service, providing a flexible and comprehensive admin provision to enable us to deliver the best possible service user experience we can.
Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification
Person specification
Skills and experience
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills
- Updating for reports and be able to display simple charts
- IT skills
- Customer service experience
Desirable criteria
- supervising others
- working independently
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- General Office procedures
Training, Qualifications and Registration
Essential criteria
- Educated to NVQ level 3 /RSA 3 or equivalent experience
- GCSE in Maths and English or equivalent
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Caroline Higgins
- Job title
- Business Administration Co-ordinator
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 08001975542
List jobs with Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust in Administrative Services or all sectors