Job summary
- Main area
- Community Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- 9 months (Fixed term/Secondment)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-EK319
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Grove
- Town
- Ramsgate
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Manager
Band 6
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
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the East Kent Community Rehabilitation Service at The Grove. The team require Deputy Unit Manager and the successful candidate should be an enthusiastic and motivated registered mental health nurse with sound knowledge and skills to take on this challenging but rewarding role.
The Grove is situated in the centre of Ramsgate and is one of 6 Rehabilitation Units across Kent, which provides specialist inpatient rehabilitation for individuals with complex mental health and psychological needs. The unit comprises of 8 single bedrooms and is staffed 24 hour a day, 7 days a week.
The multidisciplinary team provides a wide range of individualized interventions delivered by nursing, medical, psychological, occupational therapy and peer support clinicians. You will also have excellent interpersonal skills to manage and supervise staff effectively. You will be working with a wide range of experienced and friendly professionals providing high quality care with compassion.
Main duties of the job
We believe in clinically led, management supported services and want to strengthen nurse leadership to provide safe, compassionate, creative services which really make a difference to patient lives.
- You will therefore be an excellent clinician, committed to the concept of person centred care and recovery.
- You will have the ability to influence, enthuse and enable, a role model who leads from the front and by example you will use your clinical expertise to improve practice, to challenge tradition and to work with the team to create a culture of therapeutic optimism and hope.
- The candidate will be resilient, tenacious and ready for a challenge, who will support and develop staff to provide the kind of service you would want to recommend to family, carers and friends.
- We will offer development opportunities, supervision, reflective practice, mentoring and coaching and will ensure you are fully supported in your new role.
- A working knowledge of serious and enduring mental health conditions, such as complex psychosis is essential.
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 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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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- The Deputy Manager will provide day to day support to the Unit Manager, to carry out appropriate delegated tasks.
- To act up in the Unit Manager’s absence.
- The Deputy Manager will be responsible for coordinating the comprehensive assessment of service users.
- Screening referrals and completing assessments.
- Medication Competencies.
- Work collaboratively with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure effective delivery of the Rehabilitation Therapeutic Intervention programme.
- The successful candidate will also act as a Clinical Lead supporting best practice in line with NMC, NICE guidance and Trust Policy.
- Facilitate and review approved Quality Improvement initiatives within the care setting.
- Lead on Quality Clinical documentation; CliQ checks.
- There is a strong commitment to supervision, training and regular appraisal, which you will receive and deliver to the Band 5 Nurses.
- Risk management, to include InPhase and Risk Register
- E-Roster
- Facilitation of meetings; client reviews, staff meetings, training.
- Coaching, role modelling and mentoring staff and students
If you are motivated, committed and enthusiastic about improving the lives of people with complex mental heath needs, have a progressive approach leadership and are looking for variety and a challenge in your day to day work we would be interested in hearing from you.
Please see job description for full details.
Person specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential criteria
- Registered with the NMC
- Qualified practice assessor
- Completed preceptorship
- Completed Edward Jenner Programme
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Significant knowledge of and ability to apply relevant legislative frameworks and policies relating to care e.g. Mental Capacity Act
- A comprehensive understanding and ability to apply principles of risk assessment and risk management
- To be competent in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care
- Effective organisational /planning and decision making skills
- Understanding of current quality improvement initiatives
- Significant awareness of clinical governance and its relationship to clinical effectiveness and patient safety and patient experience
- Enhanced leadership skills e.g. taking charge, delegation of duties, supervising others.
- Good knowledge and practice of IT skills.
- Knowledge and understanding of the NMC Code of Conduct
Desirable criteria
- Ability to support and develop an environment which ensures effective clinical care and innovation.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 3 years experience as a Band 5
- Evidence of post qulifying continued learning
- Previous supervision experience
Desirable criteria
- Previous NHS experience
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
- Jess Kidd-Scott
- Job title
- Unit Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01843 581459
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