About this role
Job summary
We are looking for 1 Operational Manager to join our Mental Health Support Team patch areas team covering the East Kent area. (including Thanet, Canterbury and Dover)
This role requires an experienced and professionally registered mental health professional with expertise in operational management and clinical knowledge of working in the field of Children and Young Peoples Mental Health.
The role also involves working closely with schools to promote early intervention, prevention, and whole-school approaches to emotional wellbeing and mental health. The successful candidate will contribute to service improvement, clinical governance, audit, and multi-agency partnership working, while providing consultation, training, and support to education staff. Strong leadership, supervision, and service development skills are essential, alongside experience using routine outcome measures and adapting interventions to meet the diverse needs of children and young people, including those with additional needs.
Please see our website for overview of the service.
Kent Emotional Wellbeing Teams and Medway Emotional Support Teams - Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
Main duties of the job
The postholder will provide Operational Management, budget oversight, governance, and service development within Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs), ensuring the delivery of the MHST programme in their locality including oversight of workforce, key performance indicators and management oversight of service user experience.
This roles are integral to the day to day Operational management of the locality patch area within the service, the post holder will oversee the service delivery according to trust policy and service model ensuring Key Performance indicators are met and patient safety is kept at the heart of our offer . The post holder will work closely with the Locality Senior Clinician to ensure delivery is meeting the needs of the schools in the area.
Please see the attached Job description for detail and speak with us about how the service operates within Kent and Medway.
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.
About us
We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated 'Good' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Our teams support children, youngpeopleand adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.
Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.
Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mentalillness, butlive well.It'swhywe'repassionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive,curiousand confident.
Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a teamthat'sworking well together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and contact us for discussions about these exciting roles. While the MHST programme is a national programme of work our local service is innovative and co-created and therefore job roles may differ please see Job Description, our website and give us a call or email.
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).
Person Specification
Essential qualification
Essential
- Appropriate professional qualification to be Operational Manager
- 3 years plus experience at Band 7 or equivalent.
Desirable
- Management training
- Clear understanding of MHST programme
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in Mental Health
- High level knowledge of Mental Health Services including use of legislation.
Desirable
- Experience of complex project management.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
Address
East Kent (See Advert Details)
Georges Turle House
See advert (MHST central office is in Maidstone Studios)
CT2 8JY
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.kentmedwaymentalhealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)