Support Time Recovery Worker | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
| Posting date: | 09 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,071 - £25,674 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 February 2025 |
| Location: | Coxheath, Maidstone, ME17 4TX |
| Company: | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6710540/380-WK0231 |
Summary
An exciting new opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, motivated individual to join the Review and Resettlement Team.
The Review and Resettlement Team works with patients placed in out-of-area speciality placement. They also work with people who are Autistic people to support them in accessing mental health services and prevent inappropriate admission to in patients' hospital
This role allows you to maintain a good work-life balance. It includes your choice of work base at any of our KMPT locations across Kent—Dartford, Maidstone, or Canterbury—with the opportunity to work from home partly.
You will have good experience in supporting patients with complex mental health and those who are Autistic. You will work closely with other services to support Patients settling back in the community when repatriated to Kent.
The Role will be required to travel across the country and the county.
You have good knowledge of local services that will support the patients with integrating back into the community.
You must possess excellent communication skills, demonstrate a flexible approach to your work, be self-motivated, innovative, professional, and a team player.
• The post holder will support the complex Care Coordinator with complex caseloads of patients with complex mental health illnesses and who are Autistic.
• The roles will support the discharge planning process for patients and provide support to the Area funded by the Mental OATS panel.
• The post holder will work as a Review and Resettlement Team member and be actively involved in the discharge planning process of all patients to improve the patient journey and minimise patient delays.
• The post holder will work under the supervision of the complex care coordinator to collaborate with other professionals toreduce inappropriate admission for Autistic people.
• The post holder will be responsible for supporting the Complex care Coordinator with complex discharges, supporting the patients to settle in their new environment for a minimum period of 3 months and facilitating the transition to back CMHT and up to 1 year for Autistic people.
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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• To work with complex care coordinator in providing support to Autistic people to reduce inappropriate admission to inpatients
• To support the discharge process for patients accessing specialist treatment out KMPT services.
• To support patients to integrate back in the community when discharged from specialist
• Out area hospitals by facilitating access and engagement in a range of leisure and other community-based activities, working across boundaries of care and organisations, including Secondary Care, Primary Care and Third Sector.
• To provide regular and practical support to service users and their carers (as appropriate) in developing and managing independence and maintaining dignityand self-respect working in conjunction with other members of the CMHT MDT such as Occupational Therapist.
This advert closes on Thursday 23 Jan 2025
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