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Mental Health Act Co-ordinator | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust

Job details
Posting date: 26 June 2025
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rata
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 26 July 2025
Location: Maidstone, ME16 9PH
Company: Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 7307851/380-SS0660-A

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Summary


Mental Health Act Co-ordinator required for a busy Mental Health Act department based in Priority House Hospital, Maidstone.

The post holder must have knowledge of working with the Mental Health Act legislation and the Code of Practice and be fully sighted on the administration and legislation.

To scrutinise section paperwork

To ensure deadlines are met in regards to patient appeals/reviews

To liaise with all professionals and provide advice on the Mental Health Act

To provide training to all professionals on the Mental Health Act

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 scrutinise section paperwork

To ensure deadlines are met in regards to patient appeals/reviews

To liaise with all professionals and provide advice on the Mental Health Act

To provide training to all professionals on the Mental Health Act

To manage a Mental Health Act Administrator and guide them through the processes of the legislation


This advert closes on Thursday 10 Jul 2025

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