Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Will be working across 5 days (compressed hours are not an option))
- Job ref
- 380-NK255
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sittingbourne PCN
- Town
- Sittingbourne
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Senior ARRS Mental Health Practitioner
Band 7
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.
Here are some clips of our Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust staff, speaking about their role and why they enjoy working for us
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
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.
Are you an experienced mental health professional who enjoys working autonomously?
Then we have an exciting role available in the Sittingbourne PCN. The role helps to bridge the gap between Primary Care and specialist Mental Health services by delivering high quality Mental Health care in Primary Care settings and ensuring people's needs are met in a timely way.
There will be a requirement to travel between various GP surgeries in the locality, in a timely manner.
Main duties of the job
The role requires a highly competent, proficient practitioner, who is able to work autonomously and creatively in this busy and demanding role.
Excellent assessment skills and knowledge of local services are essential to this role. Experience of being in a leadership role is valuable.
You will also be providing supervision to band 6 Mental Health Practitioners across the locality if in place.
Successful candidates must be experienced Mental Health Practitioners and have experience of working in a Primary Care and/or Community Mental Health setting. Roles are open to all professions.
You will be a confident assertive communicator with colleagues and stakeholders alike.
The PCN is keen to have someone who is a prescriber however this is desirable and not essential. There will be opportunities for development.
Above all you will have the ambition and drive needed to work within an environment of change and innovation.
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
Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification
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).
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A degree or equivalent qualification in Mental Health Nursing or other relevant healthcare profession
- State registration with the HCPC, Social Work Council or NMC
Desirable criteria
- Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 4 years post registration experience in mental health with at least 2 years’ experience of working within secondary care community mental health
- Experience of working collaboratively with other organisations
- Experience of supervising junior staff and students
Desirable criteria
- Experience working in primary care
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to work autonomously and use own initiative
- An advanced understanding of mental health problems and treatment options/models that can be used to assist recovery
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of Quality Improvement Programme
Skills
Essential criteria
- Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, cares/ families and all members of the multidisciplinary team
- Provide effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice
- Good organisational skills & Able to work flexibly and cooperatively as part of a team
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
- Collette Chamberlain
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07766 726272
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