An exciting opportunity has arisen within the East Kent Community Rehabilitation Service at Rivendell.
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.
This is a permanent post so would be an ideal opportunity for an individual wanting to develop their leadership skills
Rivendell is situated in Eastry, near Sandwich 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 10 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.
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.
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, young people and 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 mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. 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 working well together.
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 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 refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification
