Mental Health Hearings Co-ordinator

at  Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced individual to cover a Patient Hearings Review Coordinator role within our Mental Health Act Team.
This is a 12-month fixed-term position to cover maternity leave.
The post will require you to go to hospital sites, when required and inline with our hybrid working policy.

Benefits

• Annual leave allowance starting at 27 days per year (when working full time) + Bank Holiday’s.
• Access to the fantastic NHS pension scheme.
• Eligibility for the Blue Light Card (discount service for the NHS, providing members with thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street).

To arrange all patient review hearings in line with the Mental Health Act and Code of Practice.
The post requires a well-organized person whom has excellent communication skills and that can work alone as well as working within a team. The person needs to have outstanding time management to ensure reviews are catered for in a timely manner.
Knowledge of computer spreadsheets and good computing skills are a must.
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.
To arrange Patient review hearings in a timely manner.
To liaise with the Head of Service and Associate Hospital Managers alongside clinical staff to obtain reports and chase reports when not received.
To escalate areas of concern as and when required.
To provide data and statistics as and when required.
To use spreadsheets to ensure all data is kept up to date and consistent with review information.
To liaise with patients and carers/nearest relatives alongside solicitors and outside organisations

Please refer the Job description for details