Mental Health Act Co-ordinator
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Job summary
Mental Health Act Coordinator
Location: St Martins Hospital
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Mental Health Act Coordinator to join our team at St Martin's Hospital. In this crucial role, you will play a vital part in ensuring the safe and lawful care of patients detained under the Mental Health Act.
Key Responsibilities:
Championing the Mental Health Act:
- Ensure all aspects of the Mental Health Act and its associated Code of Practice are adhered to within the hospital setting.
- Provide expert advice and guidance to hospital staff on all matters relating to the Mental Health Act.
- Training and Education:
- Deliver comprehensive training on the Mental Health Act to all relevant professionals within the hospital.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of the legislation and any relevant case law.
- Please don't apply if you have no Mental Health Act Administration experience as this is required for the role.
Main duties of the job
- Scrutinising all MHA documents
- Sending reminders to all professionals
- Ensuring all appeals with the Mental Health Act tribunals and adhered to and delivered with the specified deadline dates and times.
- Managing the part time member of staff
- Delivering training on the Mental Health Act
About us
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 strategyOur mission is what we set out to do every dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the futureTo 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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Details
Date posted
17 March 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£29,970 to £36,483 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
380-SS0618-A
Job locations
St Martins Canterbury
Little bourne Road
Canterbury
CT1 1AZ
Employer details
Employer name
Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
Address
St Martins Canterbury
Little bourne Road
Canterbury
CT1 1AZ
Employer's website
https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
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