Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Senior Improvement Practitioner

The closing date is 25 May 2025

Job summary

Senior Improvement Practitioner- Shaping the Future of Mental Health Care in Kent

Join KMPT on a transformative journey and make a real difference!

KMPT is embarking on its biggest improvement journey and working alongside our system colleagues we are shaping the agenda of care for Mental Health, learning disability, and autism across the county.

This Senior Improvement Practitioner role is an exciting opportunity to work with an amazing team to design and deliver that agenda and really make a difference to our patients, services users, carers and our people.

Main duties of the job

You will also support our 'Doing Well Together' improvement programme. This includes project and programme, improvement management systems, capability development, strategy deployment and leadership development.

All of our initiatives are aligned to our strategic priorities. You can be assured that you will be leading a range of priority work that matters to our staff, our patients and the people who care for them.

This role is a good fit for someone who wishes to expand their skillset beyond the traditional boundaries of programme management whilst developing their portfolio or for someone from an Operational Excellence background.

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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Date posted

07 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

380-SS0641-A

Job locations

Farm Villa

Hermitage Lane

Barming

ME16 9PH

Job description

Job responsibilities

Demonstrate excellent stakeholder management with staff from Frontline to Board.
Use appropriate methodologies to support teams to identify and resolve problems.
Contribute towards the design of and implement appropriate governance structures which will enable successful delivery of work
Deliver training and coaching to staff as required.

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).

Please see the job description for more details

At KMPT, 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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Demonstrate excellent stakeholder management with staff from Frontline to Board.
Use appropriate methodologies to support teams to identify and resolve problems.
Contribute towards the design of and implement appropriate governance structures which will enable successful delivery of work
Deliver training and coaching to staff as required.

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).

Please see the job description for more details

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Degree (1), Post Grad (2)
Yellow Belt (1), Green Belt (2)
Project (1), Programme (2)

Desirable

Coaching

Experience

Essential

Project (2), Programme (4), Complex Programme (6)
Components: Stakeholder Management (2), Benefits Realisation (2), Process Mapping (1), PMO (1)

Desirable

Training
NHS Experience (1), NHS Context/Policy (1)

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Degree (1), Post Grad (2)
Yellow Belt (1), Green Belt (2)
Project (1), Programme (2)

Desirable

Coaching

Experience

Essential

Project (2), Programme (4), Complex Programme (6)
Components: Stakeholder Management (2), Benefits Realisation (2), Process Mapping (1), PMO (1)

Desirable

Training
NHS Experience (1), NHS Context/Policy (1)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Address

Farm Villa

Hermitage Lane

Barming

ME16 9PH

Employer's website

https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Address

Farm Villa

Hermitage Lane

Barming

ME16 9PH

Employer's website

https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)