Team Leader

The Forensic Low Secure & Learning Disability Forensic Inpatient service is offering an opportunity for a Band 6 Team Leader at the Brookfield Centre.

Brookfield Centre is a 13 bed rehabilitation inpatient unit catering for men from the age of 18. We provide mental health support for adults with learning disabilities (LD). We specialise in the assessment and treatment of men with a learning disability whose offending behaviour and complex mental health needs require care in a locked rehabilitation setting

The ward consists of a multi-disciplinary team of health care assistants, nurses, occupational therapists, psychologists, speech and language therapist, doctors and consultants.

Patients are offered therapeutic activities by the occupational therapy team and their care is reviewed regularly during ward round and other multi-disciplinary team meetings., Under the overall direction of the Clinical Nurse Manager, maintain high standards of patient care and ward performance. Be professionally responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of a multidisciplinary programme of care. Support the Clinical Nurse Manager and the multidisciplinary team in the leadership of the nursing team, patient care and ward. Manage the ward in the absence of the Clinical Nurse Manager.

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 across the county.

The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.

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.