Rapid Response Shift Coordinator

6 months ago


Maidstone, United Kingdom Kent and Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust Full time

Job overview

We are thrilled to share that through significant investment in our community mental health function, we can offer opportunities to clinicians to dedicate their time to working with individuals experiencing mental health crises in the community, 24 hours a day.

 Our team encompasses all that is important to KMPT through the provision of timely rapid response assessments and home treatment interventions to individuals requiring urgent mental health services. The Rapid Response Shift Co-ordinator is an exciting new role working 24/7 receiving calls from the Urgent Mental Health Helpline and coordinating Gate-keeping assessments

This is a permanent post which will have responsibility for county-wide referrals

We welcome applicants with experience working with people with a wide range of mental health conditions, who are competent and confident. 

Main duties of the job 

Co-ordination of referrals from Urgent Mental Health Helpline Co-ordination of Gatekeeping assessments Effectively communication with Rapid Response Clinicians Manage and co-ordinate lone working processes. Use of Electronic patient information systems.

You should be able to work shifts including nights, bank holidays, and weekends, and be able to undertake physical intervention training to support other teams with KMPT.

Main duties of the job

Co-ordination of referrals from Urgent Mental Health Helpline Co-ordination of Gatekeeping assessments Effectively communication with Rapid Response Clinicians Manage and co-ordinate lone working processes. Use of Electronic patient information systems.

You should be able to work shifts including nights, bank holidays, and weekends, and be able to undertake physical intervention training to support other teams with KMPT.

Working for our organisation

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.


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