Home First Team Manager

Job overview

Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts, the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Medway Community Healthcare or working on the Staff Bank within these organisations. Nursing and AHP vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses/AHPs.

We are recruiting for a reliable and adaptable Home First Team Manager to join our professional service.

The Home First Team Manager is responsible for the effective day-to-day operation of the Home First service.

This includes leading a multidisciplinary team of assessors, community support workers, and administrative staff to ensure the safe and timely delivery of person-centred care that supports recovery and promotes independence at home.

Please note, this vacancy does not meet the criteria for skilled worker sponsorship and therefore, we are unable to accept applications from candidates that cannot provide documentary evidence of right to work in the United Kingdom.

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities include:

• Operational Leadership: Oversee the planning and coordination of staff rotas, ensuring appropriate deployment of support workers and assessors across the locality to meet service demands.
• Case and Workforce Management: Hold responsibility for the management of a defined caseload, ensuring timely assessments, support planning, and discharge coordination.
• Recruitment and Development: Lead on recruitment, induction, and training of staff. Promote a culture of continuous learning by supporting team members' development through mentoring, regular supervision, and performance reviews.
• Service Monitoring and Reporting: Maintain and improve local systems to monitor activity levels, outcomes, and referral trends.
• Quality, Safety, and Safeguarding: Promote and maintain a safe working environment for service users and staff. Respond to and escalate safeguarding, medication incidents, complaints, and other concerns as required, ensuring appropriate documentation and learning follow-up.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Work collaboratively with wider system partners including KEaH, community nursing, social care, GPs, and acute discharge teams to ensure seamless care pathways and positive outcomes for individuals.
• Innovation and Improvement: Identify areas for service development and support the implementation of new models of care or workflows that improve efficiency and patient experience.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a community Trust, many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment. If you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via kentchft.recruitment@nhs.net, quoting the vacancy reference number, so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.