Job Description

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.

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

Giving advice and guidance on the legislation

A sound knowledge and previous working with the MHA are a must.

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.

Here are some clips of our KMPT staff, speaking about their role and why they enjoy working for us.

Working at KMPT (youtube.com)

Canterbury site tour (youtube.com)

Being responsible for the implementation of the Mental Health Act Administration across the Canterbury locality. Implementing process to ensure that the legislation of the Act is followed and adhered too.

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Job Description

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Mental Health Act Coordinator to join our team at Little Brook Hospital, Bow Arrow Lane, Dartford, Kent.

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

To co-ordinate the Mental Health Act office and ensure that the Mental Health Act Legislation and Code of Practice is adhered to and followed.

To provide clinical and professional staff with advice to ensure the safe practice of the Mental Health Act legislation.

Maintain up-to-date knowledge of the legislation and any relevant case law

To co-ordinator all aspects of the Mental Health Act in line with the current legislation.

To ensure that all section papers are scrutinised in line with the provisions of the MHA.

To ensure the smooth running of the MHA office and provide advice to the wards accordingly.

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.

Here are some clips of our KMPT staff, speaking about their role and why they enjoy working for us.

Working at KMPT (youtube.com)

Dartford site tour (youtube.com)

Main duties – to ensure the smooth running and adherence to the Mental Health Act legislation and Code of Practice.

Please see job description for more details