Administrator, Mental Health, Healthcare

The Liaison, Diversion and Reconnect (LDR) Service is a countywide assessment service, serving Kent and Medway's police custody suites, magistrates, crown courts and the wider community.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the team as a Band 3 Administrator.

This is a key role within the service, providing a flexible and comprehensive admin provision to enable us to deliver the best possible service user experience we can.

You will join an established team of admin and clinical staff, in a friendly and welcoming environment.

This role is based at the office in Maidstone and is for 3 days a week, one of which will be a Tuesday.

The successful candidate should have excellent communication skills, be a professional representative for the service and be a conscientious, adaptable administrator.

LDR is an all age, all-vulnerability service, providing liaison and diversion both inside and outside of the criminal justice system. We screen and assess individuals over the age of 10, suspected of committing a crime, to identify health and social care vulnerabilities. The aim of the service is to improve the service user experience by connecting them with the right service at the right time.

We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway.

Rated 'Good' by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.

Our vision is simple:
We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It's why we're passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.

Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's doing well together.

We are a multidisciplinary team consisting of mental health nurses, social workers, liaison and diversion workers, apprentices, lived experience practitioners and a consultant psychiatrist.

We work closely with the police, courts, youth offending teams, probation, community mental health teams, social care providers and many more health and social care partners. We will offer full support in the form of supervision, appraisal and personal development plans, as well as a real investment in your training and development.

• Updating for reports and be able to display simple charts
• Supervising others
• Working independently

• General Office procedures

• Educated to NVQ level 3 /RSA 3 or equivalent experience
• GCSE in Maths and English or equivalent

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.