1 in 4 of us in the UK will experience mental ill health each year. And when that happens in Kent and Medway, KMPT is there to offer the most seriously unwell people specialist care and support. Each year we look after over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
The newly formed involvement and engagement function at KMPT has the voices of our patients, their families and our communities at the heart of everything we do.
We are looking for a self-motivated, inspiring and collaborative manager to help establish our new function, and manage patient, public and stakeholder involvement across the trust.
It is our ambition to be a patient-led, clinically-enabled organisation where patients, alongside our staff, drive improvements to patient quality and experience; where the patient and carer voice is listened to and acted upon in everything we do; and where we have trusted and enduring relationships with communities to improve services and outcomes for people.
Interested in this exciting role? These are the key results areas:
To plan, deliver, and evaluate impactful and outcome-focused communications campaigns, products, and activities that support the organisation’s priorities;
- To provide strategic communications counsel and support to a range of colleagues across the trust;
- To oversee external communications effort that both protects our brand and raises our profile;
- To work with the wider team to help us innovate and improve, both in terms of what we do and how we do it.
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.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kindra Hyttner Job title: Director of Communications and Engagement Email address: Kindra.Hyttner@nhs.net Telephone number: 07501 269101
