Recruitment open day, 15 July

Date added: 28 June 2023

Open Day at Highlands House

10-12, Highlands House, 10-12 Calverley Park Gardens, Tunbridge Wells TN1 2JN

Saturday 15 July 2023

We are holding our Open Day on Saturday 15 July from 10am to 3pm for you to take a look at what KMPT is all about.  Our friendly team would love to meet you to talk about the career opportunities we have within our South West Kent teams. There will also be the chance for you to support our charity ‘Health, Heart, Hope’ by choosing from a selection of delicious home-made cakes!

Main duties of the job

Come along to our Recruitment Event where you can meet our Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Support Workers and Operational Managers, who will be able to talk to you about the care and treatment that our teams provide and to discuss with you the different career opportunities available in our teams. These include a variety of clinical roles within our Community Mental Health Team, Older Adult Community Mental Health Team, Early Intervention in Psychosis Service and our Psychiatric Liaison team based at Tunbridge Wells Hospital. We will also have people on hand to talk through our apprenticeship opportunities.

Some of our vacancies include:

  • Mental Health Nurses
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Social Workers
  • Support Workers

You can apply for any of our vacancies by clicking on the link below, or if you would prefer to meet us first, we will be holding on the day interviews, so you could walk away with a job offer the very same day!

If you have not had the chance to apply online in advance of the open day, but are keen to be interviewed, please do bring a CV along with you.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As one of our people we offer a range of benefits to support our staff including:

  • Access to the NHS Pension Scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants

  • 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service)

  • A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave

  • Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues, 24/7, from our Staff Support Services.

  • Access to the NHS Car Lease scheme and Cycle to Work scheme.

  • An extensive range of learning and development opportunities

  • Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping, motoring, cinema and finance from a range of providers.

  • Relocation packages

  • Blue Light Card – this is funded by KMPT for all staff

  • Flexible working options available - Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.

For further details contact Ellen Gould on 07468 718914 or visit the job listing page