Job summary
- Main area
- Community Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: Full Time; Working on a rota 7 days/week between 8am and 21:30pm, long days.
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-EK317
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- ECAO, St Martin's Hospital Site
- Town
- Canterbury
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Occupational Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 5
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
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.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
We have an exciting vacancy for a Band 5 Occupational Therapist to join our dynamic community mental health team working across South East Kent Home Treatment Team
This post would be suitable for both a newly qualified occupational therapist or someone with some experience looking to expand their knowledge and experience within a community mental health setting for those experiencing a mental health crisis. You will be well supported in this role by the MDT as well as band 6 Occupational Therapists working in the team. You should have a strong interest in developing skills in working with service users who have complex mental health needs. We are looking for a practitioner with good communication and liaison skills who is forward-thinking and enthusiastic about innovative ways of working.
All community teams across Kent are looking to deliver a new care pathway approach, where service users will be offered a menu of interventions. These interventions would be offered by various professionals, but Occupational Therapists will play a key part in this process.
Main duties of the job
- Demonstrates ability to work as a team member as well as autonomously
- Work with an agreed number of service users to deliver OT interventions as well as being part of a wider MDT approach.
- Balancing all aspects of the job role.
- Being flexible and responsive to competing demands
- Promoting Occupational Therapy in the service and keeping an occupational focus at the centre of practice
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 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.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description for full details on the responsibilities and person specification.
Person specification
Training, Qualifications and Registration
Essential criteria
- A recognised Occupational Therapist professional qualification
- Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Desirable criteria
- Registered member of the relevant professional body and / or special interest group
- Trained as a Practice Educator
Experience
Essential criteria
- Pre-registration experience of mental health settings and or working with people with mental health conditions
- Experience of individual & group work
Desirable criteria
- Experience of caseload management
- Some clinical experience of mental health problems
- Use of functional assessments and activity analysis to formulate patient interventions
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge in the application of relevant OT theoretical models, and approaches relevant to service user group.
- Ability to work cooperatively as part of an inter-professional team
- Basic factual knowledge of the importance of enabling people to do the things they want, need or are expected to do to support them in being well in life.
- Understanding of professional ethics and their application in practice
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of and ability to apply national policies and procedures including, but not limited to confidentiality, consent, risk management, service user involvement.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Daniella Smith
- Job title
- Operational Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01227 533380
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