Job summary
- Main area
- Forensics and Specialist Services Directorate
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-FR0652
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Low Secure Services- Learning Disability and Mental Health- Dartford
- Town
- Dartford
- Salary
- £32,602 - £39,686 per annum (inclusive of high-cost area supplement)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Occupational Therapist
Band 5
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce. 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.
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has come available to join the merging Occupational Therapy team at the Low Secure Services in Dartford within the Forensic directorate.
The Occupational Therapist role will involve working across the Low Secure and Step Down Learning Disability wards of Tarentfort and Brookfield Centres as well as working in the Low Secure Mental Health ward of Allington Centre.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an Occupational therapist with experience, skills and an interest in working with service users;
• To assist in identifying, developing and providing the Occupational Therapy contribution within the multi-disciplinary service in accordance with the needs of service users and the requirements of the service.
• To assess, plan, deliver and evaluate therapeutic interventions for identified service users.
• To manage a defined caseload of service users with occupational needs using evidence based, service user centred, hope and recovery, health promotion and relapse prevention orientated principles and practice
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• To adhere to and apply the current Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct of Occupational Therapists and HCPC Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics and Standards of Proficiency for Occupational Therapists.
• To effectively liaise with service users, family, carers, advocates and health and social care professionals regarding service user’s assessment, treatment and care to ensure continuity of care and delivery of a coordinated service as a member of the MDT
• To assess capacity and obtain informed consent from service users and work within a legal framework with those service users who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
• To ensure service users are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care plans wherever possible.
• In conjunction with colleagues to undertake, record, review and work within individual risk assessment and management plans in line with service and Trust policy.
• To support the implementation of the current and future Allied Health Professions (AHP) strategy
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and the main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Applicant form
Essential criteria
- relevant qualifications
- Pre-registration Experience of working with patients with autism and/or mental health conditions
- Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with patients within forensic setting
- Experience of managing their own case load
application form
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within NHS
Desirable criteria
- Membership to relevant professional body or interest group
- Experience of supporting students or supervising junior staff
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
- Tracey Dixon Carter
- Job title
- Occupational Therapy Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01322 947595
- Additional information
Emma Halliwell, Occupational Therapy Clinical Lead
01322 947695
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