Job summary
- Main area
- Community Rehabilitation
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-NK274
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Britton House
- Town
- Gillingham
- Salary
- £32,073 - £39,043 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/07/2026 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.
Here are some clips of our Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust staff, speaking about their role and why they enjoy working for us
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
Are you an enthusiastic and motivated Occupational Therapist looking to make a real, tangible difference in people's lives? If so, we would love to welcome you to our North Kent Community Rehabilitation Service.
Our mission is simple yet vital: we provide a flexible, compassionate range of mental health interventions to help clients with complex needs manage their health effectively, regain confidence, and thrive independently in their own homes.
How We Work
We believe that sustainable recovery requires a community. That’s why our team works in close partnership with Social Care and local housing providers, ensuring every client has the wrap-around resources they need to succeed on their rehabilitation journey.
As part of our multi-disciplinary team, you will collaborate alongside a supportive and dedicated group of:
- Psychologists
- Nurses
- Support Workers
- Fellow Occupational Therapists
We are looking for someone who brings energy, adaptability, and a genuinely client-centered approach.
While the majority of your time will be spent during standard business hours (Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm), our clients' lives don't always stop at 5:00pm. To truly meet them where they are, a degree of flexibility is required for occasional evening or weekend work—all of which is planned and agreed upon well in advance to respect your own work-life balance.
Main duties of the job
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The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
- 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 rehabilitation service.
- To assess, plan, deliver and evaluate rehabilitation interventions for service users.
- To manage a defined caseload of service users with rehabilitation needs that is service user centred, offers hope and adopts NICE Guidance for rehabilitation to promote recovery, better mental and physical health, relapse prevention and skill development.
Working for our organisation
We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.
Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.
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. 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 working well together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Training, Qualifications and Registration
Essential criteria
- Qualified and registered as an Occupational Therapist with Health and Care Professions Council.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of (either through previous employment or student placements) of people with mental health problems.
- Experience of (either through previous employment or student placements) of working with individuals and groups.
- Experience of applying the OT process.
Desirable criteria
- Documented evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Computer literate
- Knowledge of and ability to apply national policies and procedures including but not limited to confidentiality, consent, risk management, service user involvement.
- Knowledge in the application of relevant OT theoretical models, and approaches relevant to service user group.
- 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.
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
- Jackie Nicholson
- Job title
- Operational Lead, North Kent Community Rehab
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07707 152 158
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