Job summary
- Main area
- Acute Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (This post can include working at the weekend.)
- Job ref
- 380-AC0798
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Orchard Ward
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £32,073 - £39,043 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/05/2026 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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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.
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Job overview
Would you like to be part of a forward-thinking Mental Health Inpatient Service? The Orchard Ward Occupational Therapy Team is looking for an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join them.
As Occupational Therapists, we are positioned to shape the culture of inpatient settings to promote a therapeutic day that co-exists to enhance therapeutic interventions and a recovery-focused ethos on the units.
Kent and Medway Mental Health Trust offers an extensive preceptorship program for newly qualified staff. Our ward environments offer a unique opportunity to develop your Occupational Therapy skills within a supportive therapy and multi-disciplinary team.
As part of this role there will be a requirement to undertake home assessments and therefore regular travel will be required.
Main duties of the job
- 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.
- You must be able to complete Physical Interventions Training and undertake Physical Intervention work on the ward
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
Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- A recognised Occupational Therapist professional qualification
- Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of individual & group work
- Pre-registration experience of mental health settings and or working with people with mental health conditions
Desirable criteria
- Experience in acute inpatient mental health setting
- Experience of caseload management
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of working in a person-centred way
- Understanding of professional ethics and their application in practice
- Computer literate. Able to use e-mail, Word, Excel and access Internet resources
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
- Rachel Cook
- Job title
- Occupational Therapy Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07585961017
- Additional information
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