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-FR0480-E
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trevor Gibbens Unit Maidstone
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Occupational Therapist
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
An exciting opportunity has come available to join the Occupational Therapy team at the Trevor Gibbens Unit at Maidstone within the Forensic directorate.
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).
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
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
• 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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Abbie Crysell
- Job title
- Occupational Therapy Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07394 204159
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