Job summary
- Main area
- Acute Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: The applicant needs to be physically able to complete physical interventions training and use the skills when supporting with restraints. The applicant will need to hold a current driving licence.
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (This post will include working at the weekend.)
- Job ref
- 380-AC0705
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Priority House, Maidstone
- Town
- Maidstone, Kent
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/06/2025 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
Would you like to be part of a forward thinking Mental Health Inpatient Service? The Priority House Occupational Therapy Team is looking for an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join them.
KMPT 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.
Main duties of the job
You must be able to complete Physical Interventions Training to work on the ward.
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 recovery-focused ethos on the units.
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).
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 refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- OT Diploma or Degree
experience
Essential criteria
- Understanding of Groupwork skills
Desirable criteria
- Experience in acute inpatient mental health setting
skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of working in a person-centred way
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of working in line with our Trust values
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
- Edward Lewis
- Job title
- OT Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07749573551
- Additional information
Contact: Edward Lewis OT Lead (pronouns: he/him)
Mobile: 07749573551
E-mail: [email protected]
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