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Are you passionate about your Occupational Therapy profession and looking for an amazing career!

Our West Kent Therapy Services are looking for motivated Occupational Therapists to work as part of our multidisciplinary services.

The West Kent Occupational Therapy rotation scheme will offer the opportunity to complete six months rotations, gaining experience across a range of community teams including:

• Community Hospitals
• Community Rehabilitation
• Neurorehabilitation
• Falls Prevention
• Urgent Therapy Service

You will gain experience across in-patient, clinic, group and domiciliary settings, and be able to build a wide portfolio of OT experience and skills working alongside our specialist teams.

These roles will suit those who are newly graduating, returning to practice or looking to move to a community role for a new challenge. We have a robust preceptorship programme for the first year in post.

Applicants will be required to have a full driving license and car, as being able to travel around the locality independently is essential to role

Main duties of the job

Your role will be to: 

• To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner with supervision from senior occupational therapists
• To be professionally and legally accountable for a designated clinical caseload
• To ensure comprehensive accurate electronic records are maintained for all patient interactions
• To contribute to the wider MDT

 

In return, you will be working for an "Outstanding" rated Trust. Here at KCHFT we are constantly working to improve the lives of our staff and our patients. We care for you so you can care for your patients.

Our “We Care” strategy means that our ambitions are to put our communities first, deliver a better patient experience and importantly, be a great place to work for all of our workforce. 

More than half of our workforce work flexibly, including compressed hours and term time only. More than 70% of our workforce feel we take positive action on health and wellbeing, and we aim to improve this. We are proud to say that we consistently score above the national average in our staff survey results, particularly for our focus on the well-being of our workforce.  

And with the forward NHS vision being based on community care, there has never been a better time to join us.

 

Working for our organisation

One of the largest community NHS trusts in the UK, KCHFT are rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC. We’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of care to patients and deliver excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values Compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent

 

We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, which leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. So, all our colleagues have equal access to career opportunities.

 

Flexibility is another way we do this. In the NHS, we’re reminded every day how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to 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 without having to sacrifice time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both

 

Looking for professional development? We can support that too! Our career pathways will help you achieve your aspirations