Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Occupational Therapist

The closing date is 25 June 2025

Job summary

We have an exciting vacancy for a Band 5 Occupational Therapist to join our dynamic community mental health team working across South East Kent Home Treatment Team

This post would be suitable for both a newly qualified occupational therapist or someone with some experience looking to expand their knowledge and experience within a community mental health setting for those experiencing a mental health crisis. You will be well supported in this role by the MDT as well as band 6 Occupational Therapists working in the team. You should have a strong interest in developing skills in working with service users who have complex mental health needs. We are looking for a practitioner with good communication and liaison skills who is forward-thinking and enthusiastic about innovative ways of working.

All community teams across Kent are looking to deliver a new care pathway approach, where service users will be offered a menu of interventions. These interventions would be offered by various professionals, but Occupational Therapists will play a key part in this process.

Main duties of the job

Demonstrates ability to work as a team member as well as autonomously
Work with an agreed number of service users to deliver OT interventions as well as being part of a wider MDT approach.
Balancing all aspects of the job role.
Being flexible and responsive to competing demands
Promoting Occupational Therapy in the service and keeping an occupational focus at the centre of practice

About us

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 dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the futureTo 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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Date posted

12 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,970 to £36,483 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

380-EK317

Job locations

ECAO, St Martin's Hospital Site

Littlebourne Road

Canterbury

CT1 1AZ

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for full details on the responsibilities and person specification.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for full details on the responsibilities and person specification.

Person Specification

Training, Qualifications and Registration

Essential

A recognised Occupational Therapist professional qualification
Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Desirable

Registered member of the relevant professional body and / or special interest group
Trained as a Practice Educator

Experience

Essential

Pre-registration experience of mental health settings and or working with people with mental health conditions
Experience of individual & group work

Desirable

Experience of caseload management
Some clinical experience of mental health problems
Use of functional assessments and activity analysis to formulate patient interventions

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Knowledge in the application of relevant OT theoretical models, and approaches relevant to service user group.
Ability to work cooperatively as part of an inter-professional team
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.
Understanding of professional ethics and their application in practice

Desirable

Knowledge of and ability to apply national policies and procedures including, but not limited to confidentiality, consent, risk management, service user involvement.

Person Specification

Training, Qualifications and Registration

Essential

A recognised Occupational Therapist professional qualification
Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Desirable

Registered member of the relevant professional body and / or special interest group
Trained as a Practice Educator

Experience

Essential

Pre-registration experience of mental health settings and or working with people with mental health conditions
Experience of individual & group work

Desirable

Experience of caseload management
Some clinical experience of mental health problems
Use of functional assessments and activity analysis to formulate patient interventions

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Knowledge in the application of relevant OT theoretical models, and approaches relevant to service user group.
Ability to work cooperatively as part of an inter-professional team
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.
Understanding of professional ethics and their application in practice

Desirable

Knowledge of and ability to apply national policies and procedures including, but not limited to confidentiality, consent, risk management, service user involvement.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Address

ECAO, St Martin's Hospital Site

Littlebourne Road

Canterbury

CT1 1AZ

Employer's website

https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Address

ECAO, St Martin's Hospital Site

Littlebourne Road

Canterbury

CT1 1AZ

Employer's website

https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)