Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Occupational Therapist

The closing date is 15 July 2025

Job summary

We have a new Community Mental Health Occupational Therapist vacancy.

We are looking for a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join the team at South West Kent Mental Health Together and Mental Health Together Plus teams.

Community mental health services are going through a national restructuring, putting a new emphasis on delivering interventions, of which Occupational Therapy is identified as a key part. We have an established team of OTs and are looking to maintain and develop our current interventions in the new Mental Health Together and Together + services.

The role would include completing OT assessments and interventions. The intervention may be completed by the successful candidate, or by OT apprentices, support workers or junior team members under supervision.

We are also increasing our offer of group work looking at supporting complex service users to develop skills for daily living, and others to develop and strategies to manage their mental health recovery.

As well as OT activity the candidate will be involved in delivering core team functions such as trusted assessments, urgent assessment and risk management and management of clinical pathways delivered by the service, working with a large and varied MDT.

Training and support would be offered to support the candidate with areas of working that are unfamiliar.

This post would suit an experienced band 6 looking to develop new skills.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job:

To support the delivering of high quality mental health services to service users experiencing a variety of mental health difficulties.
To provide high quality and evidence based occupational therapy assessments and interventions, both group and individual, to people who access services and their carers/supporters/family members, in line with the occupational therapy pathways.
To communicate effectively with people who access services, carers the multi-disciplinary team and when appropriate outside agencies.
To contribute to the generic functioning of the team
To provide supervision and mentoring to more junior occupational therapists, occupational therapy apprenticeships, and support workers.
To provide occupational therapy student placements
To contribute to service development and audit
he 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)

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

02 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

380-WK0290

Job locations

Highlands House, Tunbridge Wells

10-12 Calverley Park Gardens

Tunbridge Wells

TN1 2JN

Job description

Job responsibilities

Our clinical pathways focus on interventions for people with complex mental health difficulties including personality disorders and interventions for people with enduring conditions. This is supported by our Allied Health Professions Strategy focused on enabling independence, transforming transitions, and influencing health and well-being in order to help individuals rebuild their lives.

The care pathways will be delivered by various professionals, and it has been recognised that occupational therapists play a key part in this process. Interventions delivered include a range of occupational therapy groups and individual occupational therapy assessment and treatment.

We have developed groups to support those develop skills and techniques in managing their emotions, others facilitating the development of life skills and to improve ADLs as well as supporting people to look past their diagnosis and reflect on their recovery journey and set goals to work towards their future aspirations. In addition to this, there has been a focus on occupational therapists joint working with support workers to facilitate transitions into other local services.

As well as delivering one-to-one OT interventions there are opportunities to develop a range of skills and deliver focussed interventions to individuals

The post holder will also be involved in the delivery of Trusted assessments and supporting the wider team with management and delivery of care through different pathways, including complex case management, Complex Emotional Difficulties, Urgent and Recovery Pathways.

Please see the attached job description for further details.

Job description

Job responsibilities

As well as delivering one-to-one OT interventions there are opportunities to develop a range of skills and deliver focussed interventions to individuals

Please see the attached job description for further details.

Person Specification

Person Spec

Essential

OT qualification
Registered with HCPC
Experience in Mental Health

Desirable

Practice Educator Experience
post grad development
Demonstrates knowledge of Outcome measures

Assessment and intervention

Essential

Assessment used
Interventions demonstrated

Desirable

CPD, reflective practise demonstrated

Person Specification

Person Spec

Essential

OT qualification
Registered with HCPC
Experience in Mental Health

Desirable

Practice Educator Experience
post grad development
Demonstrates knowledge of Outcome measures

Assessment and intervention

Essential

Assessment used
Interventions demonstrated

Desirable

CPD, reflective practise demonstrated

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

Highlands House, Tunbridge Wells

10-12 Calverley Park Gardens

Tunbridge Wells

TN1 2JN

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

Highlands House, Tunbridge Wells

10-12 Calverley Park Gardens

Tunbridge Wells

TN1 2JN

Employer's website

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