Occupational Therapist- Senior Practitioner | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
| Posting date: | 23 October 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £39,205 - £47,084 per annum Including HCAS% |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 22 November 2024 |
| Location: | Dartford, DA2 6PB |
| Company: | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6747784/380-FR0499-A |
Summary
The Forensic Mental Health services specialise in the assessment and treatment of offenders with mental health conditions, serving the community of Kent and Medway. The low secure service provides 20 inpatient beds for men.
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Occupational Therapist with a passion to work in forensic mental health.You would work as a member of the Occupational Therapy team providing care to service users in the in-patient setting. As well as managing a caseload of patients offering OT assessments and interventions you would work closely with the MDT. There is opportunity to develop skills in OT as well as wider team functions.
The right candidate should be able to support junior team members and take a lead in the management of the OT work across the team with other band 6 colleagues and the area AHP lead.
This post would suit an experienced band 6 looking to develop new skills, but also support can be given to the right candidate to develop from a band 5 post into this position.
We are looking for an occupational therapist with experience, skills and an interest in working with service users who have complex mental health needs. You must have some experience of working with mental health service users as a qualified practitioner. We are looking for a practitioner with good communication and liaison skills who is forward thinking and enthusiastic regarding innovative ways of working.
You will also have the opportunity to provide supervision and support to junior OT staff as well.
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.
- The senior occupational therapist is an experienced occupational therapist within the multi disciplinary care team.
- To identify, develop and provide 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.
- To provide supervision to designated junior staff and students.
KEY RESULT AREAS:
• To ensure assessment of service users and analyse and interpret information gained to form an accurate formulation of function, strengths, capabilities and occupational needs.
• To work collaboratively with service users, staff, and carers to identify goals to determine and deliver an appropriate intervention/recovery plan which maximises occupational engagement and performance whilst balancing risk, and promoting choice and independence.
• To monitor, evaluate and modify therapeutic interventions in order to measure progress and increase efficacy for the best possible service user outcomes and experience.
• To act as an experienced clinician supporting best practice in line with NICE guidance and professional standards
• To demonstrate clinical leadership skills through the management of dedicated projects and approved quality improvement initiatives
This advert closes on Wednesday 6 Nov 2024
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