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Occupational Therapist | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust

Job details
Posting date: 06 January 2025
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 05 February 2025
Location: Maidstone, Kent, ME16 9PH
Company: Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6881022/380-AC0665

Summary


Would you like to be part of a forward thinking mental health inpatient service? The Ruby ward 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.

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.

Applicants are required to be a car drivers and have access to a car for home visits and assessments, unless supported by the Equality Act whereby the Trust will be expected to make reasonable adjustments for the successful candidate.

Please be aware, although we are a Mental Health Ward, all staff are expected to wear PPE in line with Government Guidelines.

You must be able to complete Physical Interventions Training to work on the ward.

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 across the county.

The Trust has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.

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.

To adhere to and apply the current Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct of Occupational Therapists and Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics and Standards of Proficiency for Occupational Therapists.

To be responsible for maintaining professional registration.

To support the implementation of the current and future Allied Health Professions (AHP) strategy

To adhere to KMPTs policies, procedures and guidelines.

To ensure that the Trust’s values are upheld in Occupational Therapy practice.

To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work.

To take into account the individuality of the views, wishes, values and beliefs of service users, and relatives, respecting equality and diversity and contribute to the provision of a service sensitive to these needs.

Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.


This advert closes on Monday 20 Jan 2025

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