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Senior Occupational Therapist | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
| Posting date: | 08 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,338 - £44,962 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 May 2025 |
| Location: | Maidstone, ME16 9PL |
| Company: | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7135496/380-FR0520-C |
Summary
Previous applicants need not apply
Join our dynamic Forensic Occupational Therapy Team at KMPT!
Are you an innovative, compassionate, and recovery-focused Occupational Therapist ready to take the next step in your career? We are looking for a Band 6 OT to join our established Forensic OT team at the Trevor Gibbens Unit (TGU) – a medium secure hospital providing specialist care for adults with complex mental health needs and forensic histories.
You’ll be working across specific pathways with patients detained under the Mental Health Act, supporting their recovery journey, trauma-informed care, and risk-sensitive practice.
What we offer:
• A supportive and experienced multi-disciplinary team
• A strong Occupational Therapy identity with access to regular supervision and CPD opportunities
• A service underpinned by the Model of Human Occupation (MOHO) and evidence-based practice
• Opportunities to deliver both 1:1 and group interventions tailored to individual goals and needs
• A focus on patient-centred care, skill development, and preparation for transition or discharge
About you:
• HCPC-registered Occupational Therapist
• Passionate about forensic mental health and recovery-oriented practice
• Skilled in assessment, planning and delivering occupation-focused interventions
• Confident working within the MOHO framework
• Able to manage risk within a secure environment and contribute to robust clinical documentation
• A collaborative practitioner who thrives in a multi-disciplinary team
• 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 that maximises occupational engagement and performance whilst balancing risk, and promoting choice and independence.
• To monitor, evaluate and modify therapeutic interventions 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
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.
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Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
This advert closes on Monday 21 Apr 2025
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