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

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	14 Awst 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£38,682 - £46,580 per annum
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	13 Medi 2025
Lleoliad:	Maidstone, ME16 9PH
Cwmni:	Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7360494/380-WK0309

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We are recruiting an experienced Band 6 Senior Occupational Therapist to join our multi-disciplinary care team, which is based at Priority House in Maidstone.

In this role you will 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.

You will Assess, plan, deliver and evaluate therapeutic interventions for identified service users. The role also requires you 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.

The 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).
• Provide supervision to designated junior staff and students.
• Ensure assessment of service users and analyse and interpret information gained to form an accurate formulation of function, strengths, capabilities and occupational needs.
• 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.
• Monitor, evaluate and modify therapeutic interventions in order to measure progress and increase efficacy for the best possible service user outcomes and experience.
• Act as an experienced clinician supporting best practice in line with NICE guidance and professional standards.
• 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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• Demonstrates ability to work as a team member as well as autonomously
• Managing a case load of service users who have complex needs
• 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
• Demonstrate an ability to apply increasingly complex skills and knowledge commensurate to a higher level of professional practice.

Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.






This advert closes on Thursday 28 Aug 2025

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