# Senior Occupational Therapist

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- **Location:** Priority House (ME16 9PH)
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Occupational Therapist
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata
- **Contract type:** 13 months (Secondment cover for maternity leave until 2nd Nov 2027)
- **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-26T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-12T15:20:58.926Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Kent/Canterbury/Kent_Medway_Mental_Health_NHS_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v8361216
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8361216?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

An exclusive career development opportunity has arisen for a motivated Band 5 Occupational Therapist ready to step up, or an established Band 6 seeking a dynamic pivot into advanced mental health practice. This secondment will support you in fast-tracking your skills, clinical leadership and specialist assessment skills within a progressive multidisciplinary team.

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).

Please note, Visa Sponsorship in unavailable for this post.

### Main duties of the job

- To assist in identifying, developing and providing 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.
- Demonstrates ability to work as a team member as well as autonomously.
- Managing a case load of service users who have complex needs.
- Being flexible and responsive to competing demands.
- Promoting Occupational Therapy in the service and keeping an occupational focus at the centre of practice.
- 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.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further details of the role and requirements.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Training

**Essential**

- A recognised Occupational Therapist professional qualification
- Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Trained as a Practice Educator

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- An understanding of the broad aims of current national and local healthcare policy and an appreciation of the implications of this on clinical practice

**Desirable**

- Experience of use of outcome measures and data to demonstrate efficacy to an MDT

### Experience

**Essential**

- Experience of individual & Group Interventions
- Ability to make decisions and work co-operatively as part of an inter-professional team
- Ability to prioritise own work effectively and to be able to guide others

**Desirable**

- Ability to use technology such as Teams, Email, BI and RIO

## Documents

- [staff benefits (pdf, 623.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2394)
- [job description and person specification (pdf, 192.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10687901)

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