Occupational Therapist

3 weeks ago


Canterbury Kent, United Kingdom Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust Full time

We are currently looking for a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join the Younger Adult occupational therapy Inpatient team at St Martin's Hospital. You will lead up an occupational therapy team on one of our wards, being part of the MDT, supporting & developing therapeutic interventions and providing occupational therapy assessment and treatment.


This is an exciting time as we move forward with a new integrated ward model promoting therapeutic interventions, supporting recovery and improving patient experience.


Occupational therapy is valued as a core part of the MDT and the post holder will be working in a team with a variety of professionals. There is opportunity to develop skills in occupational therapy 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 occupational therapy work across the team with other band 6 colleagues and the OT clinical lead.
We are looking for an occupational therapist with experience, skills and an interest in working with service users who have complex mental health needs on an inpatient setting. You must have some experience of working with mental health service users as a qualified practitioner. You will also have the opportunity to provide supervision and support to junior occupational therapy staff as well as support workers.
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.The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) 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.
The post holder will be using their core occupational therapy skills to deliver Occupational Therapy assessment and interventions within an Acute Inpatient unit. The post holder will work closely with other Occupational Therapy Colleagues as well as the rest of the MDT to deliver therapeutic interventions on a group/individual basis.


There will be opportunity to develop skills in leadership and there will be an expectation that the post holder will be involved in the development and supervision of junior staff and students.


A commitment to continued professional development is essential. Degree in Occupational Therapy

Experience working in mental health
Knowledge of and ability to apply national policies and procedures including but not limited to confidentiality, consent, risk management, service user involvement.
St Martin's Hospital, Canterbury



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