Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in Maidstone seeks an Occupational Therapist to provide clinical leadership and support staff development. Responsibilities include managing a complex caseload and ensuring high-quality clinical services for children and young people. Ideal candidates should demonstrate strong leadership, clinical expertise, and a commitment to community health services. Flexible working arrangements are available.

Qualifications

• Clinical expertise in Occupational Therapy.
• Ability to manage a complex clinical caseload.
• Effective leadership and training skills.

Responsibilities

• Motivate others for effective service delivery.
• Ensure staff access regular clinical supervision.
• Develop and lead integrated care pathways.

Job description

Overview

To provide clinical expertise within the Occupational Therapy team and ensure staff have regular access to effective clinical leadership (through supervision, training and support) and continual professional development within this specific clinical area.

To be responsible for ensuring the service provides a high quality and evidence based cost effective clinical service to children and young people accessing the service and their families in collaboration with Professional Leads, Locality Clinical Managers and Team Leads. To provide a highly specialist lead role and to lead on policy development across the Trust within this specialist clinical area (Infant) and acting as a specialist resources to staff, other professionals and agencies as required. To be responsible for ensuring all team members are working to agreed care pathway(s) relating to specialist clinical area. To be responsible for managing a complex and specialist clinical caseload within the Early Years OT team.

Responsibilities

• Motivating others to maintain a focus on effective service delivery and continual service development.
• Ensuring all relevant staff access regular clinical supervision.
• Ensuring processes for management of referrals, transitions, allocations and caseload review are followed by self and other members of the service.
• Leading on developing integrated care pathways within the specific clinical specialism and advising Professional Leads and/or Locality Clinical Managers on these developments.
• Leading on designing and delivering an annual rolling timetable of training to internal and external colleagues and agencies.
• Engaging with local service users and stakeholders to ensure service delivery and developments within the specified clinical area are appropriate to the needs of the local population.

About the role and values

Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we have a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. We seek outstanding people who share our values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Responsive, Excellent.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We ask for information about protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to apply the principles of the scheme to your submission. The data we collect helps us ensure we are attracting diversity and equitable access to career opportunities.

Working arrangements

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we encourage you to discuss flexible working arrangements that suit both you and the service. We will support you to work flexibly where possible without compromising service delivery.

Requirements and driving

As a community Trust, many roles require individuals to drive to perform duties. You will be asked to confirm you have a full UK driving licence where driving is a requirement of the role. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment; if you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team for assistance.

Application guidance

The job description and person specification provide all information about this role. Please review the criteria and tell us what you have done that shows you meet them in your application. If an alternate format is needed for the application, contact the recruitment team. All information supplied should be true and accurate to the best of your knowledge. If you have questions, the recruiting manager is available to assist. Please apply as soon as possible as vacancies may close early due to high interest.

Closing information

This advert closes on Wednesday 1 Oct 2025.