Occupational Therapist

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust; Canterbury; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in Canterbury is seeking an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join their team. You will assess and deliver therapeutic interventions for service users while being part of a multi-disciplinary team. A valid UK driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential. The role offers extensive professional development within a supportive setting.

Qualifications

• Understanding of Groupwork skills.
• Experience in acute inpatient mental health setting preferred.
• Evidence of working in a person-centred way.

Responsibilities

• Assist in identifying and developing Occupational Therapy contributions.
• Assess and deliver therapeutic interventions for service users.
• Manage a defined caseload using evidence-based principles.

Skills

Working in a person-centred way

Groupwork skills

Evidence of working in line with Trust values

Education

OT Diploma or Degree

Job description

Overview

Job overview
Would you like to be part of a forward-thinking Mental Health Inpatient Service? The St Martins Occupational Therapy Team is looking for an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join them. As Occupational Therapists, we are positioned to shape the culture of inpatient settings to promote a therapeutic day that co-exists to enhance therapeutic interventions and a recovery-focused ethos on the units. KMPT offers an extensive preceptorship program for newly qualified staff. Our ward environments offer a unique opportunity to develop your Occupational Therapy skills within a supportive therapy and multi-disciplinary 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).

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.
You must be able to complete Physical Interventions Training to work on the ward.

Working for our organisation

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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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

Person specification

Qualification

• Essential criteria: OT Diploma or Degree

Experience

• Essential criteria: Understanding of Groupwork skills

Desirable criteria

• Experience in acute inpatient mental health setting

Skills

• Essential criteria: Evidence of working in a person-centred way

• Desirable criteria: Evidence of working in line with our Trust values

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