Occupational Therapist

Medway Mental Health Nhs Trust; River; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Medway Mental Health NHS Trust in the United Kingdom is seeking a Band 5 Occupational Therapist to join our MDT in community mental health services. The role involves completing OT assessments, delivering interventions, and supporting team colleagues.

You may lead group work, supervise juniors, and contribute to service development and audits. A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle are required for community-based visits.

Qualifications

• Provide high-quality OT assessments and interventions, both group and individual.
• Supervise and mentor junior OTs, apprentices and support staff.
• Deliver group interventions and support complex service users to develop skills for daily living.
• Participate in service development and audits.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality OT assessments and interventions, both group and individual.
• Communicate effectively with service users, carers, and the multidisciplinary team.
• Support service development, audits and contribute to the therapeutic offer.
• Provide supervision and mentoring to junior OTs, apprentices, and support workers.
• Provide OT student placements.

Job description

We are looking for aBand 5 Occupational Therapistto join our multi-disciplinary team. Community mental health services are going through a national restructuring, putting a new emphasis on delivering interventions, of which Occupational Therapy is identified as a key part. We have an established team of OTs that we are looking to expand as we provide more group and individual interventions to our service users. The role would include completing OT assessments and interventions. The intervention may be completed by the successful candidate, or by OT apprentices, support workers, or junior team members under supervision. We are also increasing our offer of group work, looking at supporting complex service users to develop skills for daily living, and others to develop strategies to manage their mental health recovery. Occupational therapy is valued as a core part of the multi-disciplinary team and the post holder will be working in a team with a variety of professionals. As well as occupational therapy activity, you will be involved in delivering core team functions such as dialog + and group interventions. You will support the development of the therapeutic offer within MHT+ and will work closely with their therapy colleagues, members of the interdisciplinary team and AHP leadership.

• Provide high-quality and evidence-based occupational therapy assessments and interventions, both group and individual, to people who access services and their carers/supporters/family members, in line with the occupational therapy pathways.
• Communicate effectively with people who access services, carers, the multi-disciplinary team and when appropriate, outside agencies.
• Contribute to the generic functioning of the team.
• Provide supervision and mentoring to more junior occupational therapists, occupational therapy apprenticeships, and support workers.
• Provide occupational therapy student placements.
• Contribute to service development and audits.
• Take on the role of lead professional as appropriate.
  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).
  We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated 'Good' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD. Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve. Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It's why we're passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident. Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's working well together.