Occupational Therapist | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust; Deal; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK is looking for a qualified professional to join its team, focusing on providing holistic care and supporting patients with complex needs. The role involves assessing and planning patient care, leading junior staff, and collaborating with a multi-professional team. Candidates should have a commitment to high standards of patient care and may require a UK driving licence.

Qualifications

• Commitment to delivering high standards of patient care and improving community health.
• Ability to work in a flexible environment respecting equity and diversity.
• Full UK driving licence may be required for certain roles.

Responsibilities

• Assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of holistic care.
• Develop integrated care plans in partnership with patients.
• Lead and support junior staff in complex assessments and care.

Skills

Patient care

Communication

Assessment skills

Teamwork

Job description

Overview

Urgent Care Services provides short term health, therapy and care support to enable service users to remain in the community / home environment. This may include treating acutely unwell people that would otherwise require hospital admission, and also supports hospital discharges. The service operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Night care includes End of life care, catheter care and other urgent care that is unplanned and cannot wait until the following day, provided by a night nursing team.

Home is nationally evidenced to be the best place to recover and regain independence. Enablement and rehabilitation will be the priority focus with active participation from service users in order to achieve maximum independence.

At KCHFT, we are working with East Kent Hospitals University Trust, who are leading on developing a virtual ward for people with acute respiratory infections, such as a chest infection, or with an underlying condition, like COPD, to be cared for at home.

Patients who agree to be discharged earlier from hospital will be monitored at home using technology, such as apps, wearables or other medical devices remotely – and supported by a consultant, specialist GP or advanced practitioner. What technology will be used is still being scoped as we co-design the wards with patients and colleagues during the months ahead.

Responsibilities

• Assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of holistic care.
• The development of integrated care plans in partnership with the patient.
• To order equipment including specialist equipment and send onward referrals as necessary.
• To act as a lead and senior practitioner to support junior staff to carry out assessments/reassessments of service users and/or pathways with complex needs across the relevant field.
• To actively work as a member of the multi-professional team to provide high quality care to patients.
• To identify any deterioration in patients’ condition, taking appropriate action.
• Manage a caseload of patients on a daily basis consisting of patients with complex needs.
• To support in duty role and completion of triages.
• To give specialised therapy advice to members of the MDT.
• To lead on complex manual handling planning/care.
• To support the Clinical Lead in the management of the team.
• To support and make recommendations to senior managers in order to prioritise and focus efforts to drive forward and achieve business objectives, service improvement strategies and statutory requirements.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC; commitment to delivering high standards of patient care and improving community health.
• Flexible working, equity, diversity and inclusion values; welcome applications from varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences.
• Information on protected characteristics may be collected on application; two ticks may be used to apply principles of the guaranteed interview scheme for disability equality.
• Full UK driving licence may be required where driving is a role requirement; contact Recruitment Team for disabled candidates unable to drive.
• Accurate completion of application information and truthfulness to the best of your knowledge.
• All information supplied on the application should be true and accurate.

Additional Information

As a flexible working friendly organization, we support flexible working arrangements that suit both the trust and the individual. See career pathways for progression within KCHFT.

We strongly encourage colleagues who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated to protect safety of staff, patients and the community.

For questions, contact the recruiting manager via the job advert. Applications are encouraged promptly as vacancies may close early if there is high interest.

Find out more about the community difference here. Good luck! We look forward to welcoming you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.

This advert closes on Tuesday 7 Oct 2025.