Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
Occupational Therapist
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Job Opportunity: Band 5 Occupational Therapist
Ready to kickstart your career in a supportive team that truly values your potential? We are looking for an enthusiastic, forward-thinking Band 5 Occupational Therapist to join our fast-paced Home Treatment Team (HTT). This is an opportunity to build a rock-solid clinical foundation right on the front lines of mental health, working with service users in their own homes during crucial stages of their recovery.
You won't be navigating this alone; you’ll have robust preceptorship support, dedicated clinical supervision, and a welcoming multi-disciplinary team to guide you. If you are passionate about the core power of OT—using functional assessments and creative interventions to help people regain independence—this is the perfect launchpad for your career.
Key Responsibilities:
- 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.
- To ensure assessment of service users and analyse and interpret information gained to form an accurate formulation of function, strengths, capabilities, and occupational needs.
- To work collaboratively with service users, staff, and carers to identify goals to determine and deliver an appropriate intervention/recovery plan which maximises occupational engagement and performance whilst balancing risk and promoting choice and independence.
- To monitor, evaluate, and modify therapeutic interventions in order to measure progress and increase efficacy for the best possible service user outcomes and experience.
- To act as a competent clinician supporting best practice in line with NICE guidance and professional standards.
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Requirements:
- 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).
About Us:
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).
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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.
Contact Information:
For further details or informal visits, contact:
- Name: Daniella Smith
- Job title: SEK Home Treatment Team Manager
- Email address: daniella.smith5@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01227 666188
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