Senior Occupational Therapist

An exclusive career development opportunity has arisen for a motivated Band 5 Occupational Therapist ready to step up, or an established Band 6 seeking a dynamic pivot into advanced mental health practice. This secondment will support you in fast-tracking your skills, clinical leadership and specialist assessment skills within a progressive multidisciplinary 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).

Please note, Visa Sponsorship in unavailable for this post.

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.
• Demonstrates ability to work as a team member as well as autonomously.
• Managing a case load of service users who have complex needs.
• Being flexible and responsive to competing demands.
• Promoting Occupational Therapy in the service and keeping an occupational focus at the centre of 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.

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.

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.

Details

Date posted

12 October 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£39,959 to £48,117 a year

per annum pro rata

Contract

Secondment

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

380-EK479-B

Job locations

Gregory House, St Martins Hospital, Canterbury, CT1 1AZ

Littlebourne Road

Canterbury

CT1 1TD

United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further details of the role and requirements.

Job responsibilities

Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further details of the role and requirements.

Person Specification

Training

Essential

• A recognised Occupational Therapist professional qualification
• Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Trained as a Practice Educator

Experience

Essential

• Experience of individual & Group Interventions
• Ability to make decisions and work co-operatively as part of an inter-professional team
• Ability to prioritise own work effectively and to be able to guide others

Desirable

• Ability to use technology such as Teams, Email, BI and RIO

Knowledge

Essential

• An understanding of the broad aims of current national and local healthcare policy and an appreciation of the implications of this on clinical practice

Desirable

• Experience of use of outcome measures and data to demonstrate efficacy to an MDT

Person Specification

Training

Essential

• A recognised Occupational Therapist professional qualification
• Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Trained as a Practice Educator

Experience

Essential

• Experience of individual & Group Interventions
• Ability to make decisions and work co-operatively as part of an inter-professional team
• Ability to prioritise own work effectively and to be able to guide others

Desirable

• Ability to use technology such as Teams, Email, BI and RIO

Knowledge

Essential

• An understanding of the broad aims of current national and local healthcare policy and an appreciation of the implications of this on clinical practice

Desirable

• Experience of use of outcome measures and data to demonstrate efficacy to an MDT

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

NHS Careers website .

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

NHS Careers website .

Employer details

Employer name

Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust

Address

Gregory House, St Martins Hospital, Canterbury, CT1 1AZ

Littlebourne Road

Canterbury

CT1 1TD

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.kentmedwaymentalhealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust

Address

Gregory House, St Martins Hospital, Canterbury, CT1 1AZ

Littlebourne Road

Canterbury

CT1 1TD

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.kentmedwaymentalhealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Job responsibilities

Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further details of the role and requirements.

Training

Essential

• A recognised Occupational Therapist professional qualification
• Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Trained as a Practice Educator

Experience

Essential

• Experience of individual & Group Interventions
• Ability to make decisions and work co-operatively as part of an inter-professional team
• Ability to prioritise own work effectively and to be able to guide others

Desirable

• Ability to use technology such as Teams, Email, BI and RIO

Knowledge

Essential

• An understanding of the broad aims of current national and local healthcare policy and an appreciation of the implications of this on clinical practice

Desirable

• Experience of use of outcome measures and data to demonstrate efficacy to an MDT