Ready to elevate your clinical leadership? You will bridge the gap between complex client needs and innovative recovery plans.
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs.
Responsibilities
* Identify, develop and provide the Occupational Therapy contribution within the multi-disciplinary service in accordance with the needs of service users and the requirements of the service.
* Assess, plan, deliver and evaluate therapeutic interventions for identified service users.
* 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.
* Provide supervision to designated junior staff and students.
* Demonstrate ability to work as a team member as well as autonomously.
* Manage a caseload of service users with complex needs.
* Balance all aspects of the job role.
* Be flexible and responsive to competing demands.
* Promote Occupational Therapy in the service and keep an occupational focus at the centre of practice.
* Apply increasingly complex skills and knowledge commensurate to a higher level of professional practice.
* Ensure assessment of service users, analyse and interpret information gained to form an accurate formulation of function, strengths, capabilities and occupational needs.
* Work collaboratively with service users, staff and carers to identify goals and deliver an appropriate intervention/recovery plan that maximises occupational engagement and performance while balancing risk and promoting choice and independence.
* Monitor, evaluate and modify therapeutic interventions to measure progress and increase efficacy for the best possible service user outcomes and experience.
* Act as an experienced clinician supporting best practice in line with NICE guidance and professional standards.
* Demonstrate clinical leadership skills through the management of dedicated projects and approved quality‑improvement initiatives.
Qualifications
* The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
This advert closes on Friday 15 May 2026.
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