Overview
We have a new Community Mental Health Occupational Therapist vacancy. We are looking for a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join the team at South West Kent Mental Health Together and Mental Health Together Plus teams. Community mental health services are undergoing national restructuring with a focus on delivering interventions as a key part of Occupational Therapy. We have an established team of OTs and aim to maintain and develop our current interventions in the new Mental Health Together and Together + services.
Responsibilities
* Complete 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.
* Develop and deliver group work to support complex service users to develop skills for daily living and strategies to manage mental health recovery.
* Contribute to core team functions such as trusted assessments, urgent assessments, risk management and management of clinical pathways delivered by the service, working with a large and varied MDT.
* Provide high quality mental health services to service users with a variety of mental health difficulties; deliver OT assessments and interventions, both group and individual, in line with OT pathways.
* Provide supervision and mentoring to more junior OTs, OT Apprentices and Support Workers; provide OT student placements.
* Contribute to service development and audit.
* Support the delivery of high quality mental health services to service users and carers/family members, in line with the occupational therapy pathways.
Requirements / Qualifications
* Experience at Band 6 level with ability to develop new skills; comfortable supervising others and supporting learning.
* Ability to work within an MDT and to deliver supervision and mentoring.
* Willingness to undertake training and support for unfamiliar areas of working.
About KMPT
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, with services in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC. We care for over 2,000 people in hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year. We employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities and serve diverse communities. We value kindness and compassion as standard and recognise every role as vital to providing an exemplary service.
How to apply / contact
For further details or informal visits contact: Pat Morgan, Deputy Head of Allied Health Professions West, patricia.morgan2@nhs.net, 07887 793358; Louise Nixon, Operational Team Manager (Occupational Therapist) Mental Health Together SWK, Tel 01892 572755, Mobile 07707 138569.
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