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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 going through a national restructuring, putting a new emphasis on delivering interventions, of which Occupational Therapy is identified as a key part. We have an established team of OTs and are looking to maintain and develop our current interventions in the new Mental Health Together and Together + services.
The role would include completing 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.
We are also increasing our offer of group work looking at supporting complex service users to develop skills for daily living, and others to develop and strategies to manage their mental health recovery.
As well as OT activity the candidate will be involved in delivering core team functions such as trusted assessments, urgent assessment and risk management and management of clinical pathways delivered by the service, working with a large and varied MDT.
Training and support would be offered to support the candidate with areas of working that are unfamiliar.
This post would suit an experienced band 6 looking to develop new skills.
Main Duties Of The Job
* To support the delivering of high quality mental health services to service users experiencing a variety of mental health difficulties.
* To provide high quality and evidence based occupational therapy assessments and interventions, both group and individual, to people who access services and their carers/supporters/family members, in line with the occupational therapy pathways.
* To communicate effectively with people who access services, carers the multi-disciplinary team and when appropriate outside agencies.
* To contribute to the generic functioning of the team
* To provide supervision and mentoring to more junior occupational therapists, occupational therapy apprenticeships, and support workers.
* To provide occupational therapy student placements
* To contribute to service development and audit
* he 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)
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
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, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Pat Morgan Job title: Deputy Head of Allied Health Professions West Email address: patricia.morgan2@nhs.net Telephone number: 07887793358
Louise Nixon Operational Team Manager (Occupational Therapist) Mental Health Together SWK
Tel No: 01892 572755
Mobile number: 07707138569
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