About the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. A united mental health service for Kent and Medway. We believe communities live well when better mental health care is a part of everyday life. We have a bold vision, to create communities where mental health care helps people not just live with mental illness, but live well.
Job Overview
The senior occupational therapist is an experienced occupational therapist within the multi‑disciplinary care team. Your role will be to: 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.
Key Responsibilities
* 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.
* Assessment & Planning: Conduct complex service user assessments to create evidence‑based, goal‑oriented recovery plans.
* Intervention: Deliver and adapt therapeutic interventions that maximize independence while managing risk.
* Collaboration: Work within a Multi‑Disciplinary Team (MDT) to coordinate care with families, carers, and external agencies.
* Ethical Practice: Ensure informed consent, assess mental capacity, and uphold service user rights and diversity.
* Compliance: Maintain HCPC registration and strictly adhere to RCOT Code of Ethics, NICE guidelines, and Trust policies.
* Leadership: Lead quality improvement (QI) projects, manage resources/equipment, and represent the service in clinical forums.
* Accountability: Take full legal and professional responsibility for a personal caseload and delegated tasks.
* Staff Oversight: Provide clinical supervision, appraisals, and preceptorship for junior staff and return‑to‑practice clinicians.
* Education: Act as a Practice Educator for students and maintain a robust CPD portfolio through research and audit.
* Provide supervision to designated junior staff and students.
* Demonstrate ability to work as a team member as well as autonomously.
* Manage a case load of service users who have 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.
* Demonstrate an ability to apply increasingly complex skills and knowledge commensurate to a higher level of professional practice.
About The Trust (continued)
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. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year. 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. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join Us
Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's doing well together.
Additional Information
Take a look at our Occupational Therapist Video. Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification.
Closing
This advert closes on Tuesday 24 Mar 2026.
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