• Job Description

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  Job summary

  Would you like to be part of a forward thinking Mental Health Inpatient Service? The Priority House Occupational Therapy Team is looking for an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join them.

  KMPT offers an extensive preceptorship program for newly qualified staff. Our ward environments offer a unique opportunity to develop your Occupational Therapy skills within a supportive therapy and multi-disciplinary team.

  Main duties of the job

  You must be able to complete Physical Interventions Training to work on the ward.

  As Occupational Therapists, we are positioned to shape the culture of inpatient settings to promote a therapeutic day that co-exists to enhance therapeutic interventions and recovery-focused ethos on the units.

  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).

  About us

  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 arerated 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 dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

  Our vision is where we want to be in the futureTo provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

  Check out our recruitment videos Recruitment - YouTube

  Details

  Date posted

  28 May 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 5

  Salary

  £29,970 to £36,483 a year per annum

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  380-AC0705

  Job locations

  Priority House, Maidstone

  Hermitage Lane

  Maidstone, Kent

  ME16 9PH

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.

  Person Specification

  Qualification

  Essential

  • OT Diploma or Degree

  Experience

  Essential

  • Understanding of Groupwork skills

  Desirable

  • Experience in acute inpatient mental health setting

  skills

  Essential

  • Evidence of working in a person-centred way

  Desirable

  • Evidence of working in line with our Trust values

  Person Specification

  Qualification

  Essential

  • OT Diploma or Degree

  Experience

  Essential

  • Understanding of Groupwork skills

  Desirable

  • Experience in acute inpatient mental health setting

  skills

  Essential

  • Evidence of working in a person-centred way

  Desirable

  • Evidence of working in line with our Trust values

  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 (opens in a new window).

  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 (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

  Address

  Priority House, Maidstone

  Hermitage Lane

  Maidstone, Kent

  ME16 9PH

  
  

  Employer's website

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

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

  Address

  Priority House, Maidstone

  Hermitage Lane

  Maidstone, Kent

  ME16 9PH

  
  

  Employer's website

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

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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