This senior post places an experienced occupational therapist within the multi-disciplinary care team at Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. The core of the work is managing a caseload of people with complex needs, forming occupational formulations, and planning, delivering and adjusting recovery-focused interventions. The role also carries clinical leadership, including supervising junior staff and students and leading approved quality improvement projects. HCPC registration is required, along with a full UK driving licence and access to a car for business use.
What the job involves
- Provide the occupational therapy contribution within the multi-disciplinary service, in line with service user needs and service requirements
- Assess, plan, deliver and evaluate therapeutic interventions for identified service users
- Manage a defined caseload of service users with occupational needs, using evidence-based, recovery-focused practice
- Manage a caseload of service users with complex needs
- Supervise designated junior staff and students
- Analyse assessment information to form a formulation of function, strengths, capabilities and occupational needs
- Work with service users, staff and carers to agree goals and deliver intervention or recovery plans that balance risk, choice and independence
- Monitor, evaluate and modify interventions to measure progress and improve outcomes
- Act as an experienced clinician supporting best practice in line with NICE guidance and professional standards, at an increasingly complex level
- Demonstrate clinical leadership through dedicated projects and approved quality improvement initiatives
- Promote occupational therapy in the service and keep an occupational focus at the centre of practice
- Balance competing demands and remain flexible and responsive
Qualifications
- Recognised occupational therapy professional qualification
Registration & licences
- HCPC registration
Skills & knowledge
- Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
- Ability to make decisions and work co-operatively in an inter-professional team
- Ability to prioritise own work and guide others
- Supervisory and appraisal skills
Checks & eligibility
- Full, valid UK driving licence and access to a car for business use, unless disabled as defined by the Equality Act 2010
Nice to have
- Knowledge of relevant OT theoretical models and approaches for the service user group
- Experience in clinical practice across a range of settings
- Involvement in service developments or audits
- Ability to use Teams, email, BI, RIO and internet resources
- Experience of supervising OT students, junior staff and group supervision
- Understanding of national and local healthcare policy and its implications for clinical practice
- Experience of using outcome measures and data to demonstrate efficacy to an MDT
What’s offered
- Opportunity to work autonomously and advocate for the profession
- Opportunity to develop own specialist skill set
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
