Senior Occupational Therapist

Job summary
Ready to elevate your clinical leadership? You will bridge the gap between complex client needs and innovative recovery plans.

We offer a space where you can work autonomously, advocate for your profession, and develop staff--all while evolving your own specialist skill set in a fast-paced, rewarding environment.

The senior occupational therapist is an experienced occupational therapist within the multi-disciplinary care team, bringing holistic, occupation and recovery focused perspectives to an exciting MDT.

Main duties of the job

• 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.
• To assess, plan, deliver and evaluate therapeutic interventions for identified service users.
• To 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.
• To provide supervision to designated junior staff and students.
• Demonstrates ability to work as a team member as well as autonomously.
• Managing a case load of service users who have complex needs.

About us
We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated 'Good' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.

Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.

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. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.

Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's working well together.

Take a look at our Occupational Therapist Video

Details
Date posted: 06 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 380-EK436-D
Job locations: Ash Eton, Ash Eton, Radnor Park Avenue, Folkestone, CT19 5HL, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

• Balancing all aspects of the job role.
• Being flexible and responsive to competing demands.
• Promoting Occupational Therapy in the service and keeping 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.
• To ensure assessment of service users and analyse and interpret information gained to form an accurate formulation of function, strengths, capabilities and occupational needs.
• To work collaboratively with service users, staff, and carers to identify goals to determine and deliver an appropriate intervention/recovery plan which maximises occupational engagement and performance whilst balancing risk, and promoting choice and independence.
• To monitor, evaluate and modify therapeutic interventions in order to measure progress and increase efficacy for the best possible service user outcomes and experience.
• To act as an experienced clinician supporting best practice in line with NICE guidance and professional standards
• To demonstrate clinical leadership skills through the management of dedicated projects and approved quality improvement initiatives

Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification

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).

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Registration with HCPC
• Recognised Occupational Therapist Professional Qualification
• Ability to work as a team member as well as autonomously

Desirable

• Knowledge in the application of relevant OT theoretical models, and approaches relevant to service user group.
• Experience in clinical practice, holding a range of experience within a variety of settings
• Experience of being involved in service developments or audits

Knowledge
Essential

• Ability to make decisions and work co-operatively as part of an inter-professional team
• Ability to prioritise own work effectively and to be able to guide others

Desirable

• Ability to use technology such as Teams, Email, BI and RIO
• Experience of supervisory practices including OT students, junior staff, and group supervisions

Knowledge
Essential

• Ability to make decisions and work co-operatively as part of an inter-professional team
• Supervisory and appraisal skills
• Ability to prioritise own work effectively and to be able to guide others

Desirable

• An understanding of the broad aims of current national and local healthcare policy and an appreciation of the implications of this on clinical practice
• Computer literate. Able to use e-mail, Teams and RIO, and to access Internet resources
• Experience of use of outcome measures and data to demonstrate efficacy to an MDT

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 and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
Address: Ash Eton, Ash Eton, Radnor Park Avenue, Folkestone, CT19 5HL, United Kingdom
Employer's website: (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Deputy Head of Allied Health Professionals, Dan Brunetti, View email address on meeveem.com, View phone number on meeveem.com

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.