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Mental health together + Clinical lead

Employer
Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
Location
Dartford
Salary
£46,148 to £52,809 a year pa
Closing date
22 Oct 2024
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Profession
Mental health
Grade
Band 7
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
We are seeking a dynamic, creative, and enthusiastic Occupational therapist to join our leadership team at DGSCMHT.

You will provide clinical leadership on our care pathways within Mental health together + pathways

This will be achieved by providing supervision and specialist mental health advice and education to staff within the team. and offerclinical sessions offering short-term interventions based on psychological informed evidence based therapies and offer professional advice to client/patients and their carers, other professionals/ partners.

Main duties of the job

Being a key member of the leadership team you will support clinicians to provide timely and evidence based interventions.

Providing expertise in occupational therapy assessments/interventions and provide OT specialist support to the team (OT's and trainee OT's)

Developing working relationships with partner agencies and teams to ensure seamless progress of patients through the care pathways.

Supporting the leadership team in reviewing care across the services

Please see JD for more details

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 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 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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see Job description and personal specification for full details of duties and responsibilities

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of leading staff


Desirable

  • Manage a defined caseload of service users with occupational needs using evidence based, service user centred, health promotion and relapse prevention orientated principles and practice.


time

Essential

  • 3 years post registration experience in mental health


Desirable

  • Experience of being involved in service developments or audits


Registration and mentorship

Essential

  • Resgistered Occupational therapist


Desirable

  • Student mentorship


Employer details

Employer name

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Address

Arndale house

18-22 Spital Street

Dartford

DA1 1AD

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380-NK139

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