Therapy Technician | Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust

The Forensic Mental Health services specialise in the assessment and treatment of offenders with mental health conditions. The medium secure inpatient service provides 66 inpatient beds for men and women.

We are keen to recruit an enthusiastic, Therapy Technician

to join the Occupational Therapy service. Occupational Therapy staff are recognised as essential, core members of the multi-disciplinary team.

The role will include working alongside the Occupational Therapy team to provide a range of groups and 1:1 interventions, as well as running the Lakeside Lounge Cafe, providing accredited qualifications for patients and supporting to provide interventions at the Willow Gardens animal and horticulture project.

Under the supervision of a registered Allied Health Professional and in consultation with professionally registered members of the Multidisciplinary Team the post holder will be expected to assist in the delivery of therapeutic interventions within the service by

• Using skills and experience to plan and provide flexible, service user centred, 1:1 or group activity based interventions that contribute to meeting the assessed needs of service users and treatment service as outlined within their care plan.
• Working alongside the multidisciplinary team to facilitate therapeutic

interventions for service users and carers

• Undertaking clinically related administration, and to assist with non-clinical tasks to ensure the smooth running of a service, to service users and their carers, guided by an appropriate senior colleague.

Thank you for considering a role at our 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. It’s why we have a bold vision, to create communities where mental health care helps people not just live with mental illness, but live well.

We look forward to welcoming your expertise to help us achieve our vision.

Responsibilities include

• To work effectively as a member of the MDT assisting in delivering individual or group interventions to promote the strengths, wellbeing and recovery of service users and carers.
• To monitor service users’ progress, reporting on their psychological,

physical, behavioural, occupational and social response to interventions.

• To adapt interventions ensuring that they support the service user and carer to meet their needs, including regard for cultural and linguistic differences, adjusting own approach accordingly.
• To assist with or contribute to the assessment of activities of daily living, maintaining service users’ dignity and privacy, observing changes both

positive and negative and reporting appropriately.

• To effectively establish a therapeutic relationship with service users and their relatives/carers.
• To contribute to and comply with individual, environmental and activityrelated risk assessments and to communicate issues around risk to others involved in service users care.
• To support and undertake community access /engagement for service users and carers.
• To assist with non-clinical tasks to ensure the smooth running of a service guided by an appropriate senior colleague.
• To attend and actively participate in relevant clinical meetings/forums.

This advert closes on Thursday 14 May 2026

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