Occupational Therapist

As an Occupational Therapist you will work as part of the MDT at HMP Ashfield. You will manage your own clinical caseload of patients and provide assessments and interventions to your patient group. You will supervise an Occupational Therapy Assistant and oversee any OT students.

Key Task and Responsibilities
+ To manage a clinical caseload of prisoners
+ To work as a member of the healthcare team
+ To support the development of evidence based OT practice
+ To provide OT specific assessment & interventions via groups & individual work related to:
-Self care
-Work
-Leisure
+ To contribute to service development
+ To participate in research/audit activities
+ To supervise the work of OT students/OT Assistant
+ Contribute to and carry out risk assessment & risk management plans
+ To provide specialist OT advice to the MDT and Prison Service
+ To work independently without direct supervision
+ To attend a range of meetings as required., + To undertake effective support, guidance, supervision and appraisal of junior staff
+ To contribute to the induction, training and education of students [both OT & other professions] and other staff in clinical area
+ To regularly be responsible for the supervision and written assessment of OT students on fieldwork placement within the Trust
+ To exercise good personal time management, punctuality and consistent reliable attendance
+ To be responsible for maintaining stock & advising on resources required to carry out the job, possibly including the responsible management of petty cash.
Leadership
+ To ensure relevant national and local polices are implemented
+ To review and reflect on own practice and performance through effective use of professional and operational supervision and appraisal guided by KSF
+ To actively contribute to service & policy review and implementation
+ To participate in the operational planning, implementation, evaluation and audit of practice, clinical care pathways and protocols within own clinical area
+ To raise awareness of the OT service within own clinical area
+ To participate in the development of the OT service within own clinical area
+ To apply increasingly complex skills and knowledge in order to establish professional competence and fitness to practice as a Band 6 OT
+ To attend all relevant mandatory training as directed by the Trust
+ To contribute to CPD through participation in internal and external training and other development opportunities
+ To maintain and update a CPD portfolio

Clinical
+ To manage a small caseload of service users with complex mental health needs, taking on the role of care co-ordinator/vocational lead where relevant
+ To work with service users to identify OT goals as part of the multi-disciplinary care plan, using specialist mental health & OT assessment tools & treatment techniques
+ To work with service users in a variety of settings in order to provide the most effective assessment & interventions
+ To plan, co-ordinate & implement service user led individual and group interventions, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals.
+ To ensure service users health, social, cultural and spiritual needs are considered at all times
+ To assess for equipment to enhance independence in daily living skills for service users with a physical disability in addition to their mental health needs
+ To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress and identify outcomes
+ To plan and deliver services within the Care Programme Approach framework
+ To apply a high level of understanding of the effect of disability and provide training and advice on life skills to maximise functional ability
+ To assess the occupational needs of service users and establish and evaluate appropriate treatment interventions
+ To identify appropriate & inappropriate referrals and prioritise workload
+ To manage effective discharge ensuring service user and all relevant agencies are given relevant information
+ To contribute to and carry out risk assessment & risk management plans
+ To work as part of the MDT and attend all relevant clinical meetings
+ To ensure that up to date electronic and written records are maintained in accordance with Professional and Trust standards
+ To comply with the COT Code of Ethics and Professional conduct & HPC standards for registration
+ To adhere to Trust policies, procedures and guidelines
+ To adhere to any other relevant local and national policies and guidelines
+ To respect the individuality, values, cultural and religious diversity of service users and contribute to the provision of a service sensitive to these needs
+ To demonstrate the ability to reflect on ethical issues and to provide guidance to junior staff as necessary., In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants
If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.
If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.
As part of the South West Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are able to expand recruitment and are looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Occupational Therapist to join our friendly team at HMP Ashfield.
Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.
As part of our primary care team, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills., + To demonstrate the ability to critically evaluate current research and apply them to practice
+ To broaden research and development skills through participation in local audit and research projects.
Communication
+ To communicate appropriately with service users and carers, team members, OT colleagues and other agencies
+ To demonstrate effective communication skills with those who have difficulty with communication for any reason
+ To communicate effectively as required within job role using appropriate methods of communication
+ To promote an awareness of the OT role within the team, negotiating priorities where appropriate., Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.
Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.

Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
+ We're Kind
+ We're Fair
+ We Listen
+ We Care