Occupational Therapist

NHS; Bristol; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000

Job description

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.

This is an excellent opportunity for an Occupational Therapist to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient.

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 patient's 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.

This position isn't just a job; it's a chance to blend your clinical knowledge, personal skills and a commitment to delivering the highest standards of care in an environment that is as rewarding as it is challenging.

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: Due to service budget restrictions we are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

Main duties of the job

As an occupational therapist you will provide high quality services and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. At HMP Ashfield, we deliver a multidisciplinary integrated primary care service and operate a specialist practice-based clinical model of care.

You will manage your own clinical caseload of patients and provide assessments and interventions to your patient group. You will be working with service users to identify OT goals as part of their care plan, using specialist mental health and OT assessment tools and treatment techniques. You will plan, co-ordinate and implement service user led individual and group interventions, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals.

As a senior member of the team, you will supervise an occupational therapy assistant and be responsible for their supervision, PDR's, etc. You will also oversee any occupational therapy assistants.

You will be delivering high quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison, demonstrating robust expert clinical skills and providing evidence-based practice to those in prison.

About us

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 Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

Management responsibilities

• 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 policies 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.

Research

• 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.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ: All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.

You will need to provide:
Proof of right to work documentation
Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
Proof of address documentation
Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.

Address History: 5 years address history will be needed. 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy
• HCPC Registration

Experience

• Extensive experience as an OT
• Applying and interpreting standardised OT assessments, vocational interventions and extensive clinical experience
• Working within a prison or secure setting

Skills

• Ability to build rapport with difficult to engage service users
• Effective written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills
• Able to work autonomously

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.