Occupational Therapist

NHS
Part Time
Bristol
37338.00 - 44962.00 a year
Posted 5 days ago

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Job Description

Job summary

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're Fair
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 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.

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 ...

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