Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS healthcare provider in the United Kingdom seeks a Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist. This role involves providing occupational therapy assessments and interventions in a secure environment. Candidates should have a degree in Occupational Therapy and HCPC registration with extensive clinical experience. The position emphasizes establishing community links for effective patient transitions post-release. This opportunity blends clinical expertise with a commitment to improving lives, offering a challenging yet fulfilling work environment.

Qualifications

• Registered Occupational Therapist with extensive experience as a clinical OT.
• Extensive clinical experience including individual and group work reflecting social inclusion.
• Must have in-depth knowledge of OT assessment and interventions for the service user group.

Responsibilities

• Manage a complex clinical caseload that varies in size depending on client need.
• Work as a member of the multi-professional team to support NHSE&I safe staffing initiative.
• Provide OT specific assessment and intervention, both via groups and individual work.
• Lead on service development and participate in quality improvement activities.
• Establish strong links with the community to promote seamless transfer of care.

Skills

Ability to establish rapport with difficult to engage service users

Risk assessment and management skills

Ability to build effective working relationships

Education

Degree in Occupational Therapy (or equivalent)

HCPC Registration

Post qualification training to MSc or equivalent experience

Job description

Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?

This is an excellent opportunity for a Registered 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. In this impactful role, you'll be at the forefront of rehabilitation, directly influencing health outcomes. Your guidance and oversight will play a crucial role in the health and recovery of individuals following their release from prison.

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: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post**

Main duties of the job

As a Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist at HMP The Verne you will be providing occupational therapy assessments, treatments and interventions to individuals and also in group sessions.

Your role will be crucial to helping patients prepare for their release from prison, focusing on developing and maintaining their daily living skills to enable them to reach their full potential in areas of self care, leisure and work.

You will be working within a multi disciplinary team and manage a complex clinical caseload. You will be required to establish strong links with the community to promote seamless transfer of care for service users upon their release.

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

• Manage a complex clinical caseload that varies in size depending on client need.
• Work as a member of the multi-professional team and proactively support the NHSE&I safe staffing initiative.
• Lead on the development of evidence-based OT practice
• Provide OT specific assessment and intervention, both via groups & individual work related to self- care, work and leisure.
• Establish strong links with the community so to promote seamless transfer of care for service users.
• Lead on service development
• Lead and participate in /audit/quality improvement activities
• Contribute to and carry out risk assessment and management plans, to support meaningful and risk managed engagement in the prison.
• Provide specialist OT advice to the multi-professional team
• Work independently without direct supervision
• Be an OT specialist and have in-depth knowledge of OT assessment and interventions for the service user group
• Actively lead on promoting co-production and peer mentor work opportunities within the healthcare service and wider community.
• Contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust wide OT service
• Work within the social inclusion and recovery agenda

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.

In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be soughtfrom: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).

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

• Degree in Occupational Therapy (or equivalent)
• HCPC Registration
• Post qualification training to Msc or equivalent experience

Experience

• Extensive experience as a clinical OT
• Extensive clinical experience including individual and group work reflecting social inclusion

Skills

• Ability to establish rapport with difficult to engage service users
• Risk assessment and management skills
• Ability to build effective working relationships

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.