Occupational Therapist

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

An opportunity has arisen for an Occupational Therapist to join the Occupational Therapy team at HMP Pentonville. This role involves working with individuals with complex mental health issues, providing assessments, interventions, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to ensure comprehensive care. The successful candidate will have a relevant qualification and experience in mental health or forensic settings.

Qualifications

• Experience in forensics or mental health settings.
• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development.
• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Conduct assessments and interventions for clients.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams for coordinated care.
• Review service users' progress and modify treatment plans.

Skills

Communication

Problem Solving

Empathy

Teamwork

Education

Dip. COT or BSc OT

Registered with HCPC

Job description

The post holder will work as part of the Occupational therapy team which are an integral part of a large health and wellbeing team at HMP Pentonville. The team includes psychology and occupational therapy staff, speech and language therapist and substance misuse workers. The team contribute to the overall healthcare provision within the prison, working across the healthcare department to provide comprehensive OT input across the Inpatient ward, the Wellbeing Centre, neurodiversity unit and across the wider prison

The post holder will work within the mental health hub, a day service providing an Occupational therapy service to those with complex mental health problems, personality disorder, mood disorders, PTSD, trauma, and ADHD, as well as those on the autistic spectrum. The role will also have input to other elements of the healthcare services such as the inpatient unit, the in reach team and the health and wellbeing team.

Main duties of the job

• To carry out standardised assessments, interventions and provide detailed feedback to the therapies and multidisciplinary teams about clients' abilities, and also information about future plans and requirements for progress within a mixture of settings including but not limited to; the Wellbeing Centre, Neurodiversity unit, inpatient ward
• To actively contribute to the multidisciplinary team's risk assessment process and obtain agreement from the team before engaging service users in any activity that may require therapeutic risk taking.
• To work in collaboration with other members of the multidisciplinary team to provide a coordinated care package.
• To regularly review each service user's progress in order to evaluate the effectiveness of treatment interventions and modify treatment plans accordingly.
• To ensure that the OT package of care is being followed for all service users that postholder is responsible for including those of whom they supervise.
• To work in accordance with professional guidelines issued by the College of Occupational Therapy which are relevant to the field of Forensic Psychiatry.
• To be a self-directed practitioner, with effective time management skills, able to manage a varied caseload and demands around regular duties.
• To pursue own continuous professional development and to record this through a CPD portfolio.

About us

The partnership betweenBarnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH)andCamden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I)is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming theNorth London Mental Health Partnership.

In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Dip. COT or BSc OT
• Registered with HCPC
• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

• OT placement or post graduate clinical experience in forensics / mental health / prison settings
• Experience of group-work
• Experience of working in an MDT
• Experience of using electronic patient records
• Experience of carrying out functional assessments
• Experience of relating to people from a range of social and ethnic backgrounds
• Knowledge of developments in O.T. adult mental health, and prison settings
• Experience or knowledge of substance misuse and social issues
• An understanding of forensic issues
• Knowledge of O.T. models of practice, e.g. MOHO

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Working knowledge of the occupational therapy process
• Ability to apply and develop core OT Skills
• Willing to contribute towards OT service development
• A demonstrated ability to understand clinical needs of the forensic / offender client group
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Maintains professional standards of communication
• Ability to laterally think and problem solve.

PERSONAL QUALITIES

• Commitment to work as a proactive team member
• Empathy for people with mental health problems and passionate about service user involvement
• Aware of own limitations and needs and ability to seeks advice and support appropriately
• Ability to promote self and the service
• Professional manner
• Ability to tolerate busy and loud locked environments.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to be flexible and adaptable to manage fluctuating work demands.
• Effective use of supervision.
• Proactive use of continuous professional development opportunities
• An ability to articulate the role of Occupational Therapy role to those with limited previous experience of and understanding of the profession.
• Service user-centred approach.
• Resilience for working with those who express high levels of traumatic information and distress.

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.

£34,089 to £41,498 a yearPer annum, inclusive of Inner London HCAS