Occupational Therapist

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Milton Keynes seeks an independent Occupational Therapist to support male prisoners with mental health needs. The role involves delivering tailored therapy, collaborating with a multidisciplinary team, and enhancing service users' recovery goals. Applicants must have appropriate UK professional registration and experience in a similar setting. This position offers an opportunity to contribute to meaningful change in a challenging environment.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Supportive working environment

Qualifications

• Registered Occupational Therapist with appropriate UK professional registration.
• Experience working with imprisoned individuals requiring mental health support.
• Ability to conduct individual and group therapeutic interventions.

Responsibilities

• Provide evidence-based occupational therapy assessments for prisoners.
• Lead the implementation of tailored occupational therapy programs within the Mental Health Day Unit.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to develop care plans.

Skills

Occupational therapy

Clinical reasoning skills

Team collaboration

Knowledge of mental health conditions

Education

UK professional registration

Job description

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Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Reference:

8360a5734320

Job Views:

6

Posted:

01.08.2025

Expiry Date:

15.09.2025

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Job overview

To work as an independent OT practitioner with men in prison presenting with complex and challenging needs who attend the Mental Health Day Unit.

To work within a multi-disciplinary team to provide a comprehensive service to men presenting with challenging behaviour and traits and/or diagnosis of Personality Disorder.

To lead on the planning, delivery and implementation of Occupational Therapy provision for the Mental Health Day Unit.

To lead on establishing sensory provision for prisoners. Providing evidenced based sensory assessments and regulation interventions for service users. Liaising with ND managers and practitioners, providing recommendations to for adaptations with the prison.

To apply a high level of understanding of the impact of mental and physical health conditions; providing training and advice on lifestyle changes & adaptation

To work with the Professional Lead to continue to develop and deliver and design a comprehensive OT Service including assessment, intervention and evaluation which is underpinned by an evidence base and personal recovery principles.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Main duties of the job

To provide specialist, culturally appropriate, evidence based occupationaltherapy assessments for individuals within the prison setting in order to establish and meet their occupational needs.

To apply evidenced based sensory assessments to determine sensory needs of service users.

To facilitate sensory regulation interventions for service users and provide recommendations for prison staff to support.

To provide sensory awareness training to clinical and operational staff to develop knowledge and understanding of sensory needs within HMP Woodhill.

To embed an Occupational Therapy service within HMP Woodhill, increasing understanding of the purpose of OT provision for service users in prison.

To select and use validated standardised assessment tools routinely and in practice, exhibiting clinical reasoning skills; to include the Model of Human Occupation (MOHO) assessments.

To apply clinical knowledge and skills to carry out evidence based occupational therapy interventions, both individual and in groups, which are underpinned by relevant theoretical approaches.

Working for our organisation

We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.

Providingtop quality caredepends on our ability to employ the best people.
We’re always looking torecruit outstanding peoplewho will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.

With adiverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more – whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To plan, implement and review individually tailored programmes of intervention using individual and group work approaches with prisoners within Mental Health Day Unit.

To support service users and colleagues to ensure that care plans are developed in partnership with the individual and that they reflect ‘recovery goals’. These should be strengths-based and oriented towards reinforcing a positive identity and developing valued social roles.

To monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of occupational therapy interventions against clear aims, objectives and outcome measures in line with evidence based practice and in conjunction with service users, carers and other professionals.

To work collaboratively with all professionals within the Mental Health Day unit in developing care plans and risk assessments for prisoners.

To support individuals to develop skills and knowledge; and engage with community partner agencies, to facilitate successful transitions from the prison environment to the community.

To proactively undertake and ensure rigorous risk assessment & risk management strategies are applied. To ensure maximum ‘risk tolerance’ facilitates the individual’s recovery, in line with risk policies and local guidelines.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.