Overview of the Post:
HMP Elmley is a Category B / C men’s prison located in Isle of
Sheppey, Kent.
HMP Swaleside is a Category B men’s prison located in Isle of
Sheppey, Kent.
The post holder will work across the two prisons with other multi-disciplinary professionals to develop and revise the therapeutic programme and activity plans as necessary to meet the needs of different offender groups.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities:
• Provide one to one/ group interventions and therapeutic programmes in: Inpatient Department
• In-call activity as required.
• Contribute to the development and delivery of holistic care plans.
• Participate in the service wide health promotion, education programme and activities.
• Work to support pre-release and continuing care plans.
• To manage a clinical caseload.
• To support the development of evidence-based OT practice.
• To contribute to service development.
• To participate in research/audit activities.
• To supervise the work of junior staff and students.
• Contribute to and carry out risk assessment and management plans.
• To provide specialist OT advice.
• To work independently without direct supervision.
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
Leadership:
• To exercise good personal time management, punctuality, and consistent reliable attendance.
• 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 areas.
• To regularly be responsible for the supervision and written assessment of OT students on fieldwork placement within the Trust.
• 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.
Clinical:
• To manage a caseload of offenders with complex mental health needs.
• 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 offenders in a variety of settings to provide the most effective assessment & interventions.
• To plan and implement offenders led individual and/or group interventions, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals.
• To ensure offenders health, social, cultural, and spiritual needs are always considered.
• To assess for and provide equipment to enhance independence in daily living skills for offenders with a physical disability in addition to their mental health needs.
• To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment 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 offenders and establish and evaluate appropriate treatment interventions.
• To identify appropriate and inappropriate referrals and prioritise workload.
• To manage effective discharge ensuring service users and all relevant agencies are given relevant information.
• To contribute to and carry out risk assessment and 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 actively contribute to service & policy review and implementation and 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 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.
• To contribute to the team’s clinical governance and quality agenda.
• To ensure practice is evidence based.
• To demonstrate understanding and application of national guidelines and legislation relating to mental health & social care provision.
• Observe and apply Health and Safety regulations.
• To always apply risk management procedures.
• To promote and facilitate offender involvement in own clinical area.
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 offenders, carers, and 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 ensure that up to date electronic and written records are maintained in accordance with Professional and Trust standards.
IMPORTANT PLEASE READ BEFORE APPLYING:
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 sought from: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).
Management responsibilities
• Own clinical caseload
• Supervision and appraisal of junior staff
• Supervision of Occupational Therapy students
• Personal Continuing Professional Development
This advert closes on Wednesday 30 Oct 2024
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