About this role
Job summary
Are you an Occupational Therapist looking for a role with a real difference?
We share a passion for providing high quality mental health care. You will help support and equip people with the life skills they may not have gained in earlier life and bring a much needed skillset. The prison environment is one of the most challenging, yet rewarding places to work. The role's variety will keep things fresh and stimulating whilst being part of a supportive team with effective management providing supervision/guidance.
Provision of a range of graded therapeutic interventions to support the service user in areas of emotion regulation, self-maintenance, productivity and leisure within the prison cluster across wellbeing, substance misuse and primary and secondary mental health.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected to work as part of the multi-disciplinary team and take responsibility for taking the role of care co-ordination of service users with highly complex and multiple needs. Assessment, interventions and procedures may be discussed in clinical supervision.
All aspects of the post may involve moderate physical and frequent mental effort with exposure to highly emotional circumstances. The post holder will be in a position to contribute to the development of services. The post holder may also be expected to work autonomously as the Occupational Therapist within the multi-disciplinary team.
About us
Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex.
We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health. We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation can provide.
We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can. We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are. Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support.
Our services are robustly governed, evidence-based, inclusive, and designed and provided in conjunction with service users. We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team!
For more about HMP Hewell and our incentives offer please see attached information.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description for the full list of duties and responsibilities.Here is a summary:
Lead the development, implementation and evaluation of group work to meet clients identified mental health and substance misuse needs.
To take responsibility for a clinical caseload. This will include caseload management and decisions on how to prioritise the workload involving clients with highly complex and multiple needs within a restrictive environment.
As a member of the multi-disciplinary team, to carry out assessments, profession specific/multi-disciplinary/multi-agency, including gathering complex information from clients and other members of the multi-disciplinary/multi-agency team. This includes the use of specialist standardised assessment tools, verbal and non-verbal communication skills and observation of the client and their environment. This also involves completion of highly complex risk assessments and other documentation.
To undertake the role of Care Co-ordinator for an identified number of clients on the caseload, some of whom may be on enhanced CPA with multiple and complex needs. Contribute to the delivery of CPA multi-disciplinary care plans.
To contribute to the overall care plan using effective Occupational Therapy treatment programmes and negotiate and communicate these with the client and other members of the treatment team. This will include the use of a highly developed clinical reasoning, practical and analytical skills, all of which are underpinned by advanced theoretical knowledge relevant to the specialism. Effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills will be used which demonstrate empathy and leadership appropriate to the management of the situation.
To recommend suitable adaptations to enable clients activities of daily living and to organise the implementation and maintenance of these.
To implement, evaluate, analyse and adjust treatment programmes according to individual needs, which are highly complex. The frequent use of encouragement, motivation, negotiation, reassurance and training skills as well as discussing with clients their progress will be essential.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Registered Occupational Therapist Evidence of recent CPD and Post graduate qualification or equivalent
Desirable
Relevant training / Qualification in associated field oCBT/CFT oSensory Integration oMotivational Interviewing oBrief solution focussed therapy oMapping techniques (ITEP/BTEI)
Experience Essential
Considerable experience of working in the mental health field Experience of providing specialist interventions for those with mental health problems, counselling techniques, CBT,CFT, Sensory integration, motivational interviewing Providing supervision and line management of staff.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Inclusion
Address HMP Hewell
Redditch
B97 6QS
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.mpft.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)