Job Description

The Band 6 Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist (OT) post in the Forensic Community Service is split across Mariposa House, the Women's Forensic Hostel and the wider Forensic Community Service, working alongside the Band 7 OT and the MDT in delivering skilled, needs led, client centred, recovery focused OT assessment and intervention, both in groups and individually. The post focuses on rehabilitating service users in the community, developing and maintaining their daily living skills, enabling them to reach their potential in the areas of self care, leisure and work, whilst taking a client centred, risk managed approach.



Key Task and Responsibilities



Provide OT specific assessment & interventions via groups & individual work related to self- care, work and leisure

Work as a member of the multi-professional team

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 provide OT advice to the multi-professional team

To work independently without direct supervision

Supervise the work of junior staff including OT students on clinical placement

Contribute to and carry out risk assessment and management plans

Provide OT assessment and interventions for the service user group

Contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust wide OT Service

Work within the social inclusion and recovery agenda

Actively lead on promoting co-production and peer mentor work opportunities within the forensic community service and wider community.

Contribute to and carry out risk assessment and management plans, to support meaningful and risk managed engagement in the community



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 area



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



To be responsible for maintaining stock & advising on resources required to carry out the job.



Clinical



To manage a caseload of service users with complex mental health needs



To work with service users to identify OT goals as part of the multidisciplinary care plan, using specialist mental health & OT assessment tools & treatment techniques



To work with service users in a variety of settings to provide the most effective assessment & interventions



To plan and implement service users led individual and/or group interventions, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals



To ensure service users health, social, cultural, and spiritual needs are always considered



Actively lead on promoting co-production and peer mentor work opportunities within the forensic community service and wider community.



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 service users 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 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 service users and carers, 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 promote an awareness of the OT role within the team, negotiating priorities where appropriate