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
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Caroline Taylor Job title: Specialist Occupational Therapist Email address: caroline.taylor56@nhs.net Telephone number: 07733314359
Please contact Caroline Taylor if you want to visit the Forensic Community Service to find out more about the Band 6 OT position.
