Clinical Occupational Therapist

at  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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 teams 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 localaudit 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 photographicID 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 Developmen

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