Occupational Therapist, Downview, Band 5-6 Development Post

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is a Top Employer Award Winner and works in partnership to provide responsive and dependable primary care, mental health, intellectual disability and substance misuse services to the diverse and culturally rich communities we serve.
In our quest to deliver patient-focused, quality care we are looking to recruit a highly motivated, innovative and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join our forward thinking, friendly and expanding Health & Justice teams within HMP Downview.
By joining our Prisons Health Care Teams, you will have a real impact on promoting health and well-being of those in custody. As an Occupational therapist you will provide a valued and uniquely contribute to a multi-disciplined approach to care.
Our motto is ‘Caring not Judging’. By working in partnership with the criminal justice system and other agencies, we provide effective and responsive care for those who may have a history of offending and may be at risk of re-offending in the future. The opportunity of engagement in custody means we can enable people to improve their well-being, supporting better outcomes in the future.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
The post holder is based within HMP Downview Mental Health team. They will be responsible for delivering Occupational Therapy for female prisoners at HMP Downview. The post-holder will be responsible for providing evidenced based OT interventions and assessments for prisoners presenting with complex mental health and neurodevelopmental needs. This role will involve delivering individual and group rehabilitative skills based work for a designated caseload. This individual will provide functional ADL and sensory assessments that contribute to team care planning, recommendations for support needs and risk assessments.
The post holder will apply outcome measures and clinical audits to evaluate effectiveness of clinical interventions and contribute to service improvement. This post holder will also support National drivers and local need, applying co-production models to involve service users in delivery of OT provision. They will be committed to reducing occupational deprivation, working alongside partner agencies to improve service user access to meaningful therapeutic activity.
Sensory Integration training is funded as part of this position. Upon completion of training the post holder will support Neurodevelopmental pathways within Downview to complete sensory assessments and provide sensory recommendations to partner agencies and clinical teams.

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust offers its staff ongoing career progression through:

• Monthly supervision
• Annual personal development plans/appraisals
• Access to exciting internal and external training opportunities.

Excellent progression through various career pathway opportunities such as but not limited to:

• Preceptorship Programme
• Support and guidance with Re-validation
• Hidden Gem and annual award ceremonies

PG Cert in Sensory Integration training has been funded for successful applicants.
Excellent staff benefits, our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include:

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• Health and wellbeing services
• Season ticket loans
• Cycle to work scheme
• Relocation package

The trust also values its staff and you are entitled to become a member of MyTrustBenefits. MyTrustBenefits is an online portal for all CNWL staff, as well as their family and friends. It offers over 1400 discounts at hundreds of retailers nationwide. Save money on your weekly food shops, toiletries, cosmetics, cinema, meals out, holidays, travel and entertainment. You can also access free online courses on a variety of topics, professional and personal, ranging from business management, languages, law and teaching.
All of our sites in Surrey offer free use of the onsite leisure facilities and free parking for staff.
1. To contribute and provide recommendation within to multi disciplinary teams in joint care planning and risk assessments.
2. To provide specialist, culturally appropriate, evidence based occupational therapy assessments, intervention and evaluation for individuals within the prison setting in order to establish and meet their occupational needs.
3. To plan, implement and review individually tailored programmes of intervention using individual and group work approaches with prisoners.
4. To support individuals to develop skills and knowledge; and engage with community partner agencies, to facilitate successful transitions from the prison environment to the community.
5. To demonstrate excellent communication skills and form positive therapeutic relationships using warmth and empathy which enable service user empowerment.
6. To demonstrate skills and resourcefulness in communication when barriers to understanding are present, including interpreting resources

Please refer the Job description for details