Senior Occupational Therapist

at  Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust (NHFT) is contracted to provide the award-winning Inspires Service, in partnership with HMP and HMYOI Swinfen Hall, which holds male prisoners aged 18-28 years old, serving long sentences (4 years and over). The Inspires Service is part of the National Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway and works collaboratively with the prison to deliver a residential assessment and treatment service, Delta Enabling Environment (DEE), an outreach treatment service, a Psychologically Informed Planned Environment (PIPE) and Enhanced Support Service (ESS) for prisoners with personality difficulties. The service is not driven by diagnosis, but recognises the impact of trauma, deprivation, disempowerment and adverse childhood experiences in the development of persistent patterns of problematic relationships and behaviours. The service offers assessment, formulation, psychological/psycho-social and occupational interventions, developing an enabling and psychologically informed environment and delivering training and case consultation. We work in partnership with other agencies and our service-users to deliver an integrated service with the aim of reducing risk of reoffending and improving psychological well being.
Full time or part time hours considered.
The role of Lead Occupational Therapist (OT) will primarily be based within the DEE assessment and treatment team working with both service users who are engaged in the residential service and those who are working with the outreach service. The lead OT will be expected to work as an independent practitioner within a multi-disciplinary team comprising of clinicians (psychologists, creative therapists and psychological practitioners) and Prison Officers and to contribute an OT perspective to the management of the service as well as the 40 individual service users. The post holder will have an overview of service users and hold a caseload for complex individuals with complex OT & Sensory needs. These will inform both group and individual treatment plans. They will attend the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings to support the team in identifying OT needs, focusing on functional daily living skills and issues related to service users offending behaviours and relational difficulties and provide reports and feedback as required to evidence service user needs and progress.
As a health and wellbeing organisation here at team NHFT we are dedicated to continually innovate and strive to make a difference to our community and those working for our Trust, we aim to serve the people of Northamptonshire and surrounding areas with safe, quality care . We deliver this from an understanding of our local healthcare needs, economy and the changing demands of our community.
Our mission , making a difference for you, with you was chosen by our staff and stakeholders. It means in everything we do and through every service we provide, we want to make a positive difference in people’s lives – for those we care for , those we work with and those who work with us . Everyone is part of our team.
Our core strategy is to be an employer of choice , a great place to work and be known for a diverse and inclusive culture whose staff feel valued . We provide a range of NHS services including physical, mental health and specialty services provided in hospital settings and out in the community within schools, GP clinics and patients own homes.
In addition the Lead OT role will include overseeing and developing the Occupational Therapy pathway and implementing policy and service development of specialist sensory integration (using our sensory room) for Inspires HMP Swinfen Hall. This will include specialist assessments, delivery of a range of interventions and evaluation of occupational interventions for the Inspires team. The Lead OT will also be responsible for leading the OT team, currently 2 band 4 OT technicians, developing their skills and providing supervision.
The post holder will lead the team in developing OT Information resources and ongoing research and development. They will take a lead on the design, implementation, and evaluation of the Inspires therapeutic group work & Individual programme.
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document

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