Job overview
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 Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our forward thinking, friendly and expanding Health & Justice team at HMP Feltham B.
By joining our Prisons Health Care Team, you will not only look after the mental health needs of our patients residing in secure environments, but who also can have a real impact on promoting health and well-being. Our healthcare services work to a 7-day week working model, to ensure our patient's healthcare is always managed and maintained to the highest of standards.
Our motto is “Caring NOT Judging” so by working in partnership with the criminal justice system and other agencies, we provide responsive, dependable and high-quality primary care and mental health services to those who may have offended and those at risk of offending in the communities we serve, to improve their health status and to encourage social inclusion.
Why not see what our staff say about working within our award-winning teams:
Main duties of the job
This is a unique and exciting opportunity to be part of an innovative new model of care (NMOC), and to use all of your clinical and interpersonal abilities, develop new skills, and work with men who need and deserve high quality care.
Feltham B is now a Category C male adult prison and is currently aligning its services to the New Model of Care (NMOC). The NMOC is designed to promote patient safety and wellbeing from the point of reception into custody through to release, ensuring continuity of care, appropriate risk management, and seamless handover into the community or onward transfer to another establishment.
The NMOC is structured around four core teams (pillars):
1.Early Days in Custody (EDIC) – focusing on immediate health, mental health, and substance misuse needs at reception and during the early period in custody.
2.Planned Care (PlC) – delivering ongoing, structured care for patients with identified health, mental health, and substance misuse needs.
3.Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) – providing timely assessment and response to acute and urgent presentations.
4.Release and Transfer (RT) – ensuring safe, coordinated transition of care on release or transfer, with robust communication to community and receiving services.
This model supports a whole-pathway, patient-centred approach, underpinned by multidisciplinary working, clear governance, and shared accountability.
Working for our organisation
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust offers its staff ongoing career progression through:
1. Monthly supervision
2. Annual personal development plans/appraisals
3. Access to exciting internal and external training opportunities.
Excellent progression through various career pathway opportunities such as but not limited to:
4. Preceptorship Programme
5. Support and guidance with Revalidation
6. Hidden Gem and annual award ceremonies
Excellent staff benefits, our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include:
7. Health and wellbeing services
8. Season ticket loans
9. Cycle to work scheme
10. Relocation package *subject to meeting criteria*
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 our prison sites offer free use of the onsite leisure facilities and free parking for staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description for full list of duties and responsibilities.
The post holder will ideally have previous experience in relevant forensic mental health services. Experience working with service-users with additional neuro-developmental needs, such as Learning Disabilities (LD), ADHD, social communication and Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) would be beneficial to this role due to the diverse needs of the population.
In addition to contributing to the Occupational Therapy programme and assisting with the development of group provision within the wider prison, you will be expected to supervise students. You will also provide specialist OT assessments and interventions at the same time as offering advice and consultation within an MDT approach.
You could make a difference! This is a varied role working within a rich multidisciplinary team which affords us the benefit of being able to work in a truly holistic and responsive manner. It takes a very special, dedicated, resilient and caring clinician to provide care in such an intense, dynamic environment, and you will be joining like-minded exceptional healthcare professionals in a dedicated and supportive team.
Vaccination
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.
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