Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?
This is an excellent opportunity for a Registered Occupational Therapist to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient. In this impactful role, you'll be at the forefront of rehabilitation, directly influencing health outcomes. Your guidance and oversight will play a crucial role in the health and recovery of individuals following their release from prison.
Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patient’s future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.
This position isn’t just a job; it’s a chance to blend your clinical knowledge, personal skills and a commitment to delivering the highest standards of care in an environment that is as rewarding as it is challenging.
* Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post**
As a Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist at HMP The Verne you will be providing occupational therapy assessments, treatments and interventions to individuals and also in group sessions.
Your role will be crucial to helping patients prepare for their release from prison, focusing on developing and maintaining their daily living skills to enable them to reach their full potential in areas of self care, leisure and work.
You will be working within a multi disciplinary team and manage a complex clinical caseload. You will be required to establish strong links with the community to promote seamless transfer of care for service users upon their release.
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: Emma Nicholson Job title: Head of Healthcare Email address: emma.nicholson17@nhs.net #J-18808-Ljbffr