Position Overview
Are you a passionate and experienced Band 7 Occupational Therapist seeking a fresh and rewarding challenge? Or perhaps you're a Band 6 OT ready to take the next step in your career? If so, we'd love to hear from you! An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our multi-disciplinary team within a Psychologically Informed Planned Environment (PIPE).
The PIPE (Psychologically Informed Planned Environment) services at HMP Send form part of the national Womens Offender Personality Disorder Pathway. These services include a Progression PIPE, Preparation PIPE and PIPE outreach. The Progression PIPE is an Enabling Environment and since this was last awarded the Preparation service has been established.
We currently have an exciting vacancy for a committed and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist with experience of working within a secure environment. You will be working with women serving sentences or on remand, many of whom have experienced traumatic and disadvantaged backgrounds. You must have a desire to provide and develop high-quality services for women residing within the PIPE services and be well organised and motivated.
You’ll be part of a supportive, multidisciplinary team where reflective practice, relational working, and psychological safety are central to our approach. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a supportive and innovative environment, while developing your clinical and leadership skills.
Clinical Responsibilities
* Work as an independent OT practitioner with women presenting with complex & challenging needs who reside on the Psychologically Informed Planned Environment units, engaging in the PIPE Outreach service & those where referral to PIPE may be considered.
* Working within the MDT to provide a comprehensive service to women with personality disorder resident on the PIPE units & to contribute to ensuring the PIPE is a successful environment.
* Lead on the planning & delivery of enrichment activities & a therapeutic social setting & to an Enabling Environment as defined by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
* Work with the wider OPD Pathway to integrate careful selection of assessment tools & interventions with personal recovery principles which will engage individuals in activities & occupation, encouraging the development of 'surviving & thriving' skills & knowledge.
* Apply a high level of understanding of the impact of mental & physical health conditions; providing training & advice on lifestyle changes & adaptations.
* Work with the Clinical Lead to continue to develop & deliver a comprehensive OT Service within a preparation & progression PIPE, including assessment, intervention & evaluation which is underpinned by an evidence base & personal recovery principles.
* To provide specialist, culturally appropriate, evidence based occupational therapy assessments for individuals within the prison setting in order to establish and meet their occupational needs.
* To select and use validated standardised assessment tools routinely and in practice, exhibiting clinical reasoning skills; to include the Model of Human Occupation (MOHO) assessments.
* To apply clinical knowledge and skills to carry out evidence based occupational therapy interventions, both individual and in groups, which are underpinned by relevant theoretical approaches.
* To plan, implement and review individually tailored programmes of intervention using individual and group work approaches with prisoners within the PIPE unit.
* To support service users and colleagues to ensure that care plans are developed in partnership with the individual and that they reflect recovery goals. These should be strengths-based and oriented towards reinforcing a positive identity and developing valued social roles.
* To monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of occupational therapy interventions against clear aims, objectives and outcome measures in line with evidence based practice and in conjunction with service users, carers and other professionals.
* To work collaboratively with all professionals within the PIPE unit in developing care plans and risk assessments for prisoners.
* 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.
* To proactively undertake and ensure rigorous risk assessment & risk management strategies are applied. To ensure maximum risk tolerance facilitates the individuals recovery, in line with risk policies and local guidelines.
Benefits and Development
* Monthly supervision
* Annual personal development plans/appraisals
* Access to exciting internal and external training opportunities.
* Preceptorship Programme
* Support and guidance with Revalidation
* Hidden Gem and annual award ceremonies
* Health and wellbeing services
* Season ticket loans
* Cycle to work scheme
* Relocation package *subject to meeting criteria*
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Location
Woking, England, United Kingdom
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