Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist
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About the Role
As part of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) you will provide specialist assessment and intervention to offenders in prison. You will promote active engagement in meaningful occupations and facilitate the skills development and independence of patients. The postholder will work in collaboration with other healthcare professionals in prison in contributing to the development and delivery of safe, effective care, while also holding care co-ordination responsibility for a clinical caseload.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage a complex clinical caseload
- Work as a member of the multi-professional team and proactively support the NHSE&I safe staffing initiative
- Lead on the development of evidence-based OT practice
- Provide OT specific assessment & interventions via groups & individual work related to self- care, work and leisure
- Lead on service development
- Lead and participate in research/audit/quality improvement activities
- Supervise the work of junior staff including OT students on clinical placement
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About Oxleas
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.
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Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Kara Dunn
- Job title: Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist
- Email address: kara.dunn3@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 02085884497
Further contact numbers: 020 8588 4481
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