Lead Occupational Therapist and Wellbeing Centre Manager

Role Overview

The post will involve leading on the delivery and implementation of the OT provision across the prison. This post is based within the Mental Health team and Therapies service at HMP Pentonville to provide support to the prison establishment for the management and treatment of men (aged 18+) with varying levels of mental health problems and neuro-developmental needs. The OT provision to a designated caseload, focusing on functional daily living skills and specific mental health and risk issues. This will include overseeing and reviewing the OT referrals process as well as the assessment, treatment and evaluation of clinical interventions, planning and running a range of therapeutic individual and group work, carrying out functional assessments and contributing to multidisciplinary team care planning and risk assessment. The patients are people with diverse needs and presentations, often with emerging mental health difficulties, including personality disorder and can exhibit impulsive behaviour. The post will also include providing consultation and input (including assessment and intervention) to the prison neuro-diversity pathway, working with men presenting with a learning disability, ASD, ADHD and/or acquired brain injury.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Multi-Disciplinary Team and relevant outside agencies, as well as with OT colleagues in other establishments to provide a quality service, which is responsive to clients’ needs.
• Daily management of the Wellbeing Centre environment and processes, including risk assessment, timetable and service provision.
• Be responsible for the Occupational Therapy assessment, treatment and evaluation of an allocated clinical caseload, and in compliance with New Models of Care as Occupational Therapy Lead.
• Be responsible for planning and providing group and individual assessment and treatment sessions within the service, working with the team Psychologists and Speech and Language Therapist.
• Carry out standardised assessments and provide detailed feedback to the multidisciplinary team about clients’ abilities and also information about future plans and requirements for progress.
• Communicate treatment plans and clinical reasoning for interventions to other members of the multidisciplinary team and to work in collaboration with other disciplines and staff in clinical work.
• Plan, run and evaluate treatment sessions on a group or individual basis, using graded activities to achieve treatment aims.