North London NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Occupational Therapist
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Job Description
This post is based within the Mental Health team and Therapies service at HMP Wormwood Scrubs 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.
The post holder will 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.
HMP Wormwood Scrubs is a Category B remand establishment which holds up to 1200 inmates. The Therapy team consists of Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Speech and Language Therapists and various support staff.
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This OT role will include the assessment, treatment and evaluation of clinical interventions for service users within the wellbeing centre, inpatient unit, and wider prison, carrying out functional assessments and contributing to multidisciplinary team care planning and risk assessment.
The postholder will work alongside the Lead OT in developing and reviewing the Wellbeing Centre (Seacole Centre) programme to ensure that it meets the changing needs of the prison population. They will take a senior role in the provision of input into the therapeutic group work programme within the wellbeing centre, facilitating psycho-ed groups with members of the psychology team, overseeing the work of specialist sessional workers providing creative activities, and the development and running of OT specific groups along side the OT lead.
The postholder will have a keyworking role to a designated caseload and will take on a role as senior OT with a significant guiding and leading the daily work of the team. They will work closely with the Multi-Disciplinary Team and relevant outside agencies, as well as with OT colleagues to provide a quality service, which is responsive to client’s needs.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT)
NLFT is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
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Our Five-Year Strategy
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
Why NLFT?
- We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
- We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
- NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme.
- Excellent internal staff network.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Nina Milburn
- Job title: OT Lead
- Email address: nina.milburn3@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 02085883732
Application Requirements
Applicants must obtain prison vetting prior to starting this role. You must be in the country to attend prison vetting appointments.
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