Occupational Therapist - Prison

☞ South Gloucestershire Council

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Update day: 15-05-2024

Location: Yate South West

Category: Health / Medical Care Part-time

Industry: Government Administration

Position: Entry level

Job type: Part-time

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How You’ll Make a Difference

As an Occupational Therapist you will make a difference by working with adults who may require social care services whist in prison. You will assess their social care, functional and health needs and work with them to create a support plan, aimed at promoting their independence and meeting their goals in order for them to manage the requirements of daily life.

There are three prisons in South Gloucestershire – HMP Leyhill, HMP Ashfield, and HMP Eastwood Park. HMP Leyhill and HMP Serco Ashfield accommodate male prisoners transferred from other prisons. HMP Eastwood Park is a female prison with generally a younger population with a wide range of complex needs including substance misuse and mental health needs.

What will you be doing?
  • This is an essential role within Adult Social Care, where you will be responsible for carrying out the assessments needs and providing advice and guidance to our service users. You will liaise and work closely with contacts from different sectors, including prison, probation, health and the voluntary sector, working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring that communication is effective, and that knowledge and best practice are shared.
  • You will review and monitor care plans and the quality of service provision and respond to changes need. This includes, develop, and evaluate reablement programs as part of care packages ensuring that programs to support independence are implemented.
  • You will be responsible for managing your own caseloads or specific projects to ensure specialist inputs are obtained and effective outcomes achieved.
  • You will raise awareness of a range of care issues and their implications and carry out risk assessments and complete safe methods of work practice guides, in order to ensure that needs are assessed, and appropriate action is taken.

What We Need From You
  • It is essential that you hold a professional Occupational Therapy qualification and any further advanced training and are HCPC registered.
  • You must be able to work with the range of professionals based within the prisons and work dynamically often in a challenging environment.
  • You will have interpersonal skills, be able to carry out assessments and communicate findings and risks to service users, families and other professionals.
  • You will demonstrate knowledge of relevant legislation, regulations, and codes of practice, processes and procedures.
  • You will be able to demonstrate that you can manage complex cases and that you can apply excellent assessment skills in practice.
  • Due to the nature of this role and the settings you will be working in you will need to work under tight security rules. You will be required to complete enhanced security vetting and undertake specific training, under the continued support and supervision of the Resilience Service Team Manager.

Please note that due to the nature of this role it is a requirement of employment that an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is obtained for this post .

How a Career At South Gloucestershire Council Is Different

We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and developmentoffer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.

If you want to develop a specialism, you’ll get the support you need and your cases will be aligned with your areas of expertise.

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.
  • We’re building and shaping communities which people are proud of
  • We’re working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life.
  • We’re investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential. 

We’ve achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

We’re making a difference, be a part of it!

Part time hours may be considered at 22.5 hours per week, salary pro-rata.

For more information please contact Naomi Kelly, [email protected]
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Deadline: 29-06-2024

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