Occupational Therapist - Prison Team
☞ South Gloucestershire Council
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Update day: 03-06-2024
Location: Yate South West
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Industry: Government Public Administration
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How you’ll make a difference
- 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 Senior Practitioner and Service Manager.
- You will need to have a full driver’s licence and have access to a vehicle.
From November 11th 2021, it is a legal requirement for staff working in CQC registered care homes to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, unless they have a valid medical exemption. Due to the nature of this role, we would ideally like candidates to be fully vaccinated, however this is not an essential criterion.
How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the safety and welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. Ensuring all our staff are given right skills, knowledge and support to recognise and respond effectively to potential abuse or neglect.
We recognise that our diverse teamof skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
- 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.
Deadline: 18-07-2024
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