Specialist Occupational Therapist- Forensic

3 weeks ago


Glasgow, United Kingdom NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde Full time

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and job roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over 1.15 million and a wider population of 2.2 million when our regional and national services are included.

The shift pattern is 2 days over 7 (15 hours) or 3 days over 7 (22 hours).

(Please note the salary is Pro Rata) for part time hours.

We are delighted to be advertising 1.0wte band 6 Forensic Occupational Therapy post within the AHP service for the Directorate of Forensic Mental Health & Learning Disabilities. The post is available as either a 1.0wte post, split between our innovative and highly motivated Low Secure Inpatient Service and Forensic Community Mental Health team. Alternatively the posts could be applied for individually as 0.6wte for our low secure inpatient OT post and 0.4wte for our FCMHT OT post. Please specify within your application which post option you would be interested in. We would be delighted to speak with you if you would like further information around the options of the post configuration or about the benefits of working within our dynamic Forensic AHP service.

The post holder will be an independent expert forensic practitioner managing a variety of conditions which are often complex and challenging and provide a specialist occupational therapy clinical lead within a designated area. This will involve specialist assessment, treatment and evaluation on the efficacy of service user care, both individually and in groups, whilst identifying physical, mental and behavioural and risk barriers. Standardised clinical tools based on the Model of Human Occupation will be utilised where the post holder has identified their appropriateness using specialist knowledge.

The post holder will provide specialist professional advice to other disciplines, carers and agencies. The post holder will be required to engage with the wider multi-disciplinary team and to work across agencies to deliver packages of care in the role of occupational therapist. They will require a good knowledge of Occupational Therapy input into risk assessment & risk management, offender behaviour work and psycho-social interventions. The post holder will contribute to the evaluation and development of the occupational therapy service within their designated area with reference to clinical governance, clinical effectiveness and national policies and drivers. This will require the post holder to lead on departmental and team projects. The post holder will be responsible for the day to day management of junior staff as part of supervision systems, including clinical workload and supervision of under and post graduate pre-registration students as required. The post holder will also be involved in the education of other staff and agencies.

Driving licence is essential for the FCMHT aspect of this post due to the wide geographical area covered across the whole of NHSGGC.

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