Occupational Therapy Assistant - HMP

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is the health provider for the delivery of an Integrated Mental Health Team (IMHT) at HMP Altcourse. The service is designed to support the holistic mental health needs of our client group in partnership with our Physical Health providers and Sodexo colleagues.

HMP Altcourse is a Category B, male only, local prison, in the Liverpool area.

The service aims to provide individual and group-based interventions based on the holistic needs of the population. These interventions will be individualised and trauma informed, alongside comprehensive risk assessment and management.

Core aims of the service are to improve mental and psychological wellbeing via a range of interventions, build the development of independent core skills, reduce risk, and advocate for mental health within the wider prison system.

The post holder will be joining a dedicated team of clinical staff from a range of backgrounds and experience. Team members have high levels of skill, passion and enthusiasm (and humour!) and are committed to ensuring the on-going successful development of the service and the opportunities it provides for our population.

Main duties of the job

We are now recruiting an Occupational Therapy Assistant to join our team. The successful candidate will work under the direct supervision of a qualified Occupational Therapist, to help deliver group and individual based intervention based on the holistic needs of the client.

Occupational Therapists use activity as a therapeutic tool to enhance engagement in meaningful and purposeful activity, develop skills and improve health and well-being.

The post holder should have an interest in working with people whom have mental health related needs, and complex clinical and risk presentations within a prison setting.

Within the IMHT, we prioritise the development of our staff team and have proven that we value and nurture diverse clinical interests. We are committed to creating an empowered staff team. We strive to be reflective and support of each other which is vital given the challenges this work can entail.

About us

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Employer details

Employer name

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

HMP Altcourse

Brookfield Drive

Liverpool

L9 7LH

Employer's website

https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

HMP Altcourse

Brookfield Drive

Liverpool

L9 7LH

Employer's website

https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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