Occupational Therapy Manager – Irish Prison Service, Dublin
The Occupational Therapy Service at the Irish Prison Service is a recently established national service.
A locum vacancy has arisen to cover maternity leave for an initial period of 6 months.
Working as part of a broad multi-disciplinary teams (MDT) across Cloverhill and Mountjoy prisons, as the Occupational Therapy Manager, you will be responsible for leading and delivering an occupational therapy service.
The service provides a bio-psycho-social, integrated, layered model of care as well as being strengths-based, recovery focused and balances this with the principles of Risk, Need and Responsivity (RNR).
The service accepts referrals for a broad range of mental health needs and provides individualised, evidence-based assessment and interventions with clients, which with excellent Continuing Professional Development opportunities.
The role will include, but is not limited to, holding and managing a clinical caseload, working alongside local prison services to deliver the highest quality intervention and will offer appropriate supervision and Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
Essential Qualifications and Competencies
Candidates must:
Hold a recognised qualification as an Occupational Therapist along with CORU registration.
A minimum of 5 years full time (or an aggregate of 5 years full time) post qualification clinical experience in a High Support / Dependency Unit in an acute setting (forensic or otherwise) or in secure settings (prison or hospital);
Have experience of carrying out audits and collecting outcomes to support service, design, development and delivery.
Experience of working with clients reflecting a wide range of clinical presentations with mental health needs and/or offence related needs.
Experience of completing detailed Occupational Therapy assessment, case formulation, risk management, intervention and evaluation in mental health role/setting.
Experience of/training in delivering evidence informed mental health interventions.
Capacity to work cooperatively as part of the Occupational Therapy team and other services.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Proficient computer skills
Permission to work in Ireland
For further information, please contact Brian Murray on +353 1 482 5421 / +353 87 222 6752 or email [email protected]