Lead Occupational Therapist and Wellbeing Centre Manager
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 25/08/2026
- Closes
- 01/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves leading the Occupational Therapy provision at HMP Pentonville, supporting men with mental health problems and neuro-developmental needs. The post holder will manage the Wellbeing Centre, conduct OT assessments, and provide individual and group therapy sessions. They will work closely with a multi-disciplinary team, focusing on functional daily living skills and risk management within a prison setting. The role also includes input into the prison's neuro-diversity pathway.
Essential criteria
- Recognised degree or equivalent qualification in Occupational Therapy
- Health and Care Professions Council registration.
- Highly developed communication skills (written and verbal), with the ability to explain complex functional/sensory needs and recommendations clearly to service users, carers and professionals.
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate training/courses relevant to autism, sensory integration/sensory processing, mental health, or neurodevelopment.
- Advanced clinical reasoning and decision-making skills, including the ability to assess, prioritise and manage risk within a specialist assessment pathway.
- Ability to produce high-quality written assessment outputs and practical recommendations suitable for implementation by multi-disciplinary teams.
- Clear evidence to demonstrate specialist experience and clinical skills for working with autistic people
- Knowledge of Autism Diagnostic Interview Revised (ADIR).
- Specialist knowledge of autism-informed practice and reasonable adjustments, including how sensory/environmental factors can impact distress, engagement and participation
- Experience of completing functional assessments.
- Experience of teaching and training others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within professional settings.
- Experience in developing online workshops and digital materials for families and carers
- Recognised degree or equivalent qualification in Occupational Therapy
- Health and Care Professions Council registration.
- Highly developed communication skills (written and verbal), with the ability to explain complex functional/sensory needs and recommendations clearly to service users, carers and professionals.
- Postgraduate training/courses relevant to autism, sensory integration/sensory processing, mental health, or neurodevelopment.
- Advanced clinical reasoning and decision-making skills, including the ability to assess, prioritise and manage risk within a specialist assessment pathway.
- Ability to produce high-quality written assessment outputs and practical recommendations suitable for implementation by multi-disciplinary teams.
- Clear evidence to demonstrate specialist experience and clinical skills for working with autistic people
- Knowledge of Autism Diagnostic Interview Revised (ADIR).
- Specialist knowledge of autism-informed practice and reasonable adjustments, including how sensory/environmental factors can impact distress, engagement and participation
- Experience of completing functional assessments.
- Experience of teaching and training others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within professional settings.
- Experience in developing online workshops and digital materials for families and carers
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £58,133 – £65,261 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 6d ago · Closes in 2d
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Job summary
The post will involve leading on the delivery and implementation of the OT provision across the prison. This post is based within the Mental Health team and Therapies service at HMP Pentonville to provide support to the prison establishment for the management and treatment of men (aged 18+) with varying levels of mental health problems and neuro-developmental needs.The OT provision to a designated caseload, focusing on functional daily living skills and specific mental health and risk issues. This will include overseeing and reviewing the OT referrals process as well as the assessment, treatment and evaluation of clinical interventions, planning and running a range of therapeutic individual and group work, carrying out functional assessments and contributing to multidisciplinary team care planning and risk assessment. The patients are people with diverse needs and presentations, often with emerging mental health difficulties, including personality disorder and can exhibit impulsive behaviour. The post will also include providing consultation and input (including assessment and intervention) to the prison neuro-diversity pathway, working with men presenting with a learning disability, ASD, ADHD and/or acquired brain injury.
The post holder will work closely with the Multi-Disciplinary Team and relevant outside agencies, as well as with OT colleagues in other establ
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