Occupational Therapist - Prison Service

Occupational Therapist – Irish Prison Service, Dublin

The IPS Occupational Therapy Service is a recently established national service.

Working as part of a broad multi-disciplinary teams (MDT) across both Mountjoy and Cloverhill Prisons, as an Occupational Therapist, you will provide 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 for all staff members. 

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 Develop...