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, ho...