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Hi I am having discussions with managers of my local community forensic team about the banding of the OT post within the Team. If any of you are working in a...
Hi Debs I used to work in a Forensic CMHT. I was a band 6 and I was full time. There were no support workers at that time but it was in the pipeline. I worked...
Hi Debs, I am a band 7 team leader for the OT service that covers two low secure/rehab wards both with a band 6 ot on each and my role is split between...
Hi Kathryn, I used to run a 'Creative Expression Group' in a mental health resource centre. I used different types of creative therapies (mainly drama and team...
Hi Sue, I work in a low secure unit and the obesity problem is just as great. We too are setting up well being support groups, hoping to combine resources from...
Hi! I'm currently doing my dissertation on OT in prisons and the impact prisons have on occupational performance. During some long research searches, I've...
Welcome to the site and great to have interest in the NFOT conference. Its would be good if you could attend and present your research as it sounds clinically...
Hi there I was wondering whether any of the unit gyms have a punch bag? Our unit has a broken one and there is some debate about whether it should be replaced....
Hi, when I had a placement in Rampton (high secure hosp.), I think they may have had a punch bag in their gym. the gym could be use by both patients and...
CJ If the punch bag in the gym is being used to improve physical fitness and is seen as a piece of exercise equipment then I do not see any issues with it. ...
Yas
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May 8, 2008 10:58 am
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Hi Elana We have a punch bag in our gym and this has caused several debates between professions about the use of it and how therapeutic it really is, including...
Hi there yes we have a punch bag at cygnet, although we are jsut replacing it as it gets some wear. We've never had any problems in the last 3 years with it...
Hi, I have just taken a full time band 6 post at a forensic unit and I am in the process of reviewing the women's OT service. We have three women's wards, a...
Hi Please see book info below regarding working with women in secure settings; Working therapeutically with women in secure mental health settings. Editor:...
Baxter, Claire
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May 14, 2008 2:06 pm
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Dear All I work in a new MSU with an LSU/Step-down units for woman with the primary diagnosis of learning disabilities. I am attempting to compile a training...
Hi, What you're planning sounds really interesting. Unfortunatly I do not have any specific references, but some pointers. LilLets do quite a few good...
Hi, I am a new member and I would appreciate some advice please!!! I am working in a new purpose built adoloscent forensic service (medium security). One of...
Try googling 'the sensory project' The site has links to all sorts of useful things and the OT who runs it is a mine of incredibly useful information. She...
Hi All Im currently working in a MSU for Rehab ward, we got people who expressed their interest to pursue work in the future. How do others get involved in...
Hi Jen, In Manchester and Birmingham Forensic services First Steps Trust services provide work role services for in-patients. They do have a website and...
Hi, I work in the birmingham forensic services that use First Step Trust, i work in the CAMH service with young people but we are attached to a womens service....
sorry, also completely forgot i wanted to mention that in our school for the young people they offer a course which is again certificated after taking an exam...
Hi For those of you working in a forensic setting in the south east, please see the attached itinery and directions for the next forensic OT meeting on...
Hi Jackie and Maddy seems like First Step Trust is most widely used services for work preparation, will check this one,thanks the course you have maddy sound...
hi, the prep for working life course is a national course so there may be oppoertunity for linking in with local colleges, it is quite low level and i think...
Hi Elana, I used to work in a high secure setting and we came across this issue on the male PD ward. The patients had requested it and although the team...
