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Job overview
Due to significant investment in Occupational Therapy within Inpatient services in the Mental Health Care Division of Mersey Care, there are a range of exciting opportunities to work as a Specialist Occupational Therapist across Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens & Knowsley, and Halton and Warrington.
Posts are available across acute mental health and PICU wards at Clock View Hospital, Knowsley Resource and Recovery Centre, The Brooker Centre, and Windsor House. Additionally, there are opportunities to work in Older Adults Mental Health Wards at Hartley Hospital, Clock View Hospital, and Leigh Moss Hospital.
Occupational Therapy services provide comprehensive assessment and treatment of people during their admission to these wards, ensuring a focus on developing skills to improve occupational participation and performance, supporting reduced length of stay and sustained community living upon discharge.
Main duties of the job
To utilise and develop specialist knowledge providing professional, up to date interventions within a designated Occupational Therapy Services and to assist in the organisational development, co-ordination, and evaluation of the Occupational Therapy Service in conjunction with the Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist, Professional Lead for Occupational Therapy and relevant Team/Service Manager.
The post holder will contribute to an environment that works with local services to provide evidence-based assessment and delivery of care, using the Model of Human Occupation, and within the context of the effective patient journey. They will continue with their own professional development and assist with that of other Occupational Therapy staff. They will be required to have a flexible approach to working hours to ensure that the needs of their clients are met.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see job description for further information. In summary:
* Provide assessment and intervention for service users residing within the inpatient services in the Mental health care division.
* Experience of Service development and innovation.
* Experience in providing supervision and mentorship to others.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Professional qualification appropriate to role.
* Registration with HCPC.
* Post graduate training or equivalent experience.
* Clinical educator training.
Knowledge / Experience
* Experience of supervising staff.
* Evidence of working in clinical setting.
* Evidence of effective partnership working.
* Evidence of introducing service developments and innovation.
* Evidence of engaging in the development of others.
* Demonstrate the application of research and evidence-based practice within the specialist field.
* Demonstrate experience of problem-solving approaches.
* Understanding of local, national, professional guidance.
* Evidence in the understanding and application of leadership and management principles.
Skills
* Ability to delegate and coordinate.
* Ability to work to deadlines.
* Ability to utilise assessment skills and tools effectively.
* Able to deal with sensitive issues.
* Good organisational and management skills.
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email sensitive@dbs.gsi.gov.uk) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Hannah Davies Job title: Head of AHPS, Mental Health Care Division Email address: Hannah.Davies@merserycare.nhs.uk
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