Main area ICRAS Urgent Therapy Team - Community Division Grade Band 4 Contract Permanent: Rota will include shifts and weekend working. Hours Part time - 37.5 hours per week (5 x 7.5 shifts over 7 days) Job ref 350-CC6668850-B
Site ICRAS Urgent Care, Southport & Formby Town Southport Salary £26,530 - £29,114 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 17/02/2025 23:59
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
ICRAS (Integrated Reablement and Assessment Service) within Southport & Formby is a unique service providing a rapid responsive approach to support hospital admission avoidance and early hospital discharges from a care transfer hub persepective.
We’re looking for therapy assistants to join our multidisciplinary teams across Southport & Formby. If you’re motivated, with a therapy experience, a passion to be part this service, and share our aim for perfect care, we’d like to hear from you.
The role can involve working across ICRAS supporting our rehabilitation hubs, care transfer hub and community, which will enable you to develop skills and flourish within your career.
If this interests you, come and join our fantastic team.
We’re a very supportive team with advanced clinical practitioners, senior nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, therapy and health practitioner assistants.
Main duties of the job
Work collaboratively within the team and with other agencies to deliver therapeutic interventions to promote patients well being and functional independence.
Work within the skills and competencies expected of the role.
Be accountable for own clinical practice and personal development.
Deliver care in line with national quality standards and Trust policy.
Act as an advocate and champion for clients.
Lead on health promotion activities as required.
Undertake clinical tasks, following patient specific direction.
Communicate effectively with patients and carers recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating.
Participate in individual clinical supervision and appraisal.
Support the delivery/completion of audits within the team.
Undertake all relevant mandatory training.
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
1. Work collaboratively within the team and with other agencies to deliver local and national health priorities and objectives.
2. Accept clinical responsibility for a manageable caseload, where appropriate.
3. Be accountable for own clinical practice.
4. Deliver care in line with national quality standards and Trust policy.
5. Work within the skills and competencies expected of the role.
6. Provide clinical support and knowledge to support staff.
7. Act as an advocate and champion for clients.
8. Support clinical staff in managing long term conditions.
9. Organise and facilitate groups and /or individuals to develop self-care skills.
10. Identify the need for and initiate referrals to internal/external partners, within agreed parameters.
11. Develop ‘person specific goals’ with individuals, carers and colleagues.
12. Enable individuals to develop the necessary skills to improve own health and lifestyle.
13. Contribute to health needs assessment of a defined area of the population.
14. Undertake risk assessment on a defined patient population in line with relevant guidelines.
15. Lead on health promotion activities as required.
16. Undertake clinical tasks, following patient specific direction.
17. Communicate effectively with patients and carers recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating.
18. Provide leadership, mentorship and role modelling to support staff within the clinical team.
19. Participate in individual clinical supervision.
20. Participate in mentorship and clinical supervision with the team.
21. Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation policies and procedures.
22. Provide information as requested.
23. Participate in audit as required by the organisation.
24. Undertake the relevant foundation degree.
25. Undertake all relevant mandatory training.
26. Develop and maintain own knowledge and skills through the use of competency frameworks and continuous professional development (CPD) and personal development process (PDP).
27. The post holder shall as necessary provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues.
28. The post holder shall follow all the policies and procedures of the organisation.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Foundation Degree or equivalent or equivalent work based experience.
Experience
* Assessing, planning and implementing individualised programmes of care.
* Understanding local and national influences on health care delivery, including Public Health.
* Experience of previous work in health care.
* Clinical Governance and Risk Management.
* Actively Involved in professional development.
* Knowledge of Health Promotion strategies
* Knowledge of developing self care skills in patients/clients
Skills
* Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Other
* Ability to travel, for work purposes
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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.
Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
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 Greg Kulak Job title ICRAS Therapy Team Lead Email address grzegorz.kulak@merseycare.nhs.uk Telephone number 01704387262 Additional information
Greg Kulak - grzegorz.kulak@merseycare.nhs.uk
01704 387262
Please email Greg to make an appointment for an informal chat
FULFIL YOUR POTENTIAL AND SPREAD YOUR WINGS WITH MERSEY CARE
At Mersey Care, our commitment to ‘perfect care’ lies at the heart of everything we do, a person centred care that starts with you. It’s a pledge to create an environment and staff support that will enable you to do the best job you can possibly do, to be the best you can possibly be.
You’ll be joining one of the most innovative and progressive NHS trusts in the country. One that offers specialist inpatient and community services to support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. We are the founding member of the Zero Suicide Alliance, and one of only three Trusts in the country which delivers high secure mental health care.
You’ll be made to feel at home, joining an 11,000 strong Mersey Care family comprising doctors and nurses, as well as countless other roles from dieticians to dentists, from data analysts to physiotherapists. You'll find a full list of our roles in our A-Z list.
You’ll have a home in the North West of England where your work/life balance is respected and working from sites easily commutable from Liverpool, Manchester, North Wales and Cheshire with many roles operating a hybrid working system.
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