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.
Job overview
Due to an internal promotion, we have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic OT who has always wanted to work with children to join our team.
The paediatric therapy team works with children and young people aged from 0-19 who live in the St Helens and Knowsley areas and have difficulties with their fine motor skills, activities of daily living or sensory needs. We are a community team and work in a variety of locations, including special and mainstream schools, clinics, and patients' homes.
Main duties of the job
1. Work with individuals, families, carers, communities, special educational schools and other agencies to undertake a comprehensive assessment of routine/predictable patients/clients using clinical reasoning skills and a range of appropriate assessment techniques to provide an accurate diagnosis of their condition.
2. Formulate and deliver an individual treatment programme using assessment, reasoning skills and treatment skills based on a sound knowledge of evidence based practice and a range of treatment options.
3. Evaluate patient progress, reassess and alter treatment programmes using an accepted/appropriate range of techniques as required reporting back to senior clinician with regular support and advice from senior clinician.
4. Demonstrate the promotion of healthy lifestyle practices to the general public by the utilisation of their teaching skills.
5. Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
6. Work within own sphere of practice.
7. Be responsible for a designated area of work, as delegated by a senior clinician. Plan and organise efficiently and effectively patient/client caseload, and use of time for self.
8. Undertake self-directed/lone working in a variety of locations.
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
MANAGERIAL/LEADERSHIP (Including financial/physical resources and staffing):
1. Demonstrate leadership by means of effecting change within own sphere of practice when and where indicated.
2. Make recommendations to improve services.
3. Influence, motivate, support and enable others to contribute towards the effectiveness and success of KPIs.
4. Work autonomously with a defined workload prioritising own workload and ensuring effective time management strategies are embedded in own practice.
5. Manage resources to ensure they relate to the overall objectives and responsibilities of the team.
6. Undertake any other duties that might be considered appropriate by senior staff.
CLINICAL:
1. Implement care/intervention based on research and from any post registration course undertaken.
2. Be responsible for equipment used in carrying out clinical duties, ensuring competence to use the equipment and that of other practitioners using the equipment.
3. Provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers and other professionals to promote understanding of the aims of treatment and to ensure a consistent approach to patient care.
4. Provide professional clinical advice as appropriate.
CLINICAL GOVERNANCE/RESEARCH AUDIT:
1. Adhere to the appropriate Registrant Body code of Ethics and Professional Conduct and comply with local and national standards of practice.
2. Participate in policy and service development changes as directed.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of clinical governance and risk management and apply to own work situation.
4. Identify and minimise clinical and non-clinical risk to minimise risk of harm to patients, staff & visitors.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Professional qualification appropriate to role.
* Registration with relevant Registering Body e.g. HPC.
Experience/Knowledge
* Experience of working with clients/patients in a variety of settings/situations.
* Evidence of working within a person centred framework.
* The ability to demonstrate the use of evidence based practice.
* Experience of working in a paediatric setting.
* Knowledge of a range of common paediatric health conditions.
* Exposure to local, National, professional policies/guidance eg Mental Capacity Act Vulnerable Adults Procedure and safeguarding children.
* Awareness of own scope of practice and that of others.
* Ability to demonstrate a good level of knowledge and skills within a paediatric setting.
Values
* Accountability.
* Support.
* High professional standards.
* Responsive to service users.
* Engaging leadership style.
* Transparency and honesty.
* Discreet.
* Change oriented.
Skills
* Ability to work to deadlines.
* Ability to utilise assessment skills and tools effectively.
* Able to present factual information and refer questions to others where appropriate.
* Able to deal with sensitive issues with tact and diplomacy.
* Able to develop effective interpersonal relationships with clients, colleagues and the wider team.
* Good organisational/time management skills.
* Ability to problem solve.
* Ability to identify risk and minimise risk effectively.
* Ability to reflect on experience and identify lessons learnt.
#J-18808-Ljbffr