Main area: Occupational Therapist Grade Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (office hours)
Job ref: 350-SC7125594
Site: Hollins Park
Town: Warrington
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 20/04/2025 23:59
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
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the Specialist Community Forensic Team and Step Down Services.
You will provide high quality consultation, specialist assessment, and intervention to deliver effective, person-centred clinical services for people who access our services.
Main duties of the job
The Specialist Community Forensic Team is a multi-disciplinary team consisting of nursing, occupational therapy, social work, psychology, and psychiatry. You will be expected to work in all areas of Cheshire and Merseyside and liaise with a number of partner agencies including health, social care, and the Criminal Justice agencies to develop proactive and preventative risk mitigation support. You will be required to work primarily 9-5, Monday to Friday.
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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To hold a clinical caseload.
Operate as the Occupational Therapist for the Specialist Community Forensic team and Step Down Services.
Provide highly specialised clinical expertise in Occupational Therapy focusing on rehabilitation and recovery through meaningful occupation based on evidence-based practice.
To provide comprehensive risk assessment of offending and/or other complex behaviours and provide risk management strategies and recommendations.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Current HCPC registration
Knowledge/Experience
* Previous experience in relevant health settings.
* Supervision of staff.
* Effective team working within a multi-agency framework.
* Experience of service development.
* Experience using both group and individual treatment skills.
* Demonstrate experience of problem-solving approaches.
* Audit and research practices relevant to clinical area.
* Assisting with effective budgetary management.
* Evidence-based and experience of reflective practice.
* Recovery Model of Care.
* Model of Human Occupation.
* Mental Health Act 1983.
* Mental Capacity Act.
* Effective Care Coordination.
* Relevant national policies and guidance.
* Up-to-date clinical knowledge relevant to the care environment.
* Audit and research methods.
* Awareness of own strengths and limitations.
* Postgraduate clinical experience, within mental health services.
* Wider range of statutory and non-statutory services.
Skills
* Ability to utilise assessment skills and tools effectively.
* Ability to communicate in a variety of settings.
* Ability to formulate relevant reports.
* Delegation and coordination.
* Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines.
* Flexible approach/creative thinking.
* Able to move and handle clients.
* Ability to network and influence decision making.
Additional Information
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs.
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 vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role to 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.
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