ICRAS Occupational Therapist - Rotational
Band 5
Main area: ICRAS
Grade: Band 5
Contract: Permanent: Rotational post, may include weekend working
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Includes weekend working on a rota basis.)
Job ref: 350-CC6695064
Site: Therapy Team
Town: Liverpool
Salary: per annum pro rata
Closing: 18/11/2024 23:59
Job overview
ICRAS (Integrated Reablement and Assessment Service) is a unique service providing a rapid responsive approach to support admission avoidance and early hospital discharges.
We’re looking for an occupational therapist to join our multidisciplinary teams across Liverpool and South Sefton. If you’re motivated, with a therapy background, a passion to promote allied health professionals, and share our aim for perfect care, we’d like to hear from you.
The role can involve rotations within ICRAS across hubs, community and Reablement Pathway which will enable you to develop skills and flourish within your career. If this interests you, come and join our fantastic team.
As well as our own internal ICRAS rotations, we are also part of a wider rotational scheme within Mersey Care which may include mental health services, Paediatrics, Pulmonary Rehab, Early Supported Stroke rehab and many more.
We’re a very supportive team with a senior nurse, pharmacist, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, podiatrist, therapy and health practitioner assistants and advanced clinical practitioners.
Our neighbourhood approach is across Liverpool and South Sefton, we work with intermediate care hubs, HARL – working alongside a paramedic responding to falls within the community, reablement pathways and much more.
Main duties of the job
We’ll encourage your development whether through training, job shadowing, internal promotion etc.
What we offer
* A robust support structure with regular clinical supervision and performance development review
* A comprehensive monthly in-service training programme
* Opportunities to support service delivery including audits, in-service training, etc.
* Monthly peer group support
* An innovative NHS Trust that’s committed to investing in its future and its staff
* Opportunities to develop peers, students and therapy assistants
* Be part of the development of services at the centre of the future direction of healthcare
* Structured career progression, support and opportunities
* Flexible working patterns and our commitment to a good work life balance.
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 11 million people.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To undertake comprehensive holistic assessment, devise treatment plans individualised to patient needs, reviewing and adapting during the patients journey from initial assessment through to discharge.
To promote awareness of OT role within the MDT, negotiating priorities where appropriate.
To use verbal and non verbal communication skills established through training and experience to impart sensitive information.
To ensure that up to date written and electronic records and activity data are maintained in accordance with Professional and Trust standards and provide specialist OT reports relevant to practice setting.
To adhere to Trust Policy of Confidentiality.
To comply with the COT Code of Ethics and Professional Code of Conduct.
To participate in clinical and management supervision.
Person specification
Qualification
* Qualification of relevant degree to the post requirement
* Work based experience
Knowledge and Experience
* Awareness of MDT working
* Awareness of OT process
* Evidence of being able to communicate effectively with patients and MDT
* Basic awareness of conditions
* Basic assessment skills
Skills
* IT literate
* Ability to travel across the city
* Self management and motivation skills
* Effective communication
* Demonstrate flexibility
Diversity and Inclusion
We celebrate diversity and promote 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.
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.
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.
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 £13 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.
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.
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