Our Knowsley community therapy team is seeking a committed Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our service, supporting patients through shared care within their localities. We are looking for a highly skilled, enthusiastic, and proactive therapist to join our team. The service responds to the rehabilitation needs of adults 18+, who have multiple complex co-morbidities or support with discharge from the hospital Willowbrook hospice or from a short-term placement.
We thrive to communicate and collaborate between Integrated care systems to address the health and social care needs across the area, maximizing patient independence and preventing hospital admissions. This is a fantastic opportunity to join our multi-disciplinary team, which consists of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Assistant Practitioners, and Therapy Assistants.
The post holder will be expected to effectively manage a caseload of patients’ comorbidities as an autonomous practitioner, using evidence-based/patient-centered principles to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate interventions for the patient group. The post holder will provide leadership for junior staff, when appropriate, through supervision and appraisal. They will participate in planning, development, and evaluation of Occupational Therapy services within a designated area/team, holding responsibility for defined projects.
The post holder will take a holistic approach in the assessment and treatment of service users/patients, being responsible for the provision of appropriate, high-quality care to a defined caseload which may be of a complex nature, using the appropriate model of care and evidence-based practice.
Responsibilities include:
1. Working in partnership with other professionals to enable patients/clients to be maintained in an appropriate environment, thus avoiding hospital admission.
2. Contributing to the maintenance and development of the Occupational Therapy profession within community therapy, short-term placements, and Willowbrook hospice.
3. Facilitating effective learning within the area of practice for all students and practitioners.
4. Undertaking comprehensive holistic assessments and devising treatment plans individualized to patient needs, reviewing and adapting during the patient journey from initial assessment through to discharge.
5. Gaining consent through engaging patients/clients through their therapy journey, enabling them to experience choice as part of their recovery.
6. Prioritizing designated Occupational Therapy referrals according to need, risk, and service capacity.
7. Planning and implementing patient-centered individual and/or group interventions, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals including sensory integration difficulties within ward/rehab hub settings.
8. Monitoring, evaluating, and modifying treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.
9. Applying a high level of understanding of the effect of disability and providing training and advice on lifestyle changes and adaptations to the patient’s social and physical environment.
10. Providing clinical advice, expertise, and leadership within your team.
11. Monitoring and offering professional advice and leadership to all team members regarding their caseloads and working practices.
12. Ensuring that the service users' care plan is developed to meet the assessed needs of the individual.
13. Liaising with family members, carers, GPs, and other professionals as necessary when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.
14. Developing a risk management plan for service users under your care, ensuring all significant people are aware of the plan and actioning it appropriately.
15. Leading the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users under the care of the sector you have responsibility for.
16. Participating in and/or leading service user reviews ensuring that service user needs are met.
17. Demonstrating an understanding of capacity and the Mental Capacity Act.
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 program of organizational 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.
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