Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 350-MHC7333898
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hollins Park
- Town
- Warrington
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/08/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 07/08/2025
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist
Band 7
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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 ethnically diverse, 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
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and creative individual to join the Inpatient Occupational Therapy Teams within the Mental Health Care Division. The post holder will provide leadership and support across the inpatient services within the Acute wards in Halton and Warrington Place, and Complex Care wards across the Trust footprint.
Working within these areas, the post holder will support therapists to provide specialist Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention as part of a team approach to supporting service users. You should have an expert knowledge and skill set in working with people who require an inpatient admission in relation to their mental health and cognitive needs and recovery, across both working age and older adult populations. You must be able to demonstrate the ability to work as part of a Multidisciplinary Team, and demonstrate proven leadership skills.
Main duties of the job
To support therapists and undertake:
- Occupational therapy assessments, addressing occupational performance and skill deficits in areas of self-care, productivity and leisure.
- Plan and implement individual and/or group interventions, using selected and graded activity to develop the client’s skills in identified areas of deficit.
- Comprehensive risk assessment with clients, and record the rationale for therapeutic risk taking in the OT care plan.
- Highly specialist reports to inform statutory bodies
- Highly specialist assessments, and compile OT reports, on behalf of the MDT to inform interventions, diagnosis and outcomes for clients with the most complex needs.
- Ensure ongoing monitoring and evaluation of the occupational therapy process in line with sound evidence based practice.
- Provide advice on issues related to ADL for other professionals and carers.
- Work closely with OT colleagues from other clinical settings / teams, providing individual and peer group support.
- provide support to occupational therapy staff within relevant Place regarding capacity and flow, complexity, acuity, and service delivery.
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
See Job description for detailed job description and main responsibilities.
The main duties of the role are to provide leadership and support for the Occupational Therapists working across the inpatient services in the Mental Health Care Division; alongside supporting with clinical cases as appropriate.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Diploma/Degree or equivalent Occupational Therapy qualification
- Evidence of post-qualification study/short courses and Continuing Professional Development
- Health and Care Professions Council Registration
Desirable criteria
- Post Graduate Certificate in Occupational Therapy, Leadership and/or Organisational Change up to Master level Practice Placement Educator Training
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Current legislation and national initiatives related to older adults with mental health problems
- Clinical and environment assessment & management of clinical risk
- Knowledge of Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended by Mental Health Act 2007)
- Knowledge of Mental Health Capacity Act 2005
- Minimum of three years post qualifying experience as an Occupational Therapist
- Supervision of staff and students
- Development of Occupational Therapy services
- Application of Occupational Therapy Models of Practice and Standardised Assessments & Outcome Measures
- Involvement in research and clinical audit
Desirable criteria
- AMPS training
- OCAIRS
- MOHOST
- VQ
- ACIS
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Psycho-Social Intervention
- Experience of working with older adults with mental health problems
- Line-management of staff
- Familiar with Electronic Patient Records (EPR) system
- Understanding and use of the Model of Human Occupation and its associated assessment tools and outcome measures
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential criteria
- Leadership Qualities
- Managerial Skills
- Ability to provide training, advice and guidance to staff/service users
- Ability to complete assessments and clinical reports in line with the CPA process and Royal College of Occupational Therapy guidance
- Demonstrates depth of clinical skills and implementation Occupational Therapy clinical practice and ability to hold a complex caseload
- Ability to identify and implement clinical and service developments
- Ability to be an effective role model
- Ability to work autonomously as well as effectively with team members and other agencies
- Clear effective written & verbal communication
- Basic IT skills
Desirable criteria
- Designing and implementing research projects
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own and others performance
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Hannah Davies
- Job title
- Head of AHPs, Mental Health Care Division
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07795827163
- Additional information
Alternatively contact Amy McMeekin Divisional Lead for Occupational Therapy Mental Health Care Division
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