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Occupational Therapist
Band 5
Main area ICRAS Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent: Rotational post, may include weekend working Hours
* Full time
* Part time
37.5 hours per week (Includes weekend working on a rota basis.) Job ref 350-CC7298415
Site ICRAS Team Christian Hartley Medical Centre Town Southport Salary £29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 01/07/2025 23:59
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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
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 Southport and Formby .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.
We’re a very supportive team with a senior nurse, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, therapy and health practitioner assistants and advanced clinical practitioners.
Our neighbourhood approach is across Southport and Formby we work with intermediate care hubs, planned therapies who support patients with long term conditions, 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 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
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
Skills
* Up to date knowledge and application of current best Practice in Occupational Therapy relevant Area of Practice
* Application of Occupational Therapy Outcome measures and Models of practice
* Application of the process of standard setting, audit, evaluation and review
* A sound knowledge of the core skills of Occupational Therapy and their application in this field
* Be able to communicate effectively with service users within the specific client group
* Have good listening skills
* Demonstrate a good knowledge of the Health Profession Councils standards of Proficiency and Occupational therapists responsibility to identify gaps in their knowledge base
* Demonstrate knowledge the concepts of mentorship, and supervision. Evidence active participation supervision and the appraisal process
* Experience of Group and Individual interventions with the specific client group
* Experience working in a collaborative way with MDT and service users/carers
* Apply and promote OT skills, to include carrying out occupational assessments, setting clear occupational goals and facilitating a wide variety of therapeutic interventions via the provision of meaningful activities
* Able to apply Person Centred Approaches
* Apply clinical skills and able to reflect on own and others practice
* Excellent range of communication skills, able to motivate and support other staff
* Ability to facilitate presentations
* Self-management and motivation skills
* IT literate
* Ability to travel across boundaries
* Awareness of local agenda in health and social care
* Apply Professional skills to enable MDT working partnerships and liaise with external agencies
* Demonstrate leadership skills to be able to initiate, monitor and implement change and fully participate the development of OT service delivery
Knowledge and Experience
* Experience of OT functional assessment including activity analysis
* Experience of successful team working
* Experience of liaison with internal and external services and agencies
* Knowledge and ability to express an understanding of Occupational Therapy
* Process including activity and task analysis and the formulation of intervention plans grounded in clinical reasoning
* General knowledge of the principles of clinical governance
* Have an understanding of clinical and environmental risk assessment
* Evidence of CPD/Short courses
* Experience of service development audit and research practice relevant to the clinical area
* Experience of planning and facilitating therapeutic groups for patients/ clients
* Experience of service development
* Experience of being involved in clinical audit and/or research
* Familiar with Electronic Patient Records
* Management and clinical leadership
* basic understanding of relevant legislation including The Mental Capacity Act
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
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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.
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Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
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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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