Overview
ICRAS (Integrated Reablement and Assessment Service) is a supportive multidisciplinary service providing a rapid responsive approach to support admission avoidance and early hospital discharges and reablement.
About the Role
We are looking for an enthusiastic and proactive Occupational Therapist to join our multidisciplinary teams across Liverpool and South Sefton. If you are motivated, with a passion to work within urgent care therapy to develop your clinical knowledge and experience within the community care division we would love you to join our supportive team.
Key Responsibilities
* Support patients in their own homes and provide an urgent care response to prevent hospital admissions and facilitate early discharge.
* Deliver short-term rehabilitation and reablement services through hub beds and home visits.
* Travel regularly across healthcare organisation sites in the Liverpool/South Sefton catchment area – access to a vehicle is required.
* Manage a caseload of patients with co‑morbidities as an autonomous practitioner using evidence-based, patient‑centred principles.
* Provide leadership for junior staff through supervision and appraisal.
* Plan, develop and evaluate OT services within a designated area/team, holding responsibility for defined projects.
* Take a holistic approach in assessment and treatment, ensuring high quality care for a complex caseload with appropriate models of care.
* Work in partnership with other professionals to enable patients/clients to remain in an appropriate environment, thereby avoiding hospital admission.
* Contribute to the development of the Occupational Therapy profession within ICRAS and facilitate effective learning for students and practitioners.
About Mersey Care
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 covering 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.
Working Hours & Conditions
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles. Reasonable adjustments will be made for applicants unable to meet the travel criteria due to a disability; the Access to Work scheme may support applicants.
Contact
For further details or informal visits, contact Jenna Patten – ICRAS Therapy Coordinator/Occupational Therapist – Email: jenna.patten@merseycare.nhs.uk – Telephone: 0151 247 6126.
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