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.
We are looking for enthusiastic and proactive Occupational Therapists 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 community care division we are looking for you and would love you to join our supportive teams.
ICRAS Therapy teams work to support patients in their own homes, we provide a urgent care response service to prevent hospital admissions and facilitate early discharge and provide short term rehabilitation, and reablement services through delivery in our hub beds and within patients own homes.
Access to a vehicle is required for this role - being able to travel between multiple sites in the course of performing duties is essential. The role will involve regular travel across health care organisation sites in the Liverpool/South Sefton catchment area. Therefore, the post holder must be able to meet the travel requirements of this post.
Reasonable adjustments will be made for applicants who are unable to meet the criteria due to a disability. The access to work scheme may be able to support applicants.
The post holder will be expected to effectively manage a caseload of patient’s co-morbidities as an autonomous practitioner, using evidence based/ patient centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions of the patient group. The post holder will provide leadership for junior staff, when appropriate, through supervision and appraisal. The post holder will participate in planning, development and evaluation of OT services within a designated area/team, holding responsibility for defined projects. The post holder 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 evidenced based practice.
Work in partnership with other professional to enable patients / clients to be maintained in an appropriate environment, thus avoiding hospital admission.
To contribute to the maintenance and development of The Occupational Therapy profession within ICRAS and will facilitate effective learning within the area of practice for all students and practitioners.
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.
Key Responsibilities
* Undertake comprehensive holistic assessments, devise treatment plans individualised to patient needs, reviewing and adapting during the patient journey from initial assessment through to discharge.
* Gain consent through engaging patients / clients through their therapy journey, enabling them to experience choice and as part of their recovery.
* Prioritise designated Occupational Therapy referrals according to need, risk and service capacity.
* Plan and implement patient centred individual and/or group interventions, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals including sensory integration difficulties within ward/rehab hub setting.
* Monitor, evaluate and modify treatment to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.
* Apply a high level of understanding of the effect of disability and provide training and advice on lifestyle changes and adaptations to the patient’s social and physical environment.
* Provide clinical advice, expertise and leadership within your team.
* Monitor and offer professional advice and leadership to all team members with regards to their caseloads and working practices.
* Ensure service users care plans are developed to meet assessed needs; monitor via performance management that care plans are appropriate and of a high standard.
* Liaise with family members, carers, GPs and other professionals when completing assessments and developing care plans.
* Be a point of contact for service users and carers with concerns regarding care, resolving them sensitively and promptly, and informing the Team Manager as necessary.
* Develop a risk management plan for service users, ensuring all significant people are aware and actions are implemented; monitor risk management plans for quality.
* Leading the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users under your care.
* Monitor high standards relating to planning and delivery of Occupational Therapy activities and comply with the Royal College of Occupational Therapists Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.
* Supervise sector members’ caseloads and via audit to ensure delivery of a range of therapeutic activities.
* Use skills to de-escalate situations where service users become aggressive; assess if a medic or hospital admission is required as appropriate.
* Deal with service users who become anxious, hostile or distressed; ensure appropriate support following incidents and actions arising are implemented.
* Participate in and/or lead service user reviews to ensure needs are met and clinical information is available for decisions.
* Develop care plans that enable service users to reach and maintain optimum health and independence in the community or on discharge.
* Demonstrate understanding of capacity and the Mental Capacity Act.
Qualifications/Requirements
Please see the attached Job Description for the full list of responsibilities and duties.
This advert closes on Wednesday 8 Oct 2025.
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