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.
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.
Responsibilities
* The post holder will be expected to effectively manage a caseload of patients\ 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.
Additional information: The post involves travel across health care organisation sites in the Liverpool/South Sefton catchment area. Access to work adjustments may be available for applicants with a disability.
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