Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapist
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (office hours)
- Job ref
- 350-SC7125594
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hollins Park
- Town
- Warrington
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Occupational Therapist
Band 6
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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 ethnic minorities, 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
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of Specialist Community Forensic Team and Step Down Services.
You will provide high quality consultation, specialist assessment and intervention to deliver effective, person centred clinical services for people who access our services.
Main duties of the job
The Specialist Community Forensic Team is a multi-disciplinary team consisting of nursing, occupational therapy, social work, psychology and psychiatry. You will be expected to work in all areas of Cheshire and Merseyside and liaise with a number of partner agencies including health, social care and the Criminal Justice agencies to develop proactive and preventative risk mitigation support. You will be required to work primarily 9-5, Monday to Friday.
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 hold a clinical caseload.
Operate as the Occupational Therapist for the Specialist Community Forensic team and Step Down Services.
Provide highly specialised clinical expertise in Occupational Therapy focusing on rehabilitation and recovery through meaningful occupation based on evidence based practice.
To provide comprehensive risk assessment of offending and / or other complex behaviours and provide risk management strategies and recommendations.
See Job Description and Person Specification for further details.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Relevant professional OT qualification
- Current HCPC registration
Desirable criteria
- Fieldwork Educators certificate.
- Post graduate accredited study e.g. PSI, CBT, MSc in relevant health studies.
KNOWLEDGE/ EXPERIENCE:
Essential criteria
- Previous experience in relevant health settings.
- Supervision of staff.
- Effective team working within a multi-agency framework.
- Experience of service development.
- Experience using both group and individual treatment skills.
- Demonstrate experience of problem solving approaches.
- Audit and research practices relevant to clinical area.
- Assisting with effective budgetary management.
- Evidence based and experience of reflective practice.
- Recovery Model of Care.
- Model of Human Occupation.
- Safe Guarding Children.
- Mental Health Act 1983.
- Mental Capacity Act.
- Effective Care Coordination.
- Relevant national policies and guidance.
- Up to date clinical knowledge relevant to the care environment.
- Audit and research methods.
- Vulnerable adults guidelines.
- Able to discuss/explain specialist OT role.
- Awareness of own.
- Strengths and limitations.
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate clinical experience, within mental health services.
- Wider range of statutory and non-statutory services.
- Risk management training.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to utilise assessment skills and tools effectively.
- Ability to communicate in a variety of settings.
- Ability to formulate relevant reports.
- Delegation and coordination.
- Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines.
- Mentorship skills.
- Accurate Record keeping .
- Flexible approach/ creative thinking.
- Able to move and handle clients.
- IT skills.
Desirable criteria
- Effective leadership qualities.
- Presentation skills.
- Ability to network and influence decision making.
- Team Building skills.
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
- Sharon Meade
- Job title
- Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 431 5152
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