Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist Occupational Therapist
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Occupational Therapist within the Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Service
We are looking to recruit an Occupational Therapist within the Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Service. This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and passionate occupational therapist to join our perinatal mental health team.
About the Role
The successful candidate will work with women during pregnancy and postnatally, providing occupational therapy input to promote women’s mental health and wellbeing, functioning and support their transition to motherhood. The successful candidate will adopt an holistic approach to their practice, considering the needs of all individuals involved.
Responsibilities
- Work as part of an MDT consisting of doctors, nurses, psychologists, OT, family support workers and administrative staff.
- Work in the community alongside other community services and in patient’s homes to support women and families who need specialist care.
- Independently manage own caseload, prioritising referrals.
- Select and complete bespoke standardised and non-standardised OT assessments, applying an understanding of complex mental health needs and the impact this can have on occupational performance within a parenting role, as well as the mother-infant relationship.
- Collaboratively set goals to guide OT interventions.
- Plan and facilitate a range of 1:1 therapeutic interventions using a graded approach to achieve individualised therapeutic goals.
- Contribute towards the planning, facilitation and evaluation of groups.
- Develop working networks with relevant community agencies, where appropriate collaborating to complete joint working.
- Represent an OT clinical perspective within the MDT and other professional meetings.
- Be aware of and respond appropriately to the safeguarding needs of adults and children.
- Contribute to the continued development and evaluation of the OT service within the perinatal team.
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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 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.
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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
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Contact Information
For further details or informal visits contact:
- Name: Samantha Evans
- Job title: Team Manager
- Email address: samantha.evans@merseycare.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 0151 702 4012
Please contact either of the following for further detail:
0151 702 4012
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