Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist Occupational Therapist
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Specialist Occupational Therapist
Specialist Occupational Therapist
We are looking to recruit a Specialist Occupational Therapist to join the Secure Care Division, within a well established multi-disciplinary team (MDT) providing support to service users at Rathbone Low Secure Hospital.
This is an exciting opportunity for individuals who are motivated, compassionate, and passionate about working within Secure Services.
- Join us and become part of a supportive, forward-thinking team committed to making a meaningful difference in people’s lives.
The post holder will be expected to:
- Manage a defined caseload, working as an autonomous practitioner within a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality, evidence-based occupational therapy interventions.
- Using person-centred approaches, they will assess, plan, implement and evaluate care to support service users’ functional skills, independence and recovery across a range of settings, while coordinating care and contributing to integrated care pathways.
- Support the delivery and development of the occupational therapy service by providing supervision and guidance to junior staff and students, maintaining high standards of clinical practice, and contributing to service improvement initiatives, governance, and quality assurance.
- Play an active role in leadership activities, including prioritising referrals, promoting effective team working, and contributing to the ongoing development of therapeutic services.
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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 requests will be considered for all roles.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Helen Baxendale
- Job title: Lead Occupational Therapist
- Email address: helen.baxendale@merseycare.nhs.uk
Mark McKenna
- Operational and Professional Lead OT - Secure Division
- Email: mark.mckenna3@merseycare.nhs.uk
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