Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in mental health services is seeking a Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist to join their dedicated team. This role involves providing leadership and oversight for the Occupational Therapy service within a local prison, focusing on holistic mental health support. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in clinical assessment and therapeutic interventions, working collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team. This position offers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the lives of individuals in a challenging environment, all while being part of a supportive and passionate team committed to excellence in care.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing clinical assessments and therapeutic interventions.
• Ability to work in complex service and organizational settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and oversight for Occupational Therapy services.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions for prisoners.

Skills

Occupational Therapy

Clinical Assessment

Therapeutic Interventions

Multi-disciplinary Teamwork

Risk Management

Education

Degree in Occupational Therapy

Registered Occupational Therapist

Job description

Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is the health provider for the delivery of an Integrated Mental Health Team (IMHT) at HMP Altcourse. The service is designed to support the holistic mental health needs of our client group in partnership with our Physical Healthcare and HMPPS partners.

HMP Altcourse is a Category B, male only local prison in the Liverpool area.

Core aims of the service are to improve mental and psychological wellbeing via a range of interventions, build the development of independent core skills, reduce risk, and advocate for mental health within the wider prison.

The post holder will be joining a dedicated team of clinical and from a range of backgrounds and experience. Team members have high levels of skill, passion and enthusiasm (and humour!) and are committed to ensuring the on-going successful development of the service and the opportunities it provides for our population.

We are now recruiting a Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist to join our team. The successful candidate will provide leadership and oversight to ensure the effective delivery of an Occupational Therapy service. The post holder will have clinical responsibility of the provision of assessment, individual and group based therapeutic interventions and evaluating the effectiveness of the service. This will cover the array of clinical work that would promote occupational, psychological, recreational and supportive activity to meet the holistic needs of the individual prisoner.

The post holder should have considerable experience of working with individuals with complex clinical and risk presentations including within institutional settings and as part of a multi-disciplinary team. This should include work with clients whose needs may mean that they find it difficult to engage with services.

Experience of working in complex service and organisational settings is required alongside an ability to constructively manage the personal, professional and ethical opportunities and challenges such work can involve.

Within the IMHT’s, we prioritise the development of our staff team and have proven that we value and nurture diverse clinical interests. We are committed to creating an empowered staff team. We strive to be reflective and support of each other which is vital given the challenges this work can entail.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Debbie Brennand Job title: Clinical Service Manager (registered OT) Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07443441371

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Health, Wellness & Fitness

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