Occupational Therapist

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool City Region; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool is seeking a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join the Urgent and Intermediate Care (ICRAS) therapy team. You will manage a diverse caseload of adults, deliver person-centred care, and contribute to service development.

The role offers leadership opportunities, supervision of junior staff, flexible working options, and opportunities across wider Urgent Care pathways to support early discharges and reduce unnecessary admissions.

Responsibilities

• Manage a diverse caseload of adults with complex co-morbidities, delivering high-quality, evidence-based, and person-centred care.
• Take a holistic approach to assessment and intervention, using appropriate models of care to support patients in achieving their goals and independence.
• Lead defined projects and contribute to service improvement; provide supervision and appraisal to junior staff.

Job description

Are you an enthusiastic and proactive Occupational Therapist ready to make a real difference in people’s lives while advancing your career in a supportive, forward-thinking organisation?

An exciting opportunity for Band 6 Occupational Therapists to join our dynamic Urgent and Intermediate Care (ICRAS) therapy team within Liverpool & South Sefton. We’re looking passionate, proactive, and skilled professionals who thrive in collaborative environments and committed to delivering outstanding care.

• ICRAS delivers rapid, responsive care preventing unnecessary hospital admissions and supports early discharges. A service that bridges health and social care, working across the Urgent Community Response (UCR), Care Transfer Hub, and Intermediate Care Bed Base. We operate 7 days a week, including bank holidays, ensuring continuity of care for our communities. There will be an expectation to support across wider Urgent Care Service Line during times of pressures to support capacity.
• Work alongside highly skilled team including Physiotherapists, Assistant Practitioners, Community Discharge Matrons and Nurses. Together, we deliver holistic, person-centered care that maximises independence and prevents unnecessary hospital admissions.
• Whether you’re stepping up from Band 5 or looking to expand your leadership skills, we offer structured development pathways, supervision, leadership opportunities and involvement in service improvement projects.

As an autonomous practitioner, you will manage a diverse caseload of adults with complex co-morbidities, delivering high-quality, evidence-based, and person-centred care. You’ll take a holistic approach to assessment and intervention, using appropriate models of care to support patients in achieving their goals and maintaining independence within their chosen environment—helping to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions.

You’ll play a key role in shaping and developing Occupational Therapy services within your designated team, leading defined projects and contributing to service innovation. Leadership is integral to this role, and you’ll support junior staff through supervision and appraisal, fostering a culture of learning and professional growth.

Working collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams, you’ll help maintain and enhance the Occupational Therapy profession within ICRAS, supporting students and practitioners through effective learning opportunities and professional development.

Joining a team that values collaboration, compassion, and continuous learning.

Car driver desirable to be able to travel across the city to support community caseload.

Mersey Care is one of the largest NHS 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.