Occupational Therapist

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; St Helens; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust invites an Occupational Therapist to join its acute mental health OT team. You will conduct comprehensive holistic assessments, develop individualized treatment plans, and deliver interventions within a supportive, evidence-based framework.

Supervision will be provided onsite by a senior Occupational Therapist, with opportunities to pursue further training and qualifications to advance personal and professional development.

Qualifications

• Provide high-quality assessment and treatment planning
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team to implement care plans
• Supervision by a senior Occupational Therapist onsite

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality holistic occupational therapy assessment and develop patient-centred treatment plans
• Deliver treatment interventions and evaluate outcomes for individuals with complex needs
• Plan and implement patient-centred group or individual interventions using graded activity
• Liaise with family, carers and other professionals during assessment and care planning
• Monitor and adapt care plans to meet patient needs and ensure effectiveness of intervention
• Support service users and contribute to service development within a female acute environment

Skills

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for an Occupational Therapist seeking to develop their clinical experience and knowledge within an acute mental health setting. We are looking for a dedicated Occupational Therapist to join our enthusiastic, innovative, and expanding mental health division occupational therapy team.

The post holder will have the opportunity to work collaboratively with patients, carers, the multidisciplinary team, and wider agencies, and will have the opportunity to work closely with colleagues following an evidence‑based OT process.

The post holder will be responsible for providing high quality assessment, delivering treatment interventions plans, and evaluating outcomes for individuals with complex needs.

Supervision will be provided by a senior Occupational Therapist onsite during which you will have the opportunity to explore further training and qualifications to develop both personally and professionally.

To undertake a comprehensive holistic Occupational Therapy assessment, devise treatment plans individualised to patient needs, reviewing and adapting during patient journey from initial assessment through to discharge.

To gain consent through engaging patients / clients through their therapy journey, enabling them to experience choice and as part of their recovery.

To plan and implement patient centred individual and/or group interventions, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals within ward setting.

To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.

To monitor and offer professional advice to all team members with regards to their caseloads and working practices.

To ensure that the service users care plan is developed to meet the assessed need of the individual. To monitor, via performance management, the care plans developed for service users by all sector members to ensure that they are appropriate and of a high standard.

To liaise with family members, carers and other professionals as necessary when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.

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.

To support the delivery of high quality specialist assessment and intervention in the development of effective clinical services within a female acute environment.

To meet the complex needs of people with consideration given to forensic histories, the management and mitigation of risk, and to reducing restrictive practice.