Occupational Therapist (Longmoor House)

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Liverpool is seeking an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join their therapy team. This role requires working within a supportive multidisciplinary environment to deliver high-quality reablement services. Ideal candidates should possess excellent time management and clinical reasoning skills while being committed to individualised patient care. Opportunities for professional development are also provided in this state-of-the-art facility.

Qualifications

• Ability to work autonomously and manage a caseload.
• Experience in providing evidence-based individualised treatment.
• Commitment to quality and patient-centered care.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide reablement service.
• Administer timely and effective treatment for safe patient discharge.
• Participate in service training and quality initiatives.

Skills

Excellent time management

Clinical reasoning

Risk assessment skills

Job description

Job Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and innovative Occupational Therapist to join the therapy team at Longmoor House. Longmoor House is a newly refurbished Integrated Care Unit that provides step down care from acute trusts and step up care from community for medically optimised patients where it is anticipated that there are ongoing nursing, therapy and reablement needs. In joining the team you will have the opportunity to

• work in a supportive and caring environment
• have the opportunity to develop professionally
• Deliver excellent healthcare and make a positive difference in patients' lives
• Work within an integrated team with all members of the MDT and partner services
• Work in a state of the art newly refurbished facility, utilising technologies to improve patient care
• Participate in the many quality initiatives to improve patient experience and care

The service is based on a nursing and therapy led reablement model with advanced nurse practitioner and medical cover, utilising a holistic and person centred approach in order to support individuals requiring our services. Our multidisciplinary working with combined expertise, revised pathways and community connections will facilitate a more timely discharge in conjunction with our service users reducing days away from home.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be working as part of our extensive multidisciplinary team to provide an excellent and effective reablement service. You will be expected to be able to work autonomously and take responsibility for a caseload ensuring that evidence based, individualised and effective treatment is administered with the outcome of a timely and safe discharge. Excellent time management, clinical reasoning and risk assessment skills are essential for this role. You will be supported by the senior members of staff and team lead with regular supervision and in service training. The service will work over 7 days per week on a rota.

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. 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.