Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated, experienced and creative individual to join the Learning Disability Services for Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust - completing sensory integration assessments for people with learning disabilities and being part of a wider multi-disciplinary team. You will be based with the Halton Community Learning Disability Team, Bridges Learning Centre Widnes, but will cover Halton, Warrington, St Helens & Knowsley., To undertake sensory integration assessments for people with learning disabilities.

To provide leadership and highly specialist clinical expertise in the provision of Occupational Therapy to adults who have learning disabilities.

To provide an Occupational Therapy service which is inclusiveof best practice, evidence- based practice and is outcome focused.To formulate flexible, robust and holistic care plans with service users and/or carers that aim to guide service users towards reaching an optimum level of functioning and support them to maintain goodmental health.To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team in providing and coordinating a therapeutic, person centred treatment and care pathway. To provide clinical expertise to guide and influence the integrated therapeutic approach from an Occupational Therapy perspective to registered nurses,psychology, medical staff, speech and language therapists, Physiotherapists, and support/direct care staff in the development and provision of meaningful occupational / recreational.

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.