Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

The post will be as part of the Greater Manchester Specialist Support Team (SST) based in Eccles. The GM SST is a multidisciplinary team consisting of Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work, Psychology, Speech and Language Therapy, and Support Workers. You will be expected to work in all areas of Greater Manchester and liaise with the local Learning Disability, Mental Health and Autism services to develop proactive and preventative risk mitigation support., Provide high quality consultation, specialist assessment and intervention in the development of effective clinical services to meet the complex needs of people with behaviour that challenges particularly those whose behaviour places them at risk of hospital admission, placement breakdown or criminal justice intervention.

The Highly Specialist Occupational Therapy role has a clinical and strategic leadership function within GMSST - offering supervision, support and governance to OT colleagues and contribution to the GMSST senior leadership team. You will provide leadership and highly specialised clinical expertise in Occupational Therapy focusing on rehabilitation and recovery through meaningful occupation based on evidence-based practice.

You will contribute to service development, both within GMSST and externally to improve services working with the referred client group.

The postholder will undertake wider GMSST duties, which may include completion of urgent assessments including risk assessments, chairing meetings and undertaking team duty / responder role. You may be required to participate in on-call arrangements for SST as per business continuity plans.

You must be willing to travel across Greater Manchester working with a number of partner agencies including health, social care and the Criminal Justice agencies. You will be required to work primarily 9-5, Monday to Friday.

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.