ICRAS Therapy Team Leader

ICRAS (Integrated Reablement and Assessment Service) is a unique service providing a rapid responsive approach to support admission avoidance and early hospital discharges., We're looking for a therapy team lead to join our existing multidisciplinary teams across Liverpool and South Sefton. If you're motivated, with a therapy background, a passion to promote allied health professionals, and share our aim for perfect care, we'd like to hear from you.

You'll have operational leadership for: occupational therapists, physiotherapists and therapy assistants/assistant practitioners, ensuring high standards of therapeutic interventions are delivered to our patient population, alongside maintaining performance in line with CQC standards. This includes provision/oversight of audits, staff development, sickness management etc. There may also be a clinical element to the role dependant upon capacity and service delivery needs.

Our neighbourhood approach is across Liverpool and South Sefton, we work with intermediate care hubs, planned therapies who support patients with long term conditions, Hospital Avoidance Response of Liverpool (HARL) - working alongside a paramedic responding to falls within the community, reablement pathways and much more.

As a leader there are many development opportunities such as ICRAS succession plan including management modules, ARRIVE training, Edward Jenner and much more., We're looking for a therapy team lead to join our existing multidisciplinaryteams across Liverpool and South Sefton. If you're motivated, with a therapy background, a passion to promote allied health professionals, and share our aim for perfect care, we'd like to hear from you.

You'll have operational leadership for: occupational therapists, physiotherapists and therapy assistants/assistant practitioners, ensuring high standards of therapeutic interventions are delivered to our patient population, alongside maintaining performance in line with CQC standards. This includes provision/oversight of audits, staff development, sickness management etc. There may also be a clinical element to the role dependant upon capacity and service delivery needs.

You'll be part of a very supportive team - senior nurse, pharmacist, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, podiatrist, therapy and health practitioner assistants and advanced clinical practitioners.Our neighbourhood approach is across Liverpool and South Sefton, we work with intermediate care hubs, planned therapies who support patients with long term conditions, Hospital Avoidance Response of Liverpool (HARL) - working alongside a paramedic responding to falls within the community, reablement pathways and much more.

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.