Specialist Occupational Therapist (ICRAS) - Urgent Care

ICRAS (Integrated Reablement and Assessment Service) is a unique service providing a rapid responsive approach to support admission avoidance and early hospital discharges and reablement.

We are looking for occupational therapists to join our multidisciplinary teams across Liverpool & South Sefton with a full time and part time post available. 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.

We have opportunities for both experienced Band 6 level and can support band 5-6 developmental post with competency framework via Annex 21 AFC.

The role can involve rotations within ICRAS across intermediate care bed-based rehab hubs, community urgent care, reablement and Hospital Avoidance Response of Liverpool (HARL), which will enable you to develop skills and flourish within your career. If this interests you, come and join our fantastic team.

We're a very supportive team with a senior nurse, pharmacist, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, podiatrist, therapy and health practitioner assistants and advanced clinical practitioners.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be expected to effectively manage a caseload of patient's co-morbidities as an autonomous practitioner, using evidence based/ patient centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions of the patient group. The post holder will provide leadership for junior staff, when appropriate, through supervision and appraisal. The post holder will participate in planning, development and evaluation of OT services within a designated area/team, holding responsibility for defined projects.

The post holder take a holistic approach in the assessment and treatment of service users / patients, being responsible for the provision of appropriate, high quality care to a defined caseload which may be of a complex nature, using the appropriate model of care and evidenced based practice.

Work in partnership with other professional to enable patients / clients to be maintained in an appropriate environment, thus avoiding hospital admission.

To contribute to the maintenance and development of The Occupational Therapy profession within ICRAS and will facilitate effective learning within the area of practice for all students and practitioners.

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.