Specialist Occupational Therapist | Mersey Care Nhs Foundation Trust

We have exciting opportunities for Band 6 Occupational Therapists seeking to develop leadership/managerial experience, and knowledge, skills and experience within Aspen Wood at Maghull Health Park.
This specialist role will involve working in an inpatient assessment and treatment facility for adults with learning disability and/or autism, who require specialist support. Our aim is to understand functions of behaviours and access mental health treatment which may not be possible to carry out within a community setting. Our vision is to support service users through assessment, engagement and activity to achieve a timely discharge into the community.
You will have the opportunity to work collaboratively with service users, carers, MDT and wider agencies to promote and advocate an occupational perspective in relation to a person’s care, utilising evidence-based assessment and treatment models (MOHO and VdT MoCA) underpinned by the implementation of the Occupational Therapy process.
You will have access to further training/qualifications, internal leadership training opportunities through the MCFT leadership programmes, B6 peer supports scheme, clinical supervision and CPD opportunities are available to help develop your career aspirations and the quality of the service.
Job Purpose:
To support the delivery of high quality specialist assessment and intervention in the development of effective clinical services within the specified unit.
To meet the complex needs of people with learning disabilities and or autism who require specialist support and intervention.
Principal Responsibilities:
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.
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.
See attached Job description and person specification for further information regarding main responsibilities
This advert closes on Sunday 21 Jan 2024