Specialist Occupational Therapist | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
We have an exciting opportunity for a Specialist Occupational Therapist seeking to develop their clinical experience and knowledge, and to strengthen their leadership and managerial skills within Ashworth Hospital, High Secure Services. We are looking for a dedicated Occupational Therapist to join our enthusiastic, innovative, and expanding team.
The post holder will have the opportunity to work collaboratively with patients, carers, the multidisciplinary team, and wider agencies, and will have the opportunity to work closely with colleagues following an evidence-based OT process. Alongside the use of the existing and well-established Model of Human Occupation, the service is successfully embedding the practice based Vona du Toit Model of Creative Ability (VdTMoCA) as part of the core Occupational Therapy offer.The post holder will be responsible for providing high quality assessment, delivering treatment interventions plans, and evaluating outcomes for individuals with complex needs.
Supervision and line management will be provided by the Lead Occupational Therapist onsite during which you will have the opportunity to explore further training and qualifications to develop both personally and professionally. There are internal leadership programmes available, research opportunities with M-RIC, specialist clinical training opportunities, and B6 peer support groups to network and share knowledge and skills.
Shortlisting planned 6 August 2024
Interview planned 13 August 2024
Job Purpose:
To support the delivery of high quality specialist assessment and intervention in the development of effective clinical services within a high secure hospital.
To meet the complex needs of people with consideration given to forensic histories, the management and mitigation of risk, and to reducing restrictive practice.
Principal Responsibilities:
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health andmental 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 healthfacilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – carethat 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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles
See attached Job description and person specification for further information regarding main responsibilities
This advert closes on Monday 11 Nov 2024