An exciting opportunity has arisen to cover a maternity leave, for an enthusiastic and innovative Occupational Therapist to join the therapy team at Longmoor House.
Longmoor House is an Intermediate Care Unit that provides step down care from acute trusts and step up care from community for medically optimised patients where it is anticipated that there are ongoing nursing, therapy and reablement needs.
In joining the team you will have the opportunity to:
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work in a supportive and caring environment
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have the opportunity to develop professionally
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Deliver excellent healthcare and make a positive difference in patients’ lives
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Deliver individual & group interventions
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Gain key leadership and managerial skills
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Work within an integrated team with all members of the MDT and partner services
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Participate in the many quality initiatives to improve patient experience and care
The service is based on a nursing and therapy led reablement model with advanced nurse practitioner and medical cover, utilising a holistic and person centred approach in order to support individuals requiring our services.
Our multidisciplinary working with combined expertise, revised pathways and community connections will facilitate a more timely discharge in conjunction with our service users reducing days away from home.
The successful candidate will be working as part of our extensive multidisciplinary team to provide an excellent and effective reablement service.
You will be expected to be able to work autonomously and take responsibility for a caseload ensuring that evidence based, individualised and effective treatment is administered with the outcome of a timely and safe discharge.
Excellent time management, clinical reasoning and risk assessment skills are essential for this role.
You will be supported by the senior members of staff and team lead with regular supervision and in service training.
The service will work over 7 days per week with weekend cover on a rota basis.
Mersey Care is one of the largest NHS 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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Janet Woolley Job title: Occupational Therapy Team Leader Email address: Janet.woolley@merseycare.nhs.uk Telephone number: 0151 296 7202
Janet Woolley, Occupational Therapy Team Leader. Email address: janet.woolley@merseycare.nhs.uk
Working times Mon - Weds 08:30 - 18:00
Thursday: 08:30 - 20:00