Rotational Occupational Therapist | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 18 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £29,970 - £36,483 Per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 July 2025 |
| Location: | As above, L34 1PJ |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7270046/350-CC7270046 |
Summary
We are seeking enthusiastic and passionate registered Occupational Therapy candidates who are keen to consolidate and continue to develop their core Occupational Therapy skills and practise.
The Band 5 Occupational Therapy Rotation is Trust Wide and offers candidates the opportunity to work within physical, mental health, forensic and learning disability services across the Merseycare footprint, enabling opportunities within community and in-patient provision.
As a valued member of the Occupational Therapy workforce, training, CPD, supervision and preceptorship opportunities are available as standard to support you on your Occupational Therapy career journey in order to develop holistic skills sets.
**Interviews planned for 18th November 2024**
The successful post holders will join a varied and well-established Band 5 Occupational Therapy 6 monthly rotational programme.
You will be using evidence based/ patient centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions of the service user group.
The post holder will take a holistic approach in the assessment and treatment of service users / patients, being responsible for the provision of appropriate, high quality Occupational Therapy to a defined caseload.
You will work in partnership with other professionals and as an integral member of the Occupational Therapy teams and wider MDT, supporting service user's and their families and carer's side by side.
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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
The skills required for this post include practical problem solving skills, with sound clinical reasoning skills. An effective team player; and have excellent organisational and communication skills required to work in a busy service.
To be considered for this post you must have:
• BSc degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy and current HCPC registration or an Occupational Therapy Student due to graduate.
• Experience of working with patients with Physical Health conditions and/or Mental Health conditions and/or Learning Disabilities and/or Paediatrics.
• An understanding of the impact of these conditions on patient’s lives.
• Experience of undertaking holistic assessments.
• The ability to transport self around the community.
This advert closes on Wednesday 2 Jul 2025