Occupational Therapy Assistant, Secure Care | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 13 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,937 - £26,598 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 September 2025 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L31 1FN |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7407758/350-SC7407758 |
Summary
Are you passionate about making a real difference in people’s lives? We’re offering a unique opportunity for multiple Occupational Therapy Assistants to become part of our dedicated team at Rowan View, a medium secure hospital within Mersey Care’s Secure Care Division.
In this specialist role, you’ll work closely with individuals with a mental health and/orlearning disability & autism diagnosis, helping them build meaningful lives through compassionate, person-centred care.
We’re looking for empathetic, motivated individuals who are eager to contribute to the ongoing improvement of our care services. If you’re driven by purpose and thrive in a supportive, multidisciplinary environment, we’d love to hear from you.
You will be responsible for assisting in the delivery of meaningful activities of daily living within the Occupational Therapy service, under the direction and supervision of a qualified Occupational Therapist.You will be required to actively work as part of The Multi-Disciplinary Team. You will be expected to work in an innovative way to support the smooth running of the Occupational Therapy Service and will be required to offer individual and group activities alongside all other Occupational Therapy staff and under the indirect and direct supervision of a Qualified Occupational Therapist.
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.
CLINICAL
1. To work effectively as a member of a team in providing a programme of therapeutic activities and interventions as directed by the occupational therapist.
2. To actively engage service users in therapeutic activities to promote independence and well-being within hospital and community environments.
3. The post holder will be required to facilitate 1:1 and group sessions under the Occupational Therapy and Life Rooms model.
4. Support service users to attend and participate in sessions that promote recovery through attendance at Occupational Therapy and Life Rooms courses.
5. To provide an update and overview of service users participation, engagement level and skills following sessions.
6. To form professional relationships with service users and communicate with them in a way that respects their views, autonomy and culture.
7. To maintain a high degree of confidentiality.
ORGANISATIONAL
8. To ensure that up to date written and electronic records are kept and recorded appropriately in accordance with Professional and Trust Standards.
PROFESSIONAL
9. Undertake delegated tasks to contribute to the safe and smooth running of the service.
10. To ensure a safe and well maintained environment in accordance with current Security directions, Health and Safety Legislation, COSHH, and local operational security policies and guidelines.
11. To adhere to the Royal College of Occupational Therapists Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, and the Trust’s policies and guidelines.
12. In line with Trust guidelines, review and reflect on your own practice and performance through regular participation in professional supervision and personal development planning.
13. To participate in the induction, training and education of students and other staff.
14. To keep a record of your training and development activities.
QUALITY
15. Under the supervision of a registered Occupational Therapist the post holder will facilitate and participate in planned group work and individual activities set within service user’s treatment plans.
16. To give feedback to the team regarding the service user’s performance / progress in areas of self-management, productivity and leisure including risk factors.
17. To participate, as appropriate, clinical and professional meetings held within the service.
18. To participate in clinical governance and quality improvement projects allocated by the Senior Occupational Therapist.
19. To participate in Occupational Therapy Team audit, evaluation activities and service user feedback questionnaires.
This advert closes on Wednesday 27 Aug 2025