Specialist Occupational Therapist

We are looking to recruit a Occupational Therapist within the Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Service.

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and passionate occupational therapist to join our perinatal mental health team. The successful candidate will work with women during pregnancy and postnatally, providing occupational therapy input to promote women's mental health and wellbeing, functioning and support their transition to motherhood. The successful candidate will adopt an holistic approach to their practice, considering the needs of all individuals involved.

The role involves working as part of an MDT consisting of doctors, nurses, psychologists, OT, family support workers and administrative staff. You will work in the community alongside other community services and in patient's homes to support women and families who need specialist care.

Whilst this role will primarily focus on delivering Perinatal OT interventions in the Sefton district, we cover Liverpool also, there may be at times the need to cross cover

Main duties of the job

Independently manage own caseload, prioritising referrals

Select and complete bespoke standardised and non-standardised OT assessments, applying an understanding of complex mental health needs and the impact this can have on occupational performance within a parenting role, as well as the mother-infant relationshipCollaboratively set goals to guide OT interventions

Plan and facilitate a range of 1:1 therapeutic interventions using a graded approach to achieve individualised therapeutic goals

Contribute towards the planning, facilitation and evaluation of groups

Develop working networks with relevant community agencies, where appropriate collaborating to complete joint working

Represent an OT clinical perspective within the MDT and other professional meetings

Be aware of and respond appropriately to the safeguarding needs of adults and children

Contribute to the continued development and evaluation of the OT service within the perinatal team

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.