Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: Fern Ward
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 350-MHC7685190
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Fern Ward - Leigh Moss Hospital
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/01/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 03/02/2026
Employer heading
Specialist Occupational Therapist
Band 6
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
Are you looking for a post that will make full use of, and further develop your holistic Occupational Therapy Skills? Do you love using your detective and communication skills to develop the best assessment and intervention strategy possible for people who struggle to express their needs? Do you enjoy applying your knowledge of neurology and the aging process alongside your skills within cognitive and physical functional assessments?
On Fern Ward, Leigh Moss Hospital, Knotty Ash, Liverpool (near Alder Hey Hospital), we have a Specialist Occupational Therapy post that would make best use of your skills, within a comprehensive team (including physiotherapy, psychology, speech a and language, dietetics, medical, nursing and support staff), where you will be contributing to the high quality assessment of people living with dementia, facilitating interventions and supporting their discharge from our specialist ward.
In addition to utilising your Occupational Therapy clinical and leadership skills at ward level, you will be encouraged and supported to be part of innovation, research and audit, in order to maintain and develop your own knowledge and expertise, and that of others across the mental health division.
Informal visits and/or phone contact to gain further information from the ward manager and/or OT are very much welcomed. Please see details below.
Main duties of the job
To utilise and develop specialist knowledge providing professional, up to date interventions within the dementia service and to assist in the organisational development, co-ordination, and evaluation of the Occupational Therapy Service in conjunction with the Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist, Professional Lead for Occupational Therapy and relevant Team/Service Manager.
The post holder will contribute to an environment that works with local services to provide evidence-based assessment and delivery of care, and within the context of the effective patient journey. They will continue with their own professional development and assist with that of other Occupational Therapy staff. They will be required to have a flexible approach to working hours to ensure that the needs of their clients are met.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see job description for further information.
In summary:
- Provide assessment and intervention for service users on Fern Ward, one of two dementia assessment wards which are part of the Trust’s Mental Health Division
- Demonstrating effective partnership working
- Experience of Service development and innovation
- Experience in providing supervision and mentorship to others
Person specification
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills
- Ability to delegate& coordinate
- Ability to work to deadlines
- Ability to utilise assessment skills and tools effectively
- Able to present factual information and refer questions to others where appropriate
- Able to deal with sensitive issues with tact and diplomacy
- Demonstrate experience of managing difficult situations
- Able to develop effective interpersonal relationships with clients, colleagues and the wider team
- Good organisational/time management skills
- Ability to problem solve
- Ability to identify risk and minimise risk effectively
- Demonstrate a proactive approach to health and safety
- Ability to reflect on experience and identify lessons learnt
- Computer literate
- Willingness to travel in the course of performing duties
Desirable criteria
- Presentation skills
Knowledge / Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of receiving supervision and supervision of staff
- Evidence of effective partnership working
- Evidence of introducing service developments and innovation
- Evidence of active engagement in developing others
- Demonstrate the application of research and evidence-based practice within specialist field
- Demonstrate experience of problem- solving approaches
- Understanding of local, National, professional policies/guidance
- Mental Capacity Act
- Vulnerable Adults Procedure and Child Protection
- Demonstrate an understanding of own scope of practice and the implications for self and others
- Ability to recognise own behaviour and its impact on others
- Evidence of understanding and the application of leadership and management principles
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification appropriate to role
- Registration with HCPC
- Formal post graduate qualification relevantto specialist area of practice
- Assessor/Mentor/Practice Educator Training
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- James Savage
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01512506097
- Additional information
Julie Moss
Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist
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