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Location

Winwick, Cheshire | United Kingdom

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Job description

We have exciting opportunities for a Band 6 Occupational Therapist seeking to develop leadership/managerial experience, and knowledge, skills and experience within a prison environment for male clients over 18, working in a specialist role within forensic mental health.

You will have the opportunity to work collaboratively with service users, carers, MDT and wider agencies to promote and advocate an occupational perspective in relation to a person’s care, utilising evidence-based assessment and treatment models (MOHO and VdT MoCA) underpinned by the implementation of the Occupational Therapy process.

You will have access to further training/qualifications, internal leadership training opportunities through the MCFT leadership programmes, B6 peer supports scheme, clinical supervision and CPD opportunities are available to help develop your career aspirations and the quality of the service.

To support the delivery of high quality specialist assessment and intervention in the development of effective clinical services within forensic community and step down services.

To meet the complex needs of people with mental illness who have forensic histories.

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.

See attached Job description and person specification for further information regarding main responsibilities

This advert closes on Friday 23 Feb 2024

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