Specialist Occupational Therapist; ICRAS - Urgent Care

Main area ICRAS - Community Division Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours 37.5 hours per week (Full time post - shifts across 7 day service) Job
-CC7716342

Employer Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Liverpool and Sefton Town Liverpool Salary £38,682 - £46,580 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 09/02/2026 23:59

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.

ICRAS (Integrated Reablement and Assessment Service) is a supportive multidisciplinary service providing a rapid responsive approach to support admission avoidance and early hospital discharges and reablement.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and proactive Occupational Therapist to join our multidisciplinary teams across Liverpool and South Sefton . If you are motivated, with a passion to work within urgent care therapy to develop your clinical knowledge and experience within community care division we are looking for you and would love you to join our supportive team.

ICRAS Therapy teams work to support patients in their own homes, we provide a urgent care response service to prevent hospital admissions and facilitate early discharge and provide short term rehabilitation, and reablement services through delivery in our hub beds and within patients own homes.

Access to a vehicle is required for this role - being able to travel between multiple sites in the course of performing duties is essential. The role will involve regular travel across health care organisation sites in the Liverpool/South Sefton catchment area. Therefore, the post holder must be able to meet the travel requirements of this post.

Reasonable adjustments will be made for applicants who are unable to meet the criteria due to a disability. The access to work scheme may be able to support applicants.

The post holder will be expected to effectively manage a caseload of patient’s co‑morbidities as an autonomous practitioner, using evidence based/ patient centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions of the patient group. The post holder will provide leadership for junior staff, when appropriate, through supervision and appraisal. The post holder will participate in planning, development and evaluation of OT services within a designated area/team, holding responsibility for defined projects.

The post holder take a holistic approach in the assessment and treatment of service users / patients, being responsible for the provision of appropriate, high quality care to a defined caseload which may be of a complex nature, using the appropriate model of care and evidenced based practice.

Work in partnership with other professional to enable patients / clients to be maintained in an appropriate environment, thus avoiding hospital admission.

To contribute to the maintenance and development of The Occupational Therapy profession within ICRAS and will facilitate effective learning within the area of practice for all students and practitioners.

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…