Community Occupational Therapist - Crisis Service inTrafford inTrafford PUBLISHED WED 8 JAN 2025

Would you like to be part of a pioneering new NHS community care team, designed to keep people out of hospital and in their home?

Trafford Local Care Organisation is the partnership organisation that provides NHS community health services to the people of the borough. We work closely as NHS community health services and social care services in Trafford & Manchester We are driven by the aim of improving the health of local people in Trafford & Manchester by working across organisational boundaries.Our teams work as one in the neighbourhoods they serve - delivering and designing services in partnership with local people.

We have recently created a new service in Trafford called Trafford Community Response. TCR aims to reduce the need for people to go into hospital by wrapping expert care around them in the community. It's made up of two main parts - Community Crisis Response and Discharge to Assess.

The post holder will work in the Crisis team to provide a rapid assessment and stabilisation of patients who have urgent care needs in the community and to initiate services to safely avoid unnecessary hospitalisation. This will be through assessment and treatment of patients during a crisis, identifying complex and specialist needs and developing, implementing and evaluating programmes of care.

The post holder will provide highly specialist knowledge and clinical skills to ensure the delivery of care within the service and also in the wider community and across the acute / community interface. They will have a fundamental role in the delivery of high standards of care, ensuring an environment that is conducive to well-being.

To perform initial and profession specific specialist comprehensive assessment of patients with diverse physical, social & medical presentations to provide a clinical assessment and evidence based intervention and effective discharge management.

The role also involves;

For patients accepted into the Crisis Response Service, to develop a personalised treatment plan including predicted date of discharge within 48 hours

Hold responsibility for complex assessment and management and be aware of collective responsibility for the team's caseload, working without direct supervision. Clinical work and documentation will be routinely evaluated in line with Trust policy.

About us

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at

Were looking forward to hearing from you!