Senior Occupational Therapist

Job overview

Are you passionate about patient care and are looking for a new and exciting challenge? Come and join our innovative, supportive and highly skilled Occupational Therapy Team at Liverpool University Hospital Foundation Trust!

Some of these teams provide a service over seven days a week.

The successful applicant will be responsible for the delivery of hig quality, patient-centred care. Working with the MDT, you will have a key role in promoting recovery through specialist assessment, reasoning and intervention. Skills in risk assessment and problem solving are essential to manage complex discharges, efficient flow and to prevent hospital related deconditioning.

We are committed to staff development and training. You will have peer support, access to regular supervision and support from Team Leaders and Clinical Specialists.

This opportunity is open to both existing Band 6s and experienced Band 5s who are keen to develop into a band 6 role via a training route if appropriate (Annex 21).

Main duties of the job

The role will involve:

Managing a defined caseload - specialist assessment and intervention to facilitate physical and cognitive rehabilitation and reablement.

Discharge planning - prescription and provision of equipment, liaison with external agencies

Participation in CPD activity

Teaching and supervision of more junior colleagues and OT students

Supporting the leadership team in the day to day running of services

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of roles and responsibilities

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This post will be subject to an enhanced disclosure check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)

This job description is intended as a general guide to the duties and responsibilities of the post and not a rigid, inflexible specification. It may be subject to revision to meet the changing needs of the service, following consultation with the post holder.

If unsuccessful at interview for this position there may be other Band 6 Occupational Therapy opportunities to offer within the Care Group. This may include working at an alternative hospital site.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Diploma / Degree in Occupational Therapy or equivalent
• HCPC Registration

• Member of Special Interest group

Experience

• Post registration experience in a junior rotational post providing a broad experience in musculoskeletal / medical surgical conditions
• Evidence of a contribution to clinical education of less experienced staff, students or assistants
• Evidence of participation in audit
• Evidence of the advanced skills required to plan complex and rapid discharges

Knowledge

• Evidence of sound clinical knowledge and specialist skills relevant to the clinical caseload
• Broad knowledge of current best practice in Occupational Therapy
• Have an understanding of the legal responsibilities of the profession

Skills

• Ability to manage own work load, determine priorities and delegate tasks
• Effective written and oral communication skills
• Ability to keep accurate legible patient notes
• Teaching / Presentations at In – Service level
• Able to evaluate and be critical of self

• Competent IT Skills

Other

• Flexible and open to change

Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.

Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months’ of their 18^th birthday.

Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Bank posts require upfront payment. DBS applications submitted from 2nd December will be subject to the new DBS fee of £26.50 (standard) and £54.50 (Enhanced).

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.

Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.

All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.