Band 7 Team Lead Occupational Therapist

Job overview

• Do you have a passion for supporting people living with frailty to achieve their maximum independence and recovery following surgery?
• Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist with a strong rehabilitation background and a commitment to person-centred Care?
• Do you have the leadership skills to develop staff, improve services and drive innovation within a surgical therapy team

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly skilled, motivated and dynamic Band 7 Occupational Therapist to join the established Surgical Therapy Team at University Hospitals Liverpool Group. Based at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, you will lead the Occupational Therapy Service across a range of surgical specialties, including Urology, Colorectal, Hepato-Biliary, Upper GI, Ophthalmology and General Surgery. This role offers an excellent opportunity for a passionate Occupational Therapist with substantial post-registration surgical and rehabilitation experience to further develop their leadership and specialist clinical skills within a supportive and forward-thinking environment.

Working within an acute surgical setting, you will deliver evidence-based rehabilitation interventions to support recovery, maximise independence and improve outcomes for patients, including those living with frailty. You will play a key role in service development, including improving pathways for trauma outlier patients, driving quality improvement initiatives and influencing future service delivery.

Main duties of the job

The Royal Liverpool Hospital plays a key role in delivering high-quality healthcare across the city. The post holder will support the development of Occupational Therapy services in line with the trusts vision and values. The role involves providing expert assessment, treatment planning, clinical reasoning, risk management and problem-solving to maximise functional independence, reduce length of stay and support safe and timely discharge. The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent communication, compassion, sound clinical judgement, flexibility and effective leadership skills. They will provide line management, supervision, appraisal and training for Band 6 and Band 5 Occupational Therapists, Therapy Assistants and students, with support from Therapy Managers. Working closely with Physiotherapy colleagues, the wider Critical Care and Respiratory therapy teams, multidisciplinary teams, patients, carers and external agencies, the post holder will contribute to service development, clinical governance, audit, research and quality improvement initiatives. University Hospitals Liverpool Group is committed to supporting staff development. The post holder will have access to peer support and supervision from the Therapy Management Team and Band 7 peers across the Trust, with opportunities to attend relevant training, courses and leadership development programmes. Weekend working is required in line with service needs.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See Job Description for further information:

To undertake assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentations/multiple pathologies using advanced clinical reasoning skills and manual assessment techniques to clinically diagnose

Implement evidence based treatment plans with regards to physical, cognitive, perceptual, psychological and social functioning.

Deliver and evaluate treatment programmes according to health care needs using a comprehensive range of treatment options.

To advise, assist and educate band 5 and band 6 OTs and Student OT's.

Occupational Therapists on the management of clinically complex patients.

To be responsible for the supervision of Students and Assistants within own team.

To provide Therapy Lead with relevant information for the planning and development of the unit.

To ensure where necessary the provision of staff cover within own clinical team in times of annual leave/sickness etc.

To assist the Managers in achieving the departmental objectives and promoting an open style of management.

To participate in the professional development programme of the Occupational Therapy Department.

Co-ordinate the effective day to day running of own team and ensure effective dissemination of information.

To participate in the recruitment and selection of therapy staff under the guidance of Therapy Lead.

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.

Through the course of your employment you may become aware of information concerning patients or staff. All such information must be treated as confidential. Breach of this confidence may result in dismissal.

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.