Senior Rotational 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!

We have an exciting opportunity for enthusiastic, forward-thinking Occupational Therapists to join our Band 6 rotation programme.  LUHFT has experienced and highly skilled Therapists working in a wide range of areas and this post will include working in specialities such as:

Major Trauma

First Response

A&E

Stroke pathway (hyperacute, rehab, ESD)

Reablement

Complex Rehabilitation

Critical care

General acute inpatients

Outpatients

You will have the opportunity to work across Aintree, Broadgreen and the new state-of-the-art Royal Liverpool Hospital.  Some specialities provide extended service hours, 8am-8pm seven days a week, therefore flexible working arrangements can be considered to support work-life balance.

You will have a key role in completing skilled assessment and clinical reasoning to provide treatment, promote recovery, risk assess and problem solve to arrange complex discharges at the earliest and safest opportunity.

We are committed to staff development and training including leadership. You will have peer support, access to regular supervision and support from the Band 7s/8as.

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

We wish to recruit an experienced clinician who has a clear understanding of the developing role of Occupational Therapy within integrated therapy services, and the ability to support leadership of a team which delivers innovative, responsive services to meet both the needs of patients and the organisation. The post holder will have clinical experience working with adults with complex presentations, in particular older people with multiple co-morbidity.

The role requires excellent communication skills and the ability to work as an effective member of the wider team as well as with other external agencies. You will be required to participate or lead on service review in order to identify service development needs and support the band 7 in delivering this while meeting clinical service demands

We have regular team meetings and are committed to continuing professional development. We have a clear supervision structure and advice is available from our highly skilled Band 7s and 8as within the departments.

Band 6 employees are required to supervise Band 5 and assistant staff, and deputise for clinical team leads.

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.