Advanced Occupational Therapist

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Advanced Occupational Therapist

The closing date is 28 September 2025

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join the Trauma and Orthopaedic Therapy Service to provide Clinical Professional Leadership within the service.

This role involves both clinical and operational responsibilities, deputising for the Team Lead as appropriate. The successful candidate will provide a high quality, evidence based therapy service to patients admitted to hospital on a trauma and/or orthopaedic pathway. This will include, but is not exclusive to, trauma, major trauma, elective surgery, fractured neck of femur and amputee patients.

The post holder will provide highly specialist Occupational Therapist intervention for a caseload of Orthopaedic patients and offer advanced clinical reasoning within the specialism to support complex decision making.

The successful will be responsible for service development in line with current evidenced based practice and have involvement in leading audit, education and training.

Main duties of the job

To provide clinical leadership and direction to the Trauma and Orthopaedic Team. To carry own caseload and oversee caseloads of clinical staff to provide high level clinical decision making in line with current evidence based practice. The post holder will deputise for the Team Lead as necessary in managing the operations of the team.

About us

The Secretary of State has approved the partnership between St Helens & Knowsley and Southport & Ormskirk Hospitals.

From 1st July we have come together as a single organisation under the name Mersey & West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

The Trust delivers acute hospital care, intermediate care, community, and primary care services to a population of over 600,000 people with a combined workforce of around 9000 dedicated and skilled staff from 17 locations including Whiston, Southport & Formby, St Helens, Ormskirk and Newton hospitals.

The Trust provides regional services for burns, plastic surgery and spinal injuries to more than 4 million people across Mersey and West Lancashire, Cheshire, the Isle of Man and North Wales.

Our Vision is to deliver 5 Star Patient Care:

- CAREthat is evidence based, high quality and compassionate
- SAFETY that is of the highest standards
- COMMUNICATION that is open, inclusive and respectful
- SYSTEMS that are efficient, patient centred and reliable
- PATHWAYS that are best practice and embedded, but also respect the individual needs of patients

Our achievements include:

- Trust rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- Awarded National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for our Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

Please see our Wellbeing & Benefits booklet for more information on our staff benefits. Accessible version available upon request.

Job responsibilities

Please see job description for details of roles and responsibilities pertaining to position.

For an informal discussion please contact Sharon Saunders

01704 704147

Person Specification

Qualifications

- Degree in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC Registration
- Leadership Qualification or Equivalent Experience
- Clinical Educator Qualification
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development

Knowledge and Skills

- Extensive post-graduate Orthopaedic Experience
- Experience in Leadership
- Experience of Service Development
- Involvement in Research and Audit

Skills and Abilities

- Ability to initiate evidence based practice within clinical area and demonstrates experience in developing local care pathways
- Teaching and Presentation Skills
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work closely with the MDT.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

£47,810 to £54,710 a yearper annum pro rata

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