Band 6 Occupational Therapist Acute Medical/Front Door Team
Location
Blackburn, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
9/12/2025
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Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated, dedicated and innovative Occupational Therapist to join our highly experienced and supportive Acute Medical and Front Door Team. This post will provide specialist patient care and treatment on the acute medicals wards and front door areas.
We are looking for an OT or Physio with a special interest in acute and emergency care patients, and experience in the assessment and treatment of these patients. You will have outstanding interpersonal skills and a passion for delivering excellent patient centered care to ensure the best possible outcomes for our patients.
Active involvement in training and development of yourself and others is a key requirement. You will participate in service improvement, new models of working, clinical audit, and continued professional development.
Within Acute Therapies we will offer professional support and an individualised job plan which includes protected service development time and regular clinical supervision. There will be opportunities to contribute to wider departmental developments via working party groups and signposting and support for continuous professional development.
If you are seeking the opportunity to develop in an acute therapy setting and are excited by a dynamic team and working environment then this role is definitely for you.
You will be expected to contribute to the weekend working service and, our emergency respiratory on-call rota (Physiotherapist).
Provide clinical/ treatment to acute patients within the scope of Occupational Therapy/Physiotherapy.
Assist in planning, monitoring and implementing clinical service policies and patient care pathways.
Be actively involved in developing teaching and training programmes for therapy staff.
Keep up to date with developments in acute medicine and emergency care, supporting audit to evaluate practice and participating in research as appropriate.
Work with all team disciplines to develop flexible inter-disciplinary / multi-agency work practices which enhance outcomes for patients.
Undertake a clinical case load, to a high professional standard, using knowledge from theoretical and practical experience.
Established in 2003 East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) is a large integrated health care organisation providing high quality acute secondary healthcare for the people of East Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen. We are committed to delivering the best possible healthcare services to the local population while ensuring the future viability of our services. This will be achieved by continually improving the productivity and efficiency of services. Our core focus has enabled demonstrable improvement in our key access, quality and performance indicators.
Our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 700,000 patients a year from the most serious of emergencies to planned operations and procedures. We employ over 8,000 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work and achievements.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Mary Fulforth Job title: Acute OT/PT Operational Service Lead Email address: [email protected]
We are looking for an OT or Physio with a special interest in acute and emergency care patients, and experience in the assessment and treatment of these patients. You will have outstanding interpersonal skills and a passion for delivering excellent patient centered care to ensure the best possible outcomes for our patients.
Active involvement in training and development of yourself and others is a key requirement. You will participate in service improvement, new models of working, clinical audit, and continued professional development.
Within Acute Therapies we will offer professional support and an individualised job plan which includes protected service development time and regular clinical supervision. There will be opportunities to contribute to wider departmental developments via working party groups and signposting and support for continuous professional development.
If you are seeking the opportunity to develop in an acute therapy setting and are excited by a dynamic team and working environment then this role is definitely for you.
You will be expected to contribute to the weekend working service and, our emergency respiratory on-call rota (Physiotherapist).
Provide clinical/ treatment to acute patients within the scope of Occupational Therapy/Physiotherapy.
Assist in planning, monitoring and implementing clinical service policies and patient care pathways.
Be actively involved in developing teaching and training programmes for therapy staff.
Keep up to date with developments in acute medicine and emergency care, supporting audit to evaluate practice and participating in research as appropriate.
Work with all team disciplines to develop flexible inter-disciplinary / multi-agency work practices which enhance outcomes for patients.
Undertake a clinical case load, to a high professional standard, using knowledge from theoretical and practical experience.
Established in 2003 East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) is a large integrated health care organisation providing high quality acute secondary healthcare for the people of East Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen. We are committed to delivering the best possible healthcare services to the local population while ensuring the future viability of our services. This will be achieved by continually improving the productivity and efficiency of services. Our core focus has enabled demonstrable improvement in our key access, quality and performance indicators.
Our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 700,000 patients a year from the most serious of emergencies to planned operations and procedures. We employ over 8,000 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work and achievements.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Mary Fulforth Job title: Acute OT/PT Operational Service Lead Email address: [email protected]
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