An exciting opportunity has arisen for a skilled, motivated Band 7 OT to join the Acute Intervention Team at UHLG to cover Maternity Leave for 9 months.
You will be based in the Royal Liverpool Hospital and will be responsible for leading a team within Medicine - specialties include Cardiology, Infectious Diseases, Gastroenterology, Gerontology, Nephrology, Diabetes and Palliative Care. You should have a strong clinical background, knowledge and skills acquired across a variety of settings. Experience in medical settings is essential.
The role is patient and non-patient facing and you should have excellent organisational, planning and time management skills. You will be part of a high functioning MDT, which includes a supportive team of Band 7 staff, providing specialist clinical contribution to the patient journey with high level assessment and treatment planning for complex medical patients.
You must have strong leadership, people management and supervision skills. You will be required to demonstrate a commitment to service development, audit and research.
We are committed to staff development; you will have access to peer support and supervision from the Therapy Management Team and other Band 7 peers across the Trust. You will be supported to attend courses and training including leadership development.
You will have a key role in high level clinical assessment, treatment planning, reasoning, risk identification and problem solving to enable patients to optimise functional independence, avoid admission or reduce length of stay and to support patient discharge at the earliest safe opportunity and to minimise the risk of re-admission.
To manage, train, appraise and supervise Band 6 Occupational Therapist, Band 5 Occupational Therapists, Students, Therapy Assistants, Work Experience and Healthcare Cadets under the guidance of Therapy Managers and Clinical Specialists
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.
Staff are required to work flexibly, to support 7 day services and shift patterns over an extended working day.
Part time and flexible working patterns may be considered.
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.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. 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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Martin Schofield Job title: Therapy Lead Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 07768558272
