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We have an exciting opportunity for an Occupational Therapist to join our Unplanned Care Therapy Team. The post holder will have the opportunity to gain experience in working across our busy A&E, Assessment areas including frailty at the front door.
There are opportunities to engage in training and development, innovative practice and service development.
You will have professional support for your CPD from Band 7 Therapy team Leaders and support from Senior Occupational Therapists from other specialities as required.
The post may also require working with the other inpatient therapy teams to provide senior therapy support.
We are looking for enthusiastic candidates to come and join our teams.
- Assesses and treats own caseload of patients / clients in a speciality and maintains associated records.
- To have a responsibility for Training & Development of occupational therapy staff, students and other staff groups in this speciality. Supervise less experienced occupational therapists, assistants and students.
- Participates as a member of the therapy team and the MDT within a specified clinical area.
- Has a responsibility re-own CPD and other developmental activities.
- Involvement in identifying and carrying out departmental audit, research or service development activity.
- Participates in weekend, evening and Bank Holiday on-call for acute respiratory patients.
- Participates in providing 7-day services and extended working day, as required by the service. (Our service works on extended hours rotas working between 8 am and 6pm.)
All new colleagues can expect to receive a warm and friendly Wirral welcome from the very first time they make contact with us. We are described as “competent and caring staff” by our patients.
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is situated on The Wirral peninsula which has a stunning coastline and beautiful countryside surroundings, with great activities for its residents.
We are one of the largest and busiest acute Trusts in the North West of England, comprising of the Wirral’s only Emergency Department. We provide a high quality range of acute care services and employ over 6,000 staff, who serve a population of approximately 400,000 people across Wirral, Ellesmere Port, Neston, North Wales and the wider North West footprint.
We have approximately 855 beds trust-wide and our financial turnover is in excess of £337m.
The Wirral is easily accessible with excellent transport links including motorway, train, bus or ferry and within easy reach to the major cities of Liverpool, Chester and Manchester as well as neighbouring North Wales.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Eleanor Brown Job title: Clinical Lead OT Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 0151 604 7032
