Employer: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Liverpool University Hospital
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/11/2024 23:59
Senior Rotational Occupational Therapist
Band 6
Job overview
Are you passionate about patient care and looking for a new and exciting challenge? 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, including:
1. First Response
2. A&E
3. Reablement
4. Complex Rehabilitation
5. Critical care
6. General acute inpatients
You will have the opportunity to work across Aintree, Broadgreen, and the new state-of-the-art Royal Liverpool Hospital. Some specialties provide extended service hours, 8am-8pm seven days a week; therefore, flexible working arrangements can be considered to support work-life balance.
You will play a key role in completing skilled assessments 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 that delivers innovative, responsive services to meet both the needs of patients and the organization. The post holder will have clinical experience working with adults with complex presentations, particularly older people with multiple co-morbidities.
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 reviews 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 deputize for clinical team leads.
Working for our organization
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts: Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital, and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside and provides a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Diploma / Degree in Occupational Therapy or equivalent
* HCPC Registration
* Member of Special Interest group
Experience
* Post-registration experience in a junior rotational post providing a broad experience in musculoskeletal / medical surgical conditions
* Evidence of a contribution to clinical education of less experienced staff, students, or assistants
* Evidence of participation in audit
* Evidence of the advanced skills required to plan complex and rapid discharges
Knowledge
* Evidence of sound clinical knowledge and specialist skills relevant to the clinical caseload
* Broad knowledge of current best practice in Occupational Therapy
* Understanding of the legal responsibilities of the profession
Skills
* Ability to manage own workload, determine priorities, and delegate tasks
* Effective written and oral communication skills
* Ability to keep accurate legible patient notes
* Teaching / Presentations at In-Service level
* Able to evaluate and be critical of self
* Competent IT Skills
Other
* Flexible and open to change
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieving fair, equitable, and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment.
The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge, and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community.
This organization has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people, and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organization's safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.
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