Advanced Occupational Therapist - T & O Therapy Service

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The closing date is 02 February 2026

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join the Trauma and Orthopaedic Therapy Service for 33 hours per week, 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.

JD & PS are currently under AfC review and are subject to change

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.

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.

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

• BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy or equivalent
• HCPC Registration
• Masters level clinical courses/ or equivalent
• Membership/participation of Special Interest Groups/Networks
• Professional Practice Educator Training/qualification
• Relevant management qualification or managerial specialist courses or equivalent

• Committed to personal and developmental development
• Able to work well with others and pass on skills and knowledge
• Able to maintain judgement under pressure and manage stress in others
• Have motivation, drive and enthusiasm
• Be able to deal with conflict resolution with staff, patients and members of the public
• Ability to be empathic and discuss sensitive issues
• Self-directed learning
• Clear vision of role and commitment to speciality and be able to represent the service and organisation at Trust initiatives and with outside agencies
• Good computer and telephone skills
• Evidence of advanced communication skills
• Initiate evidence bases practice within the clinical setting and develop local care pathways
• Demonstrate full awareness of clinical governance and its application in therapy

• Extensive clinical post-graduation experience of rehabilitation of patients in relevant speciality
• Extensive knowledge of the physical and psycho-social impact of stroke/neurological conditions
• Experience of working with multi professional groups involved in the care of adults and children with complex needs
• Operational management, development and supervision of junior staff, students and therapy assistants
• Experience of teaching multi professional staff, students, and peers
• Experience of service evaluations and audit processes
• Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio, including attendance of recent post graduate courses relevant to speciality
• Experience of joint working with external…