Job Description

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.



The 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 1 st 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:

CARE that 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.



Advert will close 13th November



Shortlisting 14th November onwards



Interview week beginning 24th November



For an informal discussion please contact Sharon Saunders



01704 704147