Senior Occupational Therapist- Unplanned Care

Integrated Care System; Wirral; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Wirral is seeking a Senior Occupational Therapist to join their Unplanned Care Therapy Team. Role involves patient assessment, staff training, and participation in service development. Candidates should have an Occupational Therapy degree, HCPC registration, and experience in multidisciplinary teams. Professional development opportunities and flexible hours included.

Benefits

Professional development support

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• HCPC registration required.
• Experience as a qualified Occupational Therapist is essential.
• Experience supervising junior or non-qualified staff is important.

Responsibilities

• Assess and treat a caseload of patients/clients while maintaining records.
• Train and develop occupational therapy staff and students.
• Participate in departmental audits and service development.

Skills

Clinical reasoning

Excellent communication skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Education

Graduate Diploma or BSc Occupational Therapy

HCPC registration

Tools

Hospital computer systems

Job description

Go back Wirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Senior Occupational Therapist- Unplanned Care

The closing date is 21 August 2025

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 andsupport 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.

Main duties of the job

- 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.)

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job description for further information about the Senior Occupational Therapist position available with WUTH.

If successful in this role, there is a requirement for you to have an enhanced DBS. This will be paid for by the Trust and then deducted from your salary over a period of 3 month.

Person Specification

Qualifications, Specific Experience & Training

• Graduate Diploma or BSc Occupational Therapy or equivalent qualification recognised by HCPC (or student Occupational Therapist with qualification pending)
• HCPC registration
• Appropriate experience as a qualified Occupational Therapist
• Core Rotations as a Band 5 Therapists in a range of core areas: Orthopaedics, Medical or Frailty Inpatients, Neurological Rehabilitation
• Experience working as part of multidisciplinary team
• Member of Royal College of Occupational Therapists or similar
• High level of clinical reasoning with excellent theoretical knowledge underpinning practice
• Demonstrate a good awareness of needs of patient and appropriate action to take
• Demonstrate awareness of the roles of others in providing patient care and ability to work as an effective team member
• Experience supervising junior, students or non-qualified staff

Knowledge and Skills

• Basic computer skills
• Well developed theoretical knowledge under pinning Occupational Therapy practice
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Good analytical, problem solving and clinical reasoning skills
• Knowledge and experience in hospital computer system
• Ability to communicate within difficult circumstances and demonstrate empathetic approach to patients.
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal), analytical, problem solving skills and clinical reasoning
• Understanding of national issues and relating them to own clinical practice

Personal Attributes

• Ability to be flexible and adaptable in order to support others and needs of the service
• Good organisational skills
• Ability to show initiative but understanding when to refer to trained staff
• Ability to organise own workload and administrative procedures

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Wirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust