Band 7 Team Lead Occupational Therapist

The post offers an excellent opportunity for a confident and compassionate Occupational Therapist with substantial post-registration acute surgical and rehabilitation experience to further develop their leadership and specialist clinical skills within a supportive and forward-thinking environment. The post holder will work within a fast-paced, high-functioning multidisciplinary team, providing specialist clinical input across the patient pathway for complex surgical patients, particularly those living with frailty., The post holder will provide high-level assessment, treatment planning, clinical reasoning, risk identification and problem-solving to optimise functional independence, support admission avoidance where appropriate, reduce length of stay, facilitate safe and timely discharge, and minimise the risk of re-admission. A strong interest in rehabilitation is desirable as alongside discharge planning, the post holder will support many long stay patients with complex medical needs, including critical care step downs.

The successful candidate will be expected to demonstrate sound clinical judgement, excellent communication skills, a flexible and solution-focused approach, and effective people management skills.

The post holder will have line management responsibilities, including training, appraising and managing Band 6 Occupational Therapists, Band 5 Occupational Therapists, Therapy Assistants and students, with support from Therapy Managers.

The post holder will work collaboratively with Physiotherapy colleagues, the wider Critical Care and Respiratory teams, external agencies, patients, families and carers. They will also contribute to service development, clinical governance, audit, research and quality improvement activity within the surgical therapy service.

The working pattern includes some weekend working in line with service requirements.

The Team Lead Occupational Therapist role includes both clinical and non-clinical responsibilities and therefore requires excellent organisational, planning, prioritisation and time management skills.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospitalis the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility.Broadgreen Hospitalis home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women's Hospitalspecialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospitalis the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.