Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- 12 months (fixed term maternity leave cover)
- Hours
- Part time - 19 hours per week (0.5WTE)
- Job ref
- 411-MED-25-7698093
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Alder Hey Children's Hospital
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/01/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Hand Occupational/ Physio Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
We are delighted to offer this opportunity for an experienced Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist to work within the Acute Integrated Therapy Team. The successful candidate will work within our Hand Therapy service, managing a caseload of hand trauma/plastics/congenital conditions.
To be a team member of Alder Hey’s Paediatric Therapy team and as such, carry a complex caseload across Plastics and support Burns patients requiring hand therapy, working in partnership with parents, carers education and other service providers to ensure a child centred approach to therapy.
To have responsibility for the delivery and co-ordination of high-quality Therapy to children with a range of conditions and presentations including (but not limited to), tendon repairs, nerve injuries, fractures, burns, congenital abnormalities, brachial plexus injuries, and trauma conditions.
Utilise a high level of knowledge developed through experience of scar management mobilisation, positioning, and splinting, treating a wide range of hand conditions and traumas.
To organise this caseload effectively and efficiently regarding clinical priorities, time, and staffing levels.
To act as a lead therapist to assess, diagnose/interpret and manage own specialist caseload of complex patients as an autonomous practitioner in accordance with the RCOT code of conduct and HCPC standards.
To work without direct supervision, formulating intervention plans based on advanced clinical reasoning skills.
Main duties of the job
Please see job description for further details.
· To be professional and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work including the management of caseload. To ensure a high standard of clinical care (for the patients under your management) to maximise function and independence. To have responsibility for the delivery and co-ordination of high-quality Occupational Therapy to children with a range of conditions and presentations within the clinical speciality.
· To carry out assessment of patients as an autonomous practitioner, including those with highly complex presentations, where expert opinion may differ, using clinical reasoning skills, knowledge of evidence based practice and expertise to determine appropriate care plans utilising highly specialist treatment skills and a wide range of treatment options.
· To contribute to accurate prognoses and recommend best course of intervention, developing comprehensive management plans, guided by clearly defined principles or occupational policies.
· To hold an independent, complex, and highly specialist caseload, being able to highly demonstrate specialist assessment, diagnostic, treatment, and management plans with goals based on advanced clinical reasoning skills. To provide specialist assessment and intervention across the identified speciality, delivering holistic assessment of the child’s needs and providing treatment programmes to meet the child’s rehabilitation needs.
Working for our organisation
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a major teaching hospital with 270 beds. It is a supra-regional centre for cardiac surgery, neurosurgery and Paediatric major trauma. Alder Hey is one of Europe’s busiest children’s hospitals and we care for over 270,000 young people and their families every year.
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is located in the vibrant city of Liverpool in the North West of England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and personal specification for further details.
Analytical skills
· To use theoretical knowledge and practical experience to interpret and analyse clinical diagnoses and presentations in a wide variety of complex conditions, where there may be conflicting evidence or where some information is unavailable.
· To work without direct supervision, formulating intervention plans based on advanced clinical reasoning skills. To interpret and analyse relevant clinical and non-clinical facts to inform accurate diagnosis and prognosis and to develop appropriate treatment plans for individual patients.
· To act as a lead therapist to assess, diagnose/interpret and manage own specialist caseload of complex patients as an autonomous practitioner in accordance with the RCOT code of conduct and HCPC standards.
· Utilise a high level of knowledge developed through experience, treating a wide range of conditions. Analyse and understand the impact on the child and family of various treatment plans/diagnosis from other disciplines. To interpret national and professional policies and implement within clinical area.
· To use specialised knowledge to interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical diagnoses in a wide variety range of highly complex conditions, where there may conflicting evidence or where some information is unavailable.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy
- HPC registration
- Significant experience in hand therapy
- Evidence of CPD, post registration educational and training
- Level 7 study or equivalent
- High level knowledge of a variety of assessments and treatment modalities
Desirable criteria
- Experience of Supervising Junior Staff and Students
- Knowledge of specialist paediatric approaches and high standard of performance in a range of general paediatric skills
- experience of audit
- evidence of relevant CPD
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Amy Humphreys
- Job title
- Deputy Head of Service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Jan Hunter and Abigail Bradshaw - Highly Specialist Occupational Therapists
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