Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Support
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Post will include rota shift patterns between 8- 6pm including 10 hour shifts)
- Job ref
- 408-25-681
- Employer
- Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Arrowe Park Hospital
- Town
- Wirral
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Senior Occupational Therapist- Unplanned Care
Band 6
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Job overview
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 and support 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.)
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main 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
Essential criteria
- 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
- Previous care experience
- Experience working as part of multidisciplinary team
Desirable criteria
- 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
- Student Educator Course
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- 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
Essential criteria
- Ability to be flexible and adaptable in order to support others and needs of the service
- Good organisational skills
Desirable criteria
- Ability to show initiative but understanding when to refer to trained staff
- Ability to organise own workload and administrative procedures
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
- Eleanor Brown
- Job title
- Clinical Lead OT
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 604 7032
- Additional information
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