Band 7 Team Lead Occupational Therapist

• Do you have a passion for supporting people living with frailty to achieve their maximum independence and recovery following surgery?
• Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist with a strong rehabilitation background and a commitment to person-centred Care?
• Do you have the leadership skills to develop staff, improve services and drive innovation within a surgical therapy team

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly skilled, motivated and dynamic Band 7 Occupational Therapist to join the established Surgical Therapy Team at University Hospitals Liverpool Group. Based at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, you will lead the Occupational Therapy Service across a range of surgical specialties, including Urology, Colorectal, Hepato-Biliary, Upper GI, Ophthalmology and General Surgery. This role offers an excellent opportunity for a passionate Occupational Therapist with substantial post-registration surgical and rehabilitation experience to further develop their leadership and specialist clinical skills within a supportive and forward-thinking environment.

Working within an acute surgical setting, you will deliver evidence-based rehabilitation interventions to support recovery, maximise independence and improve outcomes for patients, including those living with frailty. You will play a key role in service development, including improving pathways for trauma outlier patients, driving quality improvement initiatives and influencing future service delivery.

The Royal Liverpool Hospital plays a key role in delivering high-quality healthcare across the city. The post holder will support the development of Occupational Therapy services in line with the trusts vision and values. The role involves providing expert assessment, treatment planning, clinical reasoning, risk management and problem-solving to maximise functional independence, reduce length of stay and support safe and timely discharge.

The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent communication, compassion, sound clinical judgement, flexibility and effective leadership skills. They will provide line management, supervision, appraisal and training for Band 6 and Band 5 Occupational Therapists, Therapy Assistants and students, with support from Therapy Managers. Working closely with Physiotherapy colleagues, the wider Critical Care and Respiratory therapy teams, multidisciplinary teams, patients, carers and external agencies, the post holder will contribute to service development, clinical governance, audit, research and quality improvement initiatives.

University Hospitals Liverpool Group is committed to supporting staff development. The post holder will have access to peer support and supervision from the Therapy Management Team and Band 7 peers across the Trust, with opportunities to attend relevant training, courses and leadership development programmes. Weekend working is required in line with service needs.

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 Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients…