Overview
A vacancy at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. A new and exciting position has become available to work in the Department of Medicine for Older Peoples Therapy Service (DMOPS) at Aintree Hospital and in the Aintree Hospital to Home Service as part of an internal static rotation.
Role and Rotation
This Band 6 post will alternate every 9 months (in line with band 6 OT rotations) between DMOPS inpatients (including falls clinic) and Hospital to Home community working. You will work on older people’s inpatient wards, a falls outpatient setting and in the community through the Hospital to Home service.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide key OT assessment and treatment plans for patients on the DMOPS wards.
* Manage a complex caseload on acute DMOPS wards.
* Support the Falls Outpatient service by providing vital OT assessments and intervention in patients’ own environment.
* Complete Discharge to Assess visits, complex follow‑up visits and environmental visits to support discharge from the acute hospital.
* Manage designated case load with complex needs using evidence‑based/client‑centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
* Maintain records which fulfil legal requirements.
* Regularly supervise OT students.
* Provide leadership for junior staff through supervision and performance reviews.
* Contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust OT service.
About the Trust
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital. We are part of the NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the merger of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. For the 630 000 people across Merseyside, we provide general and emergency hospital care alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Additional Information
As a senior member of the team you will support the leadership of the DMOPS therapy team, supervise junior staff and help devise and teach in‑service training. You will also work alongside Physiotherapists in an Outpatient Falls Clinic, completing visits in the community to help reduce further falls occurring.
It is preferable that you can drive in order to support patients from Hospital to Home, as many visits are completed via a discharge to assess pathway with use of a Trust vehicle.
Please see the attached separate Job Description for further information.
This advert closes on Tuesday 7 Apr 2026.
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