Overview
A Vacancy at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join the Trauma and Orthopaedic Therapy Service to provide Clinical Professional Leadership within the service.
This role involves both clinical and operational responsibilities, deputising for the Team Lead as appropriate. The successful candidate will provide a high quality, evidence based therapy service to patients admitted to hospital on a trauma and/or orthopaedic pathway. This will include, but is not exclusive to, trauma, major trauma, elective surgery, fractured neck of femur and amputee patients.
The post holder will provide highly specialist Occupational Therapist intervention for a caseload of Orthopaedic patients and offer advanced clinical reasoning within the specialism to support complex decision making. The successful candidate will be responsible for service development in line with current evidence based practice and have involvement in leading audit, education and training.
The JD & PS are currently under AfC review and are subject to change.
Responsibilities
* Provide clinical leadership and direction to the Trauma and Orthopaedic Team.
* Carry own caseload and oversee caseloads of clinical staff to provide high level clinical decision making in line with current evidence based practice.
* Deputise for the Team Lead as necessary in managing the operations of the team.
* Work towards service development in line with evidence based practice and involve in audit, education and training.
About the Trust
The Secretary of State has approved the partnership between St Helens & Knowsley and Southport & Ormskirk Hospitals. From 1 July we have come together as a single organisation under the name Mersey & West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
The Trust delivers acute hospital care, intermediate care, community and primary care services to a population of over 600,000 people with a combined workforce of around 9,000 staff across 17 locations including Whiston, Southport & Formby, St Helens, Ormskirk and Newton hospitals. The Trust provides regional services for burns, plastic surgery and spinal injuries to more than 4 million people across Mersey and West Lancashire, Cheshire, the Isle of Man and North Wales.
Our Vision is to deliver 5 Star Patient Care: CARE, SAFETY, COMMUNICATION, SYSTEMS and PATHWAYS as described in our Statement of Ambition.
Application information
Please see our Wellbeing & Benefits booklet for information on staff benefits. An accessible version is available upon request. Please see the job description for details of roles and responsibilities pertaining to the position.
Advert will close 13th November. Shortlisting from 14th November onwards. Interview week beginning 24th November.
For an informal discussion please contact Sharon Saunders at 01704 704147.
This advert closes on Thursday 13 Nov 2025.
#J-18808-Ljbffr