Employer The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Liverpool Town Liverpool Salary £38,682 - £46,580 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 07/12/2025 23:59
Occupational Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 6
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Job overview
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Due to internal promotion, we have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated Occupational Therapist to join our innovative and forward thinking team of Allied Health Professionals at Clatterbridge Cancer Centre.
As one of the UKs leading Cancer Centres, we provide highly specialist cancer care to a population of over 2.7 million people across Cheshire and Merseyside, and surrounding areas including North Wales and the Isle of Man.
We are seeking a suitably experienced Occupational Therapist who demonstrates our Trust values of being: Kind, Empowered, Inclusive and Responsible. You will have a varied and diverse caseload, supporting our Oncology patients to live well, with and beyond Cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will be supported by our wider Occupational Therapy team, consisting of 2.5 Band 7s, 2.5 Band 6s, plus Therapy Assistants who work across our OT and Physiotherapy teams.
Clatterbridge Cancer Centre is committed to flexible ways of working that balance the needs of our patients and our staff. The successful candidate will be based at our Liverpool site, which was newly opened in 2020 and provides a modern work environment.
Our Band 6 Therapists are crucial members of the team, providing high quality, evidence based Occupational Therapy interventions for people living with Cancer. Duties may include:
* Conducting comprehensive Occupational Therapy assessments such as baseline assessments, functional assessments, cognitive assessments
* Developing and implementing individualised and holistic treatment plans in conjunction with patients
* Assessing environmental risks and prescription of equipment and adaptations to support patients to live well at home
* Taking a key role in organising and facilitating discharge planning
* Representing the Occupational Therapy team in Multidisciplinary team meetings and Boardrounds
* Promoting the OT role through training of the wider Multidisciplinary team
* Maintaining a high standard of clinical record keeping in accordance with HCPC guidelines
* Adhering to local and national guidelines and protocols
Working for our organisation
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s leading cancer centres providing highly specialist cancer care to a population of 2.4m people across Cheshire and Merseyside, and the surrounding areas, including North Wales and the Isle of Man.
Our vision is to not only maintain this level of commitment to excellence but to work with our academic and healthcare partners across the region to ensure care, treatment and patient outcomes continuously improve in the future. We are very proud of all our expert and loyal staff and we welcome people who share the collective aim of delivering excellence in everything that we do.
Our values represent who we are and what we believe in. They define how we act to deliver the best possible care for our patients and shape The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre as a great place to work.
We are -
* Kind
* Empowered
* Responsible
* Inclusiv e
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details about this exciting role on offer at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Degree OR Diploma in Occupational Therapy
* Registration with Health and Care Professions Council
* Evidence of continuing professional development
Knowledge and Expertise
* Proven experience of working with patients with physical health conditions
* Ability to conduct and analyse standardised and non standardised assessment tools with Occupational Therapy
* Ability to assess for and prescribe or advise on adaptive equipment, assistive devices, and wheelchairs
* Ability to work autonomously
* Awareness of occupational therapy equipment and clinical reason(s) for use
* Knowledge, understanding and application of Occupational Therapy process within the field of Oncology
* Knowledge of orthotics and/or splinting principles and availability to prevent deformity and manage pain and function
* Experience working in outpatients setting
Experience
* Varied post registration clinical experience working with patients with physical health conditions
* Experience in supervision / mentoring of junior staff, assistants and students
* Oncology and/or palliative care experience
* Experience of acute inpatient care of people experiencing neurological or orthopaedic deficits
* Participation in audit
* Experience working with a varied MDT
If you are successfully shortlisted, you will be invited for an interview via email. Please ensure you regularly check your emails (including junk folders) following your application and let us know if you have any problems. If you would prefer for us to communicate with you in a different way, or need adjustments to the interview process, please contact the Recruitment Team on 0151 556 5176 or ccf-tr.recruitment@nhs.net .
The cost of processing a new DBS application is met by the successful applicant. DBS costs are recovered via salary deduction following commencement in post - further details including cost are available from the Recruitment Team. It is a Trust recommendation that candidates requiring a DBS check subscribe to the DBS Update Service - further details are available here - https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service. Candidates who withdraw post-DBS submission will be invoiced for the full cost of the check including administration fee.
The Trust takes active responsibility for meeting national guidance and legal requirements in relation to our Safeguarding Policy, including local arrangements for the protection of adults at risk.
The Trust is committed to providing high standards of both patient and staff experience. To support us in doing this the Trust, in partnership with Trade Unions has developed and embedded key values and behaviours that all staff are required to demonstrate throughout their employment. The Trust's values and behaviours support the Trust Vision 'to provide the best cancer care to the people we serve' and our Mission 'to improve health and wellbeing through compassionate, safe and effective cancer care'.
We promote and support diversity in our workforce. The Trust have staff networks for LGBTQ+, disability and long terms conditions, international and ethnically diverse staff and a menopause network. The Trust also hold Disability Confident Level 2 Status and provide supporting policies and processes to enable staff with disabilities and long term conditions to work in a way that best meets their needs.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
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