Specialist Occupational Therapist | Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	13 Mawrth 2026
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£38,682 - £46,580 per annum
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	12 Ebrill 2026
Lleoliad:	Prescot, L35 5DR
Cwmni:	St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7826991/409-7826991

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Specialist Occupational Therapist - Band 6

Medical Specialities Therapy Team

Are you passionate about Occupational Therapy and thrive on utilising all your clinical skills to treat patients with multiple pathologies? Are you looking to develop your skills in a band 6 role? We have an exciting opportunity for a Specialist Occupational Therapist in the Acute Medicine Therapy Team

The teamcovers a range of 9 inpatient medical wards, with specialties including respiratory, gastroenterology, haematology, cardiology and general medicine, treating patients with a wide variety of conditions. You will get the chance to work in all areas and extend your knowledge and skills.

The ideal candidate will haveprevious experience relevant to this post with thespecialist knowledge and skills to enable clinically reasoned decision making. You should have effective communication skills and be committed to the delivery of quality care as part of the multi-disciplinary team, as well as being open in treatment approach to provide holistic patient intervention.


• A flexible approach to day-to-day tasks is essential to meet demands.The service operates over 7 days per week and the successful candidate will join the roster providing weekend cover.

In return for your hard work and dedicationwe can offer a very friendly and welcoming team, and support with continuing professional development. We have an innovative service of AHP’s, with an excellent staff supervision system enabling our staff to be committed to developing both their service and themselves. Clinical Governance, research and audit activities are encouraged within the service.

Current HCPC registration is essential. Interviews, medical checks, and DBS checks will be made prior to acceptance. The successful candidate will have a valid DBS check with the Trust or will be required to pay for the cost of the DBS disclosure, the cost of which will be deducted from their first salary

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

Our services:

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:
• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme.



Main Duties
• To be professional and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients/clients in your care.
• To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients/clients under your care, and support more junior staff to do likewise.
• To undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients/clients including those with diverse or complex presentations/multi pathologies; use specialist clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment techniques to provide an accurate diagnosis of their condition.
• Formulate and deliver an individual treatment programme using assessment, reasoning skills and treatment skills based on a sound knowledge of evidence based practice and treatment options. Formulate an initial diagnosis and prognoses in order to recommend best course of intervention and develop comprehensive discharge plans.
• To take delegated responsibility from the Band 7 clinician for managing patients/clients with particular conditions and be responsible for providing specialist assessment and treatment plans for patients with these conditions.
• Evaluate patient progress, reassess and alter treatment programmes as required.
• To have the ability to undertake self-directed/lone working in a variety of locations



Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for further details.

Advert Open 13th March, 2026 Advert Closes: 4th April 2026 Date of Interview: 13th April 2026


This advert closes on Thursday 2 Apr 2026

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