Senior Occupational Therapist - Static Older People's Service
| Posting date: | 24 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £38,682.00 to £46,580.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £38682.00 - £46580.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 April 2026 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L9 7AL |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9287-26-0495 |
Summary
As a senior member of the team you will be given repsonsibility to support the leadership of the DMOPS therapy team, supervise junior staff and help devise and teach inservice trainings. You will also have opportunity to work alongside Physiotherapists in an Outpatient Falls Clinic completing visits in the community to help reduce further falls occuring. The team are passionate about providing the highest quality of care they can to the older population, holding high importance in upskilling staff to gain the knowledge they need, ensuring that staff are trained in areas such as Dementia, Parkinsons, Falls amongst others. Therapy Staff work closely with Geriatricians and the rest of the MDT ensuring that the best care for the older population in an acute environment is provided. The Aintree Hospital to Home team are a based in Aintree hospital but provide OT assessment and intervention for patients in their own environments once discharged from the Aintree inpatient bed base. The team are made up of Physiotherapists , Occupational Therapists and Therapy Support staff. 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. As one of the senior members of the team you would lead on discharge to assess visits, complex follow up visits and environmental visits to support patients to function well in their own environments. You would also supervise junior staff and support OT students. Please see separate Job Description attached and main duties stipulated above for further information.