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Job overview

Come and join us at Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals. 

This is an exciting opportunity for an Occupational Therapist, to join the surgical and respiratory team, and develop their skills in this specialist area.

The team is multi-professional consisting of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Assistants, and provides therapy to the surgical and respiratory wards, including intensive care.

If you are ready to take the next step in your career this is opportune for you.  On joining the team as a Band 5 Occupational Therapist, you will be provided with a 6-month competency training programme. Successful completion of this will enable you to progress into the Band 6 role.

Within the immediate team and the wider therapies department you will have opportunities to continually develop your clinical skills, but also in areas such as quality improvement, audits, and research. 

So, if you are highly motivated, enjoy working in an interprofessional environment and committed to providing high quality care, we would like to welcome you to our friendly therapy team.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will manage a caseload, working across the surgical and respiratory wards, including the acute respiratory unit and gastroenterology wards. 

Collaborative working is key to the role, as the postholder will be working with fellow AHPs and the wider multi-discipline team, including community services. 

The successful candidate will have excellent organisational and time management skills in order to work within the demands of a busy service.

The successful post holder will be expected to provide supervision and support to junior members of the team and engage in quality improvement and service development initiatives.

Expectation is that over a 6-month period the post holder will have training to achieve Band 6 competencies. On successful completion of these, the postholder will become a substantive Band 6

The working hours for this post is 37.5 hours over 5 days Mondays to Fridays. In the future it will include supporting seven day working. 

Working for our organisation

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff.  We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.

Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system.  Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.

Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.

A CQC-rated ‘good’ organisation with ‘outstanding’ features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.

Our workforce of nearly 5,000 across both sites comprises more than 50 nationalities. We strive to be an equal, diverse and inclusive employer, which is recognised as a pioneer in its equality, diversity and inclusion work. The Trust is proud to have achieved numerous external accreditations and is working towards achieving the Anti-Racist Organisation Framework, recognising the importance of anti-racism in all that we do.