Job Overview:
Main area: Occupational Therapy
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract: 12 months (fixed term maternity leave cover)
Hours: Part time - 19 hours per week (0.5WTE)
Job ref: 411-MED-25-7698093
Site: Alder Hey Children's Hospital
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £47,810 - £54,710 pro rata per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 13/01/2026 23:59
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundat
We are delighted to offer this opportunity for an experienced Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist to work within the Acute Integrated Therapy Team. The successful candidate will work within our Hand Therapy service, managing a caseload of hand trauma/plastics/congenital conditions.
To be a team member of Alder Hey’s Paediatric Therapy team and as such, carry a complex caseload across Plastics and support Burns patients requiring hand therapy, working in partnership with parents, carers education and other service providers to ensure a child centred approach to therapy.
To have responsibility for the delivery and co-ordination of high-quality Therapy to children with a range of conditions and presentations including (but not limited to), tendon repairs, nerve injuries, fractures, burns, congenital abnormalities, brachial plexus injuries, and trauma conditions.
Utilise a high level of knowledge developed through experience of scar management mobilisation, positioning, and splinting, treating a wide range of hand conditions and traumas.
To organise this caseload effectively and efficiently regarding clinical priorities, time, and staffing levels.
To act as a lead therapist to assess, diagnose/interpret and manage own specialist caseload of complex patients as an autonomous practitioner in accordance with the RCOT code of conduct and HCPC standards.
To work without direct supervision, formulating intervention plans based on advanced clinical reasoning skills.