Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist

NHS; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Part time

Job summary

Join one of the UK's largest hospital Trusts as a Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist. This role offers the chance to enhance your clinical skills while working across diverse settings and specialties, including Oncology and Infectious Diseases, with a commitment to quality improvement and professional development.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a qualified therapist.
• Significant experience at Specialist level in relevant specialty.
• Evidence of continuous personal & professional development.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality care with a focus on quality improvement.
• Conduct cognitive and functional assessments.
• Provide mentorship and supervision to Therapy staff.

Skills

Excellent communication

Team-working

Leadership

Education

BSc in Occupational Therapy

Current HCPC Registration

Postgraduate Masters level module in relevant subject

Job description

Job summary

Are you a qualified Occupational Therapist with significant post graduate NHS experience looking for your next career step? Want to enhance your experience and lead clinical OT practise across different patients and care settings in one of the UK's largest hospital Trusts?

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist to work within our Specialised Medicine Therapy team based across the Royal Hallamshire Hospital and Weston Park Hospital.

As a Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist you will work alongside a team of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, and support staff, to deliver high quality care utilising quality improvement and evidence-based healthcare. This will include interventions around early assessment, re-enablement and discharge planning working closely with the MDT and utilising clinical reasoning skills for a complex and diverse case-mix of patients. This will include cognitive assessment, and functional assessment amongst other core occupational therapy skills. Covering a variety of different wards across the hospitals, this is great chance to work with a wide range of patients and develop your experience of different specialties, including Oncology, Haematology, Urology and Infectious Diseases.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for someone who has:

• Comprehensive post-registration experience including experience at specialist/senior level within an acute medical/oncology or surgical environment/speciality
• Sound knowledge, skills and experience in the education, training and development of pre-registration and post-registration learners
• Excellent communication and team-working skills
• A commitment to quality improvement, evidence-based healthcare and collective leadership

Opportunities:

The role offers the opportunity for an Occupational Therapist to grow their personal and professional development with both breadth and depth across a framework of clinical practice, education, leadership, and quality improvement & research.

There will be opportunities for:

• Supervision and mentorship of Therapy staff
• A variety of teaching/training commitments within the team, division and Acute Therapy Services
• Organisation of service delivery and selected line management responsibilities
• Participation in a range of clinical governance/assurance/management forums
• Service development

Therapy Services provides a number of services over 7 days (including Saturday, Sunday and bank holidays). Successful candidates may be expected to contribute to these rosters as part of their contracted hours.

About us

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

Details Date posted

13 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year pa/pro rata for part time staff

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

190-0174-DIR-A

Job locations

Royal Hallamshire Hospital

Glossop Road

Sheffield

S10 2JF

Job description Job responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

Job description Job responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• BSc in Occupational Therapy
• Current HCPC Registration
• Postgraduate Masters level module in relevant subject to this post or equivalent knowledge and skills accumulated through formal training and experiential learning

Desirable

• Masters degree in relevant Speciality

Experience Essential

• Extensive experience as a qualified therapist.
• Significant experience at Specialist level in relevant specialty
• Clinical Educator
• Participation in Clinical Audit & Practice Development
• Supervision and line management of Therapy staff including appraisal.
• Professional Presentations
• Experience in emergency respiratory on call including weekend work (PT only).

Desirable

• Member of Special Interest Group
• Governance
• Teaching

Further Training Essential

• Evidence of continuous personal & professional development
• Advanced clinical knowledge and skill in specialty
• Knowledge of evidence-base for specialty
• Good basic knowledge of therapy practice for medicine, orthopaedics, neurology

Desirable

• NVQ Assessor
• Clinical Governance
• Research, Clinical Audit or Practice
• Leadership
• Teaching
• Risk Assessment.

Specialist skills/Apptitudes Essential

• Excellent team working skills and the ability top work collaboratively
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, team working and leadership skills
• Excellent organisational skills, ability to act on own initiative, to prioritise work and manage multiple tasks for self and other.
• Ability to analyse complex problems, formulate solutions and implement sustainable change.
• Confident in working with a wide range of senior professionals
• Able to maintain confidentiality
• IT literate
• Understanding of stress and ability to help others to cope under pressure.

Other Factors Essential

• Confident & assertive
• Flexible and reliable approach to working practices
• Mature and positive attitude to change management
• Proactive approach to service delivery

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• BSc in Occupational Therapy
• Current HCPC Registration
• Postgraduate Masters level module in relevant subject to this post or equivalent knowledge and skills accumulated through formal training and experiential learning

Desirable

• Masters degree in relevant Speciality

Experience Essential

• Extensive experience as a qualified therapist.
• Significant experience at Specialist level in relevant specialty
• Clinical Educator
• Participation in Clinical Audit & Practice Development
• Supervision and line management of Therapy staff including appraisal.
• Professional Presentations
• Experience in emergency respiratory on call including weekend work (PT only).

Desirable

• Member of Special Interest Group
• Governance
• Teaching

Further Training Essential

• Evidence of continuous personal & professional development
• Advanced clinical knowledge and skill in specialty
• Knowledge of evidence-base for specialty
• Good basic knowledge of therapy practice for medicine, orthopaedics, neurology

Desirable

• NVQ Assessor
• Clinical Governance
• Research, Clinical Audit or Practice
• Leadership
• Teaching
• Risk Assessment.

Specialist skills/Apptitudes Essential

• Excellent team working skills and the ability top work collaboratively
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, team working and leadership skills
• Excellent organisational skills, ability to act on own initiative, to prioritise work and manage multiple tasks for self and other.
• Ability to analyse complex problems, formulate solutions and implement sustainable change.
• Confident in working with a wide range of senior professionals
• Able to maintain confidentiality
• IT literate
• Understanding of stress and ability to help others to cope under pressure.

Other Factors Essential

• Confident & assertive
• Flexible and reliable approach to working practices
• Mature and positive attitude to change management
• Proactive approach to service delivery

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details Employer name

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Hallamshire Hospital

Glossop Road

Sheffield

S10 2JF

Employer's website

https://www.sth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details Employer name

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Hallamshire Hospital

Glossop Road

Sheffield

S10 2JF

Employer's website

https://www.sth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)