Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist: critical care/surgery

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A large healthcare provider in Nottingham is seeking a Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist for a full-time position in Critical Care and Surgery. The successful candidate will focus on advanced assessments and patient rehabilitation, leading the clinical team. Applicants should possess significant experience in related specialties, including stroke and neuro. This position offers a salary of £47,810 to £54,710 per annum pro rata.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Personal development opportunities

Supportive working environment

Qualifications

• Wide-ranging experience in specialist area.
• Knowledge of NHS management processes.
• Ability to implement changes based on research.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical support to team members.
• Perform advanced patient assessments.
• Promote a rehabilitative approach across services.

Skills

Advanced assessments

Rehabilitation

Leadership

Communication

Education

BSc Hons Occupational Therapy

Registered with HCPC

Job description

Go back Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist: critical care/surgery

The closing date is 02 October 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an existing band 7 or experienced band 6 to join the Critical Care and Surgery Team, based at Nottingham City Hospital. This maternity cover, secondment/fixed term post is a full-time role of 37.5 hours working in a variety of specialities.

We are looking for a highly motivated and dynamic individual who is committed to leading on clinical practice, evolving the Occupational Therapy role and developing patient pathways. The successful candidate will be committed to providing high quality care and is required to demonstrate advanced level hyper-acute and acute assessments, interventions including rehabilitation. Stroke and/or neuro experience is essential for this role and experience of critical care is desirable.

The successful candidate will be responsible for leading and developing the team's clinical skills, providing strong leadership, teaching and service development. This role provides a good opportunity to develop across all pillars of practice whilst working within a supportive and motivated team.

The clinical areas covered in this role include: Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology, Critical Care, Upper GI Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, Infectious Diseases, Urology Surgery, Urology Medicine, Colorectal Surgery and Gynaecology Surgery.

The role also requires the individual to be an active member of the weekend working rota.

Main duties of the job

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details. The role includes, but is not limited:

• Demonstrating advanced level patient assessment and intervention as appropriate in the relevant areas (including hyper-acute assessments and rehabilitation)
• Promoting a rehabilitative approach across the service
• Leading and providing clinical support to all members of the team
• Supporting the team with cognitive assessments and rehabilitation, taking a creative approach e.g. for long stay critical care patients or those with hypoxic brain injury
• Providing supervision to staff members (including band 6, band 5, support workers and students)
• Undertaking relevant managerial and operational duties and responsibilities, balancing this with clinical tasks accordingly
• Working alongside Therapy Service Managers and senior OT colleagues to develop the service in line with evidence-based practice
• Supporting student placements within the team and provide formal and informal training
• Working as part of the multidisciplinary team in all clinical areas
• Contributing to the education of the team and wider MDT
• Ensuring that high quality evidence-based practice, service development and education underpin the service delivery
• Embedding NUH's values and behaviours within everyday practice

About us

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

The OT service is part of the Therapies, Outpatients and Phlebotomy Services (TOPS) Directorate, within the Specialist Clinical Services care group. We are a diverse directorate of AHPs, nursing and support staff, employing around 1000 staff, working together to deliver the high quality care we aspire to. Our HCPC registered AHP professionals comprise of physiotherapists, dietitians, occupational therapists, orthotists, prosthetists and speech and language therapists. We have a Chief AHP to lead us on our strategic direction, and many of the directorate leadership team have AHP backgrounds to support our staff. There are also Practice Development Therapists to support career development for all.

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the Job Description and Person Specification for further details around the post.

Fixed term contract or secondment for 12 months

Full time, 37.5h - core hours are Monday-Friday, 8am-4pm

Additional duties will include participation in weekend working, once every 6-8 weeks depending on service need.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• BSc Hons (or equivalent) Occupational Therapy
• Registered with Health and Care Professional Council (HCPC)
• Recognised postgraduate training relevant to speciality preferably, including MSc or completed modules

Experience

• Wide ranging and extensive experience of working within specialist area
• Knowledge of management processes to be able to provide 1st line management
• Able to evaluate current research and make recommendations for change in practice and implement these changes
• Have previously worked in the NHS

Communication and relationship

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to discuss treatment options and recommend best course of intervention to patients and carers using negotiating, persuasive, motivational and reassurance skills
• Communicate complex patient related information effectively to ensure collaborative working with MDT colleagues across health & social care sectors

Analytical and Judgement

• Able to reflect and critically appraise own performance and the performance of other staff
• Risk assessment skills for the safe management and discharge of very complex patients
• Analyse information from clinical assessments and make judgements about appropriate interventions for highly complex patients

Planning & Organisation

• Able to plan the delivery of a service for a specialist area where there is variable capacity and fluctuating demand
• Able to lead in the development, review and implementation of relevant polices and service development, recognising and responding to wider strategic concerns

Physical skills

• Able to handle and move complex patients safely and in a way which promotes rehabilitation if applicable.
• Able to use and/or manoeuvre a range of medical devices including, for example, handling/assistive and anthropometric equipment if applicable.

Other requirements

• Able to travel to required areas within and beyond the Trust
• Undertake out of hours duties (weekends, on calls and Bank Holidays) as required

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.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

£47,810 to £54,710 a yearper annum pro rata