Senior Occupational Therapist | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Mansfield; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Mansfield is seeking a Senior Occupational Therapist to join their inpatient therapy team. The role involves providing high-quality care and rehabilitation for inpatients with complex needs. Candidates should have significant experience in occupational therapy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team. This position offers the opportunity to work in an award-winning NHS Trust recognized for its outstanding care.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in occupational therapy with complex patient needs.
• Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Strong motivation and enthusiasm for patient care.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality care and rehabilitation for inpatients.
• Assess, treat and facilitate discharge of patients.
• Collaborate with dedicated clinicians.

Skills

Person-centred care

Effective assessment

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Job description

Senior Occupational Therapist

Sherwood Forest Hospitals are seeking an enthusiastic, highly motivated Senior Occupational Therapist to work within the inpatient therapy team at Mansfield Community Hospital.

This is an exciting opportunity to work alongside specialist dedicated clinicians to provide high quality care and rehabilitation for our inpatients, with a diverse profile of need and conditions, through seamless multidisciplinary and partnership working.

The successful applicant must demonstrate a passion for person‑centred care and rehabilitation, with significant experience and skill to effectively assess, treat and facilitate discharge of patients with often complex needs. Enthusiasm, high motivation, excellent communication and organisational skills are essential, along with the ability to work as part of a multi‑disciplinary team.

All applications from overseas are welcome but relevant professional registration is required.

For more details, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

We are an award‑winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to ensure each patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically‑led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS‑run hospital in the East Midlands.

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

• Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs – GOV.UK
• Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

This advert closes on Thursday 20 Nov 2025.