Specialist Occupational Therapist

NHS; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust offers an exciting opportunity for a Specialist Occupational Therapist to join their Acute Medicine Therapy team. The role involves delivering comprehensive assessments and interventions across multiple specialties, enhancing your skills in a supportive environment focused on patient care and professional development.

Benefits

In-service training programs

Support for postgraduate training

Friendly and supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and team working skills.
• Post-registration experience in complex patient caseload management.
• Continuous personal & professional development evidence.

Responsibilities

• Providing early assessment, intervention and discharge planning.
• Working with multidisciplinary teams in various wards.
• Managing complex and diverse case-mixes.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Clinical Reasoning

Education

BSc in Occupational Therapy or equivalent

Current HCPC registration

Short Specialist post-registration training programmes

Job description

Job summary

Are you a qualified NHS Occupational Therapist looking for your next career step? Want to enhance your experience across different patients, care settings and develop as a clinical leader in one of the UK's largest hospital Trusts?

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Specialist Occupational Therapist to work within our Acute Medicine Therapy team based across the Northern General and Royal Hallamshire Hospitals.

As a Specialist Occupational Therapist you will be working alongside a team of other, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and support staff, providing early assessment, intervention and discharge planning utilising their 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 Geriatric Medicine, Frailty, Parkinsons and Palliative Care.

Main duties of the job

Throughout your time you'll have the guidance and supervision of our clinical specialists and wider team, to offer you support, help you manage your caseload and complex patients, and help develop your specific area of interest and skills to further your career.

We also offer excellent in-service training programs to support staff to continue with postgraduate training and developing clinical and leadership skills, including developing and delivering education, supervision, mentorship, and service developments. There's also the chance to get involved in service improvement and research projects, new innovations and more. We're also proud to be a friendly, caring, and supportive team, who help each other to manage caseloads, deliver the best for our patients, and enjoy catching up over a social lunch, and the odd bake-off.

We're looking for someone who enjoys working in a multidisciplinary team to deliver the best possible care for patients, has excellent communication skills, and ideally has post-registration experience within an acute setting.

About us

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of 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

02 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year pa/ pro rata for part time staff

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

190-0389-DIR

Job locations

Northern General Hospital

Sheffield

S5 7AU

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 or equivalent
• Current HCPC registration
• Short Specialist post-registration training programmes

Experience Essential

• Post-registration experience of sufficient to acquire core competencies in Occupational Therapy practice for medical, surgical and neurological conditions and the knowledge and skill to manage a complex specialist caseload in the chosen field
• Post-registration NHS experience as an Occupational Therapist

Desirable

• Clinical Governance or Health & Safety, link worker
• Member of special Interest Group
• Fieldwork educators Course
• Clinical Effectiveness course/Project

Further Training Essential

• Evidence of continuous personal & professional development
• Good post-registration theoretical and practical knowledge of therapy practice in chosen field

Desirable

• Evidence-Based Practice
• Clinical Governance

Special Skills/apptitudes Essential

• Competency in occupational therapy clinical reasoning, processes & practices
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and team working skills
• Able to maintain confidentiality
• Able to act on own initiative, organise and prioritise work and manage multiple tasks
• Able to maintain accurate written records & statistics
• Calm approach to changing work situations
• Able to teach and motivate others

Desirable

• Understanding of therapy in an acute hospital
• IT literate
• Understanding of stress and ability to help others cope under pressure

Other Factors Essential

• Flexible and reliable approach to working practices
• Positive , proactive attitude to patient care and teamwork

Desirable

• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes.

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• BSc in Occupational Therapy or equivalent
• Current HCPC registration
• Short Specialist post-registration training programmes

Experience Essential

• Post-registration experience of sufficient to acquire core competencies in Occupational Therapy practice for medical, surgical and neurological conditions and the knowledge and skill to manage a complex specialist caseload in the chosen field
• Post-registration NHS experience as an Occupational Therapist

Desirable

• Clinical Governance or Health & Safety, link worker
• Member of special Interest Group
• Fieldwork educators Course
• Clinical Effectiveness course/Project

Further Training Essential

• Evidence of continuous personal & professional development
• Good post-registration theoretical and practical knowledge of therapy practice in chosen field

Desirable

• Evidence-Based Practice
• Clinical Governance

Special Skills/apptitudes Essential

• Competency in occupational therapy clinical reasoning, processes & practices
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and team working skills
• Able to maintain confidentiality
• Able to act on own initiative, organise and prioritise work and manage multiple tasks
• Able to maintain accurate written records & statistics
• Calm approach to changing work situations
• Able to teach and motivate others

Desirable

• Understanding of therapy in an acute hospital
• IT literate
• Understanding of stress and ability to help others cope under pressure

Other Factors Essential

• Flexible and reliable approach to working practices
• Positive , proactive attitude to patient care and teamwork

Desirable

• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes.

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

Northern General Hospital

Sheffield

S5 7AU

Employer's website

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

Employer details Employer name

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Northern General Hospital

Sheffield

S5 7AU

Employer's website

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