Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 190-9091-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lightwood House
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 pa/pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/11/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 18/11/2025
Employer heading
Senior Occupational Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 6
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
An unexpected opportunity has arisen for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join the dedicated therapy team working into Sheffield Intermediate Care Rehabilitation Beds service.
The team currently provides therapy and nursing input into 98 beds based within 3 different care homes throughout the city.
Our caseload is referred into us from Acute trust wards and often have complex medical history including fractures, frailty, respiratory, cardiac conditions, amputees and neurology. Our patients are with us for a short term rehab program and needs assessment to facilitate returning home as quickly as possible, facilitating discharge from hospital, ensuring their future needs are met.
Applicants should have advanced discharge planning skills and be an exemplary team worker. You should have good communication skills and be comfortable in dealing with multiple agencies and families to facilitate a co-ordinated, safe and effective discharge. Experience working with patients with delirium/dementia would be advantageous.
Main duties of the job
To manage a caseload of Intermediate Care Unit based patients with complex needs, using specialist skills and evidence based/patient centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
To supervise/train inexperienced junior staff and rehabilitation assistants working within the service.
To provide supervision of students on practice placement.
To participate in the planning, delivery and evaluation of Intermediate Care services within a designated area/team, holding responsibility for defined projects.
To be an active member of the inter-disciplinary Intermediate Care team in the provision of patient-centred care.
To develop and provide clinical expertise in a designated specialism and participate in the dissemination of evidence based practice across the service.
Full time working week ideal, part time 30 hours (0.8 WTE) may be considered.
Working for our organisation
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.
The team is spread across 3 care homes in the city and work very holistically in a supportive team environment to maximise the outcomes for our patients. We work closely with Physiotherapy and nursing colleagues as well as staff from private sector care homes
With a Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist in post this is an exciting time as the profession is developing and expanding within Intermediate Care. We have a strong emphasis on personal development, to improve ourselves and the service we offer.
Regular supervision and appraisal is offered to all in the team, to build a better service for the patients who we care for.
Detailed job description and main 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 criteria
- BSc in Occupational Therapy or equivalent
- Current HCPC registration
- Short Specialist post-registration training programmes in relevant subject areas
- Evidence of continuous Professional Development in relevant areas via personal development plans/file
Desirable criteria
- First line management / Leadership course at masters level.
- Relevant validated clinical courses to Masters level or equivalent knowledge / experience
- Student educator qualifications
Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of occupational therapy in elderly rehabilitation and ability to apply this in Rehabilitation Unit/ community setting
- Broad clinical knowledge of a range of conditions affecting client group in the frail elderly/ortho-medical pathway and their therapeutic management.
- Experience of working with multi agencies.
- To have experience in supervising staff through appraisal process
- Detailed knowledge of the principles of clinical governance and its application
- Working knowledge of standards and guidelines relating to occupational therapy practice with this client group.
- Knowledge of the local and National priorities for Intermediate Care Services, NHS structures and commissioning.
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate experience in Older persons rehabilitation
- Post graduate experience in Orthopaedics
- To have worked in the community environment
- A working knowledge of the needs of patients with mental health issues.
Special Skills/Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Significant post graduate experience of occupational therapy rehabilitation in clinical speciality.
- Experience of supervising / managing / developing junior staff, rehabilitation assistants through PDR and teaching
- Experience of audit.
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Analytical clinical assessment, diagnostic and treatment skills relevant to clinical area to facilitate appropriate management though discharge from the service.
- Ability to work autonomously under pressure and prioritise.
- To have highly developed verbal and non verbal communication skills using motivation, explanation and reassurance to agree engage patients and carers in their treatment programmes
- Organisational skills to manage yourself and other supervised staff to contribute to service delivery.
- Computer Literate with excellent written and oral presentation skills.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Paul McLaughlin
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07342700493
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