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Job summary

Main area
Occupational Therapy
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
190-1028-DIR
Employer
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
Town
Sheffield
Salary
£31,049 - £37,796 pa/pro rata for part time staff
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
09/11/2025 23:59
Interview date
17/11/2025

Employer heading

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Static Occupational Therapist

NHS AfC: Band 5

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 opportunity has arisen for a specialist Band 5 Occupational Therapist in the Neurology Division within stroke and neurosciences based within Sheffield Teaching Hospitals

The post will rotate across hyperacute, acute stroke, and community based rehabilitation services based in SPARC at Beech Hill and includes integrated ward working, the Community Stroke Service (CSS) and neurosciences wards including critical care.

Our stroke services point of access is via a neurology assessment unit which supports rapid patient assessment and diagnosis and is co-located with a 16 bedded hyperacute service and a 28 bedded acute ward.  Sheffield has an integrated stroke pathway including a 30 bedded off site rehabilitation centre and community stroke services. The neurology and neurosurgery regional wards include 90 beds covering neuro critical care, neurosurgery and neurology. Conditions seen include traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, central nervous system tumours and motor neuron disease

Main duties of the job

This post offers excellent personal and professional development opportunities within well-established services. The post holder will have opportunities to supervise students and to contribute to the development of the service. The post holder will be supported by senior staff to carry a clinical caseload, provide assessment, intervention and discharge planning utilising their clinical reasoning skills. This will include cognitive assessment, and tonal management amongst other core occupational therapy skills.

Candidates will need to demonstrate:

Experience in core areas of occupational therapy including Neurology ensuring a good basic knowledge of occupational therapy practice

Evidence of continuing personal and professional development

Effective interpersonal, communication and team working skills

Strong clinical reasoning skills in assessment and discharge planning

Knowledge of cognitive assessments and treatment planning

Therapy Services provides a number of services over 7 days (including Saturday, Sunday and bank holidays). The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to a seven-day therapy roster.

Candidates must hold a full UK driving licence and access to a car as community working and domiciliary visits are a core component of this role.

Working for our organisation

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.

 

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/Diploma in Occupational Therapy
  • Current HCPC registration

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Preceptorship experience in core areas of Medicine, Orthopaedics and Neurology
  • Demonstrates a clear understanding of the role of acute therapy within the NHS
Desirable criteria
  • Work or life experience in healthcare or teaching practical skills
  • Work or life experience in organising and managing multiple tasks
  • Clinical Governance or Health & Safety

Further Training

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of continuous personal & professional development
  • Good basic knowledge of therapy practice for medicine, orthopaedics, neurology
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence-Based Practice
  • Clinical Governance

Special Skills/Aptitudes

Essential criteria
  • Competency in Occupational Therapy clinical reasoning, processes and practices
  • Effective 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
  • Able to teach and motivate others
  • Calm approach to changing work situations
  • Motivated to learn
Desirable criteria
  • Understanding of therapy in an acute hospital
  • IT literate

Other Factors

Essential criteria
  • Positive attitude to patient care and teamwork
  • Full UK Driving licence
  • Access to car
  • Flexible and reliable approach to working practices

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sarah Leighton
Job title
Clinical Service manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0114 2269115
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