Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist - #1672063

Are you a qualified Occupational Therapist with significant post graduate NHS experience looking for your next career step? Want to enhance your experience and lead clinical OT practice across different patients and care settings in one of the UK's largest hospital Trusts?

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist to work within our Specialised Medicine Therapy team based across the Royal Hallamshire Hospital and Weston Park Hospital.

As a Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist you will work alongside a team of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, and support staff, to deliver high quality care utilising quality improvement and evidence-based healthcare. This will include interventions around early assessment, re-enablement and discharge planning working closely with the MDT and utilising 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 Oncology, Haematology, Urology and Infectious Diseases.

We are looking for someone who has:

• Comprehensive post-registration experience including experience at specialist/senior level within an acute medical/oncology or surgical environment/speciality


• Sound knowledge, skills and experience in the education, training and development of pre-registration and post-registration learners


• Excellent communication and team-working skills


• A commitment to quality improvement, evidence-based healthcare and collective leadership

The role offers the opportunity for an Occupational Therapist to grow their personal and professional development with both breadth and depth across a framework of clinical practice, education, leadership, and quality improvement & research.

There will be opportunities for:

• Supervision and mentorship of Therapy staff


• A variety of teaching/training commitments within the team, division and Acute Therapy Services


• Organisation of service delivery and selected line management responsibilities


• Participation in a range of clinical governance/assurance/management forums

Therapy Services provides a number of services over 7 days (including Saturday, Sunday and bank holidays). Successful candidates may be expected to contribute to these rosters as part of their contracted hours.

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.

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.

• BSc in Occupational Therapy


• Current HCPC Registration


• Postgraduate Masters level module in relevant subject to this post or equivalent knowledge and skills accumulated through formal training and experiential learning

• Extensive experience as a qualified therapist.


• Significant experience at Specialist level in relevant specialty


• Clinical Educator


• Participation in Clinical Audit & Practice Development


• Supervision and line management of Therapy staff including appraisal.


• Professional Presentations


• Experience in emergency respiratory on call including weekend work (PT only).


• Member of Special Interest Group


• Governance


• Teaching

• Evidence of continuous personal & professional development


• Advanced clinical knowledge and skill in specialty


• Knowledge of evidence-base for specialty


• Good basic knowledge of therapy practice for medicine, orthopaedics, neurology


• NVQ Assessor


• Clinical Governance


• Research, Clinical Audit or Practice


• Leadership


• Teaching


• Excellent team working skills and the ability to work collaboratively


• Excellent interpersonal, communication, team working and leadership skills


• Excellent organisational skills, ability to act on own initiative, to prioritise work and manage multiple tasks for self and others.


• Ability to analyse complex problems, formulate solutions and implement sustainable change.


• Confident in working with a wide range of senior professionals


• Able to maintain confidentiality


• IT literate


• Understanding of stress and ability to help others to cope under pressure.

• Flexible and reliable approach to working practices


• Mature and positive attitude to change management


• Proactive approach to service delivery

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.

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£46,148 to £52,809 a year pa/pro rata for part time staff