Job summary
Sherwood Forest Hospitals are looking to recruit a Senior Occupational Therapist to join the Urgent and Emergency Care Therapy Team. The team work in a fast paced environment, preventing admissions to the hospital, supporting with complex discharges and working within the Frailty Intervention Team. The team covers the Emergency Department, Emergency Assessment Unit and the Short Stay Ward. Within your role you will support Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists, be a student educator, complete supervision with the Band 5 OTs and help with the day to day running of the team. You will be encouraged to work on service development projects as we strive to continually improve the team for the patients, the service we provide and for the team. The team covers a seven day service, working between 8-7. There is an expectation that everyone will work a weekend a month and their fair share of the bank holidays throughout the year. Apply now to join our team!
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
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 make sure that every 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.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- Sound Clinical knowledge of medical conditions and applied occupational therapy techniques
- Ability to prioritise & work under pressure
- Delegation skills
- Excellent communication skills (verbal & written)
- Ability to work as a team member as well as alone but with access to more senior colleague
- IT skills
- Knowledge of NHS procedures, policies and guidelines
- Ability to formulate and develop specialised individual treatment programmes and ability in using clinical reasoning skills
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc (Hons) or Graduate Diploma in Occupational Therapy or equivalent
- Registration with HCPC
Desirable
- Membership of the College of Occupational Therapists
Further Training
Essential
- Attendance at relevant clinical post graduate courses taught often at modular Masters level
- Practice Placement Educators training
Desirable
- APPLE Accreditation training
Experience
Essential
- Completion of postgraduate junior rotation to include a rotation in medicine
- Broad understanding of occupational therapy process and frameworks.
- Experience of audit and service review
- Experience of supervising other staff and/or students
- NHS experience including knowledge of policies and procedures
Desirable
- Evidence of contribution to clinical education of less experienced staff, assistants and students
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Flexible working, including 7 day working which will include late shifts
Desirable
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- Sound Clinical knowledge of medical conditions and applied occupational therapy techniques
- Ability to prioritise & work under pressure
- Delegation skills
- Excellent communication skills (verbal & written)
- Ability to work as a team member as well as alone but with access to more senior colleague
- IT skills
- Knowledge of NHS procedures, policies and guidelines
- Ability to formulate and develop specialised individual treatment programmes and ability in using clinical reasoning skills
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc (Hons) or Graduate Diploma in Occupational Therapy or equivalent
- Registration with HCPC
Desirable
- Membership of the College of Occupational Therapists
Further Training
Essential
- Attendance at relevant clinical post graduate courses taught often at modular Masters level
- Practice Placement Educators training
Desirable
- APPLE Accreditation training
Experience
Essential
- Completion of postgraduate junior rotation to include a rotation in medicine
- Broad understanding of occupational therapy process and frameworks.
- Experience of audit and service review
- Experience of supervising other staff and/or students
- NHS experience including knowledge of policies and procedures
Desirable
- Evidence of contribution to clinical education of less experienced staff, assistants and students
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Flexible working, including 7 day working which will include late shifts
Desirable
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
