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Senior occupational therapist

Mansfield
NHS
Occupational therapist
Posted: 9 July
Offer description

Job summary

Exciting Opportunity: Occupational Therapist - Sherwood Rehabilitation Team!

Are you a compassionate, creative, and highly motivated Occupational Therapist ready to take the next step in your career? We're looking for someone just like you to join our dynamic Sherwood Rehabilitation Team.

Why Join Us?

* Be part of a proactive, supportive team committed to delivering outstanding care
* Work across both clinic and community settings in Mansfield, Ashfield, and surrounding areas
* Use your clinical problem-solving skills to make a real difference in patients' lives

We're passionate about providing excellent outcomes--and we're looking for someone who shares that passion.

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.

Details Date posted

03 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

214-CSTO-7274130

Job locations

Mansfield Community Hospital

Stockwell Gate

Mansfield

NG18 5QJ


Job description Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9 th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Job description Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9 th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Person Specification Knowledge Essential
* Sound Clinical knowledge of core conditions and applied therapy techniques
* Ability to prioritise & work under pressure
* Delegation skills
* Excellent communication skills (verbal & written)
* As an autonomous practitioner, is able to work as a team member as well as alone but with access to more senior colleague
* IT skills - basic
* Knowledge of NHS procedures, policies and guidelines
* Ability to formulate and develop specialised individual treatment programmes and ability in using clinical reasoning skills based on current best practice
Qualifications Essential
* BSc (Hons) or Graduate Diploma in Physiotherapy / Occupational Therapy or equivalent
* Registration with HCPC
* Membership of relevant Professional Body
* Evidence of experience in the form of an up to date professional development portfolio
Further Training Essential
* Attendance at relevant clinical post graduate courses taught often at modular Masters level and relevant to all core specialities
* Practice Placement Educators training / clinical supervisors training
Desirable
* Leadership Training
Experience Essential
* NHS experience
* Completion of junior and senior Rotational Programmes (minimum of 18 months in each), or equivalent, working in a wide variety of acute and chronic physical settings
* Experience of working with a variety of therapeutic approaches
* Experience of audit and service review
* Experience of supervising other staff and students
* Evidence of contribution to clinical education of less experienced staff, assistants and students
Contractual Requirements Essential
* Ability to travel between all hospital sites and community settings
Desirable
* Ability to drive/Car Driver
Person Specification Knowledge Essential
* Sound Clinical knowledge of core conditions and applied therapy techniques
* Ability to prioritise & work under pressure
* Delegation skills
* Excellent communication skills (verbal & written)
* As an autonomous practitioner, is able to work as a team member as well as alone but with access to more senior colleague
* IT skills - basic
* Knowledge of NHS procedures, policies and guidelines
* Ability to formulate and develop specialised individual treatment programmes and ability in using clinical reasoning skills based on current best practice
Qualifications Essential
* BSc (Hons) or Graduate Diploma in Physiotherapy / Occupational Therapy or equivalent
* Registration with HCPC
* Membership of relevant Professional Body
* Evidence of experience in the form of an up to date professional development portfolio
Further Training Essential
* Attendance at relevant clinical post graduate courses taught often at modular Masters level and relevant to all core specialities
* Practice Placement Educators training / clinical supervisors training
Desirable
* Leadership Training
Experience Essential
* NHS experience
* Completion of junior and senior Rotational Programmes (minimum of 18 months in each), or equivalent, working in a wide variety of acute and chronic physical settings
* Experience of working with a variety of therapeutic approaches
* Experience of audit and service review
* Experience of supervising other staff and students
* Evidence of contribution to clinical education of less experienced staff, assistants and students
Contractual Requirements Essential
* Ability to travel between all hospital sites and community settings
Desirable
* Ability to drive/Car Driver
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).

Employer details Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Mansfield Community Hospital

Stockwell Gate

Mansfield

NG18 5QJ


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Mansfield Community Hospital

Stockwell Gate

Mansfield

NG18 5QJ


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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