We are looking for an enthusiastic Senior Therapy Technical Instructor to join Medical Therapies at Royal Stoke University Hospital, working within the Palliative Care/Renal Therapies Team. This is a permanent position, working 37.5 hours per week. The post will involve working alongside a therapies team but managing an independent caseload providing assessment, delivering palliative rehabilitation care, discharge planning, onward referral & equipment provision throughout our patients’ rehabilitative pathway. Therefore, the applicant should have an awareness of rehabilitation and discharge planning. This Senior Therapy Technical Instructor post is clinical but will also have a leadership role to support and develop the band 3 therapy technicians as well as our apprenticeship staff. Training is provided to help support with these developments. Supervision will be provided by the Band 6/7 Occupational Therapist/Physiotherapist and continuous professional development is supported through appraisal and internal and external training. Therapy Services work within a 7 day shift system therefore the post holder will be required to work as part of the weekend, late shift and bank holiday rotas. The UHNM NHS Trust covers Royal Stoke Hospital in Stoke on Trent and County Hospital in Stafford. Royal Stoke a large acute teaching hospital, with a Turnover of £360 million. Located in Stoke on Trent and Stafford, UHNM is close to the M6, within commuting distance of culturally diverse major conurbations, such as Manchester and Birmingham and surrounded by rural pleasures, including the Peak District National Park. Each year Royal Stoke cares for over 600,000 people providing emergency treatment, planned operations and medical care. It is a leading teaching hospital in partnership with Keele University and has a patient-centred clinical research facility providing state-of-the-art facilities. Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff is really important to us. We offer a range of options for our staff to help maintain a good work-life balance including full time, part time hours and bank hours. We are also committed to offering flexible working wherever we can and where relevant to the role and the service, agile working. You can select your preferences upon application For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Clare Johnson Job title: Interim Divisional Therapy Manager Email address: clare.johnson@uhnm.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01782 675341