Employer Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site National Rehabilitation Centre Town Loughborough Salary £38,682 - £46,580 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 12/10/2025 23:59
NRC Specialist Occupational Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
The NRC will be a new, purpose-built 70-bed facility which will be on the Stanford Hall Rehabilitation Estate near Loughborough, delivering a centre of excellence to improve rehabilitation services in England.
It is co-located with the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre and will share some of the world class rehabilitation facilities. With strong academic partnerships, research and innovation and training and education in rehabilitation will be embedded at the NRC and central to clinical practice.
We are looking for an ambitious and dedicated highly specialist occupational therapist to join this journey to rehabilitation excellence, transforming outcomes for patients. The post holder will provide an effective specialist service in complex rehabilitation including assessment and advice/treatment, as well as contributing to the NRC’s national ambition of training, education, research and innovation.
You will work with and be supported by Highly Specialist OT colleagues within complex rehabilitation. This will include providing education and training, liaising across the specialty teams, with Therapy colleagues and wider multi-disciplinary teams within NUH, NRC and regionally.
This role will be permanently based at the NRC which plans to open in late Autumn 2025.
Main duties of the job
Please familiarise yourself with the full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.
Working for our organisation
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please familiarise yourself with the full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.
Person specification
Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
* Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s "We are here for you" behavioural standards
Training and Qualifications
* Diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy
* Health Care Professional Council registration as an Occupational Therapist
* Able to maintain a professional portfolio for CPD, recording learning outcomes through participation in internal and external development opportunities
* Evidence of post qualification training and development in neurological/complex rehabilitation
Experience
* Experience of working with a wide variety of patients in either an acute or rehabilitation in-patient setting or the community
* Experience of working with patients who require a permanent wheelchair, including assessment of postural and pressure needs
* Experience of using evidenced based practice to inform own practice and that of others
* Experience of being a supervisee and supervisor
* Experience of being an appraisee and appraiser
* Experience of delegation and contributing to the operational management of the team
* Experience of delegating to and supervising therapy support workers
* Experience of contributing to the clinical education of less experienced staff or undergraduate OT students
* Knowledge of national and local standards and RCOT guidelines.
* Experience of keyboard skills and using basic IT eg. Internet, Word, Outlook
* Experience of contributing to service development
* Experience of involvement in change management
* Previous NHS experience
Communication and Relationship Skills
* Able to discuss treatment options and recommend best course of intervention to patients and carers using negotiating, persuasive, motivational and reassurance skills
* Able to effectively use a range of written and verbal and non-verbal communication skills with patients to progress rehabilitation and treatment programmes. This will include patients who may have difficulties in understanding or communicating eg. patients may be dysphasic, deaf, who may be unable to accept diagnosis or have terminal illness
* Able to demonstrate a commitment to team working
* Able to communicate patient related information effectively to ensure collaborative working with MDT colleagues across health & social care sectors.
* Able to maintain accurate and comprehensive patient treatment records in line with Trust standards, departmental standards and COT Standards of Practice
Analytical and Judgement Skills
* Able to reflect and critically appraise own performance and the performance of junior OT staff and support staff
* Risk assessment skills for the safe management and discharge of complex patients
* Independently work through the OT process with complex patients.
Planning and Organisation Skills
* Able to plan own clinical activity to meet clinical needs of patients when demand exceeds capacity
* Able to make judgements about the prioritising of caseloads when demand exceeds capacity and to support junior and support staff in this process
Physical Skills
* Able to handle and move complex patients safely and in a way which promotes rehabilitation
Other requirements specific to the role (eg be able to drive or work shifts)
* Flexibility to work elsewhere in Therapies or as required across all NUH campuses.
* Flexible working schedules including participation in weekend and bank holiday rosters as required.
___________________________________________________________________________________
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Applicants are kindly requested to refrain from using AI at any stage during the recruitment process.
Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.
Communication: All communication related to your application will be via the email address you have provided. Please ensure you check your email account including your junk email regularly.
NUH are now able to offer application completion support and interview preparation support. Please follow the link to book onto our sessions: Support for NUH Job Applications
If you are aged 16 or 17 and applying for a role that is more than 20 hours a week, please be aware that you will be asked to commence an Apprenticeship within the Trust alongside your role, as long as there is a suitable apprenticeship standard available. This is in line with the current guidance in England that whilst young people under the age of 18 can leave school (on the last Friday in June) they must then do one of the following:
* Stay in full-time education, for example at a college
* Start an Apprenticeship
* Spend 20 hours of more a week working or volunteering, while in part-time education or training
Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.
Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.
At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.
ID and Right to work checks : NUH authenticate ID and right to work documentation including passports and driving licenses through a system called Trust ID. NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation in to the Trust ID system at your face to face ID appointment. The system will run a check against the key security features within your documentation. The system will provide us with an outcome of your check which will be stored securely on your personal file along with all other pre-employment check documentation.
Consent:
* Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Departmentconfidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
* Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post maybe subject to a DBS check which incur a cost dependent on the level of check required (£49.50 for enhanced and £21.50 for standard). I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if it is required (by deduction from first month’s pay). Should I decide to withdraw from my job offer, I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of the DBS check undertaken by cheque or other agreed method.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
#J-18808-Ljbffr