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Specialist Occupational Therapist for Critical Care
The closing date is 30 July 2025
Exciting Opportunity: Occupational Therapist - Critical Care, King's Mill Hospital!
Are you a passionate and forward-thinking Occupational Therapist ready to make a real impact? We're thrilled to offer abrand-new rolewithin our Critical Care team atKing's Mill Hospital, part of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
This is a unique opportunity topioneer and shape the Occupational Therapy servicein Critical Care--an evolving area that's vital to patient recovery and rehabilitation. You'll be at the forefront of developing innovative approaches to care, working closely with a multidisciplinary team to support some of our most complex patients.
We're looking for someone who is:
* Motivated and innovative, with a drive to lead change.
* Passionate about rehabilitation, especially in the management of delirium and complex needs in intensive care.
* Acollaborative team player, eager to contribute to service development and patient-centred care.
Join us in this exciting phase of growth and help us deliver outstanding care where it's needed most!
Main duties of the job
The role will involve conducting individualised assessments of patients, addressing needs such as: Hand dexterity, Feeding, Personal care, Splinting, Cognitive assessments, Anxiety management, Pacing.
You will be expected to work independently, providing high quality, advanced therapeutic assessments, managing patients with diverse presentations, and complex physical and psychological problems.Participating in working across both ICU/HDU.
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.
Job responsibilities
To see the full detailed job description and main responsibilities of the job please refer the job description attached.
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:
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Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9th 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
Qualifications
* Degree in Occupational Therapy, BSc(Hons) or Graduate Diploma in Occupational Therapy.
* HPC State Registration.
* Membership of the College of Occupational Therapy
* Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio, including attendance at post graduate courses relevant to the clinical field
* Membership of a professional special interest group
Experience
* Postgraduate clinical experience
* Experience of working in the NHS
* Experience of supervising junior staff and occupational therapy students
* Evidence of contributing to clinical audit
* Teaching within the speciality
* Leadership
Knowledge
* High level of clinical skills and theoretical knowledge of occupational therapy techniques
* Excellent interpersonal skills
* Supervisory skills
* Able to work within a team independently
* Ability to pass on skills and knowledge to others
* Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate
* Effective communication skills; both oral and written
* Ability to keep accurate and legible patient records
* Able to provide and receive complex and/or sensitive information
* Remain updated with professional practice and new research
* Knowledge of clinical governance and its application to occupational therapy
* Familiarity with evidence-based research that underpins amputee care
* Ability to teach in a group setting / knowledge and understanding of group dynamics
* Awareness of local, regional and national healthcare priorities.
Further
* Evidence of attendance at specialist postgraduate courses
* Evidence of CPD
* Leadership training
* Undertaken the clinical student supervisor's course
Contractual requirements
* Ability to travel between hospital sites
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.
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
£47,810 to £54,710 a yearper annum pro rata
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