Employer Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Town Sheffield Salary £31,049 - £37,796 pa/pro rata for part time staff Salary period Yearly Closing 09/11/2025 23:59 Interview date 17/11/2025
Static Occupational Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 5
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for a specialist Band 5 Occupational Therapist in the Neurology Division within stroke and neurosciences based within Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
The post will rotate across hyperacute, acute stroke, and community based rehabilitation services based in SPARC at Beech Hill and includes integrated ward working, the Community Stroke Service (CSS) and neurosciences wards including critical care.
Our stroke services point of access is via a neurology assessment unit which supports rapid patient assessment and diagnosis and is co-located with a 16 bedded hyperacute service and a 28 bedded acute ward. Sheffield has an integrated stroke pathway including a 30 bedded off site rehabilitation centre and community stroke services. The neurology and neurosurgery regional wards include 90 beds covering neuro critical care, neurosurgery and neurology. Conditions seen include traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, central nervous system tumours and motor neuron disease
Main duties of the job
This post offers excellent personal and professional development opportunities within well-established services. The post holder will have opportunities to supervise students and to contribute to the development of the service. The post holder will be supported by senior staff to carry a clinical caseload, provide assessment, intervention and discharge planning utilising their clinical reasoning skills. This will include cognitive assessment, and tonal management amongst other core occupational therapy skills.
Candidates will need to demonstrate:
Experience in core areas of occupational therapy including Neurology ensuring a good basic knowledge of occupational therapy practice
Evidence of continuing personal and professional development
Effective interpersonal, communication and team working skills
Strong clinical reasoning skills in assessment and discharge planning
Knowledge of cognitive assessments and treatment planning
Therapy Services provides a number of services over 7 days (including Saturday, Sunday and bank holidays). The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to a seven-day therapy roster.
Candidates must hold a full UK driving licence and access to a car as community working and domiciliary visits are a core component of this role.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
* BsC/Diploma in Occupational Therapy
* Current HCPC registration
Experience
* Preceptorship experience in core areas of Medicine, Orthopaedics and Neurology
* Demonstrates a clear understanding of the role of acute therapy within the NHS
* Work or life experience in healthcare or teaching practical skills
* Work or life experience in organising and managing multiple tasks
Further Training
o Evidence of continuous personal & professional development
o Good basic knowledge of therapy practice for medicine, orthopaedics, neurology
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Other Factors
o Positive attitude to patient care and teamwork
o Full UK Driving licence
o Access to car
o Flexible and reliable approach to working practices
Please note that in order to comply with the UK Government’s rules on Skilled Worker sponsorship, any applicants who do not meet the eligibility requirements or concessions on salary thresholds under the Skilled Worker visa will not be eligible to receive sponsorship from the Trust. Please keep this in mind when submitting your application. Further details on these concessions, and who qualifies for them, can be found here .
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The Trust is committed to its obligations in accordance with the Equality Act 2010, and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Should you require any assistance in applying for the position please contact the General or Medical Human Resources Departments on the number identified on the NHS Jobs page for the organisation.
Job Share applicants are welcome for all full time posts unless indicated but cannot be guaranteed. In addition for Fixed Term Contracts, internal secondments may be considered, please seek the approval of your current line manager before applying for the position.
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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.
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