Employer Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Town Sheffield Salary £47,810 - £54,710 pa/pro rata for part time staff Salary period Yearly Closing 28/12/2025 23:59 Interview date 12/01/2026
Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist Upper Limb Amputees
NHS AfC: Band 7
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
We are looking for an experienced and motivated Band 7 Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist to work in our Mobility and Specialised Rehabilitation Centre, providing care to paediatric amputees and adult upper limb amputees.
The department is a regional centre for children and adults with congenital, acquired and traumatic upper limb amputation.
You will be working alongside physiotherapists, consultants and prothetists in conjunction with families, GPs and schools.
Main duties of the job
As a clinical specialist Occupational Therapist, you will:
Lead in providing specialist training to patients for all types of upper limb prostheses, including myo-electric single grip and multi articulating hand prostheses.
Provide high quality therapy in the rehabilitation of upper limb amputees, including veterans
Attend the children’s clinic supporting an MDT approach to treatment and care
Co-ordinate the long term management of paediatric patients and develop links and transition services with the children’s hospital
Organise home, school and work visits to support patients’ treatment
Utilise links with regional and national services, gaining peer support with other specialists in the field.
Act as the child safeguarding lead within MSRC and provide a point of contact for paediatric amputees
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 employees. 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 in Occupational Therapy.
* Current HCPC Registration.
* Postgraduate Masters level module in relevant subject to this post or equivalent knowledge and skills accumulated through formal training and experiential learning.
* Master’s degree in relevant Speciality.
Experience
* Extensive experience as a qualified therapist.
* Significant experience at Specialist level in relevant specialty.
* Clinical Educator.
* Participation in Clinical Audit & Practice Development.
* Supervision and line management of Therapy staff including appraisal.
* Professional Presentations.
* Member of Special Interest Group.
* Governance.
* Teaching.
Further Training
* Evidence of continuous personal & professional development.
* Current advanced clinical knowledge and skill in specialty.
* Current knowledge of evidence-base for specialty.
* Good basic knowledge of therapy practice for medicine, orthopaedics, neurology
* Clinical Governance.
* Research, Clinical Audit or Practice.
* Leadership.
* NVQ Assessor.
Special Skills
* Excellent team working skills and the ability to work collaboratively.
* Excellent interpersonal, communication, team working and leadership skills.
* Excellent organisational skills, ability to act on own initiative, to prioritise work and manage multiple tasks for self and other.
* Ability to analyse complex problems, formulate solutions and implement sustainable change.
* Confident in working with a wide range of senior professionals.
* Able to maintain confidentiality.
* IT literate.
* Understanding of stress and ability to help others to cope under pressure.
Other Factors
* Flexible and reliable approach to working practices.
* Mature and positive attitude to change management.
* Proactive approach to service delivery.
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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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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