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University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust

Senior Therapy Technical Instructor

The closing date is 04 August 2025

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Job summary

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

About us

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

Details

Date posted

21 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£27,485 to £30,162 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

205-7337530

Job locations

Royal Stoke

Newcastle Road

Stoke-on-Trent

ST4 6QG


Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information on this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification or contact the Hiring Manager.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information on this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification or contact the Hiring Manager.

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

  • GCSE English Grade C/4 and above or equivalent or evidence of good literacy
  • GCSE Maths Grade C/4 and above or equivalent or evidence of good numeracy
  • Meets competency framework for Technical Instructor Band 3 specific to work area

Desirable

  • GCSE Science's Grade C/4 and above
  • A Level/NVQ Qualification

Experience

Essential

  • High level of background working in Therapies as a Therapies Technical Instructor

Desirable

  • Acute hospital experiece

Skills, Ability & Knowledge

Essential

  • Ability to support own development

Desirable

  • Experience of supervising staff
Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

  • GCSE English Grade C/4 and above or equivalent or evidence of good literacy
  • GCSE Maths Grade C/4 and above or equivalent or evidence of good numeracy
  • Meets competency framework for Technical Instructor Band 3 specific to work area

Desirable

  • GCSE Science's Grade C/4 and above
  • A Level/NVQ Qualification

Experience

Essential

  • High level of background working in Therapies as a Therapies Technical Instructor

Desirable

  • Acute hospital experiece

Skills, Ability & Knowledge

Essential

  • Ability to support own development

Desirable

  • Experience of supervising staff

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust

Address

Royal Stoke

Newcastle Road

Stoke-on-Trent

ST4 6QG


Employer's website

https://www.uhnm.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust

Address

Royal Stoke

Newcastle Road

Stoke-on-Trent

ST4 6QG


Employer's website

https://www.uhnm.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Interim Divisional Therapy Manager

Clare Johnson

clare.johnson@uhnm.nhs.uk

01782675341

Details

Date posted

21 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£27,485 to £30,162 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

205-7337530

Job locations

Royal Stoke

Newcastle Road

Stoke-on-Trent

ST4 6QG


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